Category: Horror

Girls Against God – Jenny Hval

Posted on April 1, 2026 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel Described as a radical fusion of feminist theory and experimental horror, Girls Against God is a stream of consciousness narrative on censorship, magic, gender, art and rebellion against power systems. I don’t know why I feel I have to… Continue Reading “Girls Against God – Jenny Hval”

Category: Art, Coming of Age, Experimental fiction, Faith & Religion, Feminism, Horror, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Queer, Surreal, TranslatedTags:

The Empusium – Olga Tokarczuk

Posted on February 26, 2025 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at the Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen but discovers there are many mysterious goings on, involving deaths, misogyny and the occult. Set in a Polish sanatorium in 1913, The Empusium blends horror,… Continue Reading “The Empusium – Olga Tokarczuk”

Category: Allegory, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Feminism, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror, Humour, Literary fiction, Mthyical/folklore, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Queer, Satire, Surreal, TranslatedTags:

Bunny – Mona Awad

Posted on June 26, 2024 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Suzy Samantha Heather Mackey is a loner in her fiction writing class at Warren University. When she is befriended by a group of girls known as the bunnies she can’t help but be attracted to their Smut Salon clique, despite… Continue Reading “Bunny – Mona Awad”

Category: Absurdist, Horror, Literary fiction, Unreliable Narrator

Tender Is The Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica

Posted on August 10, 2023 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel Dystopian fiction about a world where humans are farmed for meat after animals become diseased and unfit for consumption. Told through the eyes of Marcos, a slaughterhouse official, who is disgusted at what society has become but remains stuck… Continue Reading “Tender Is The Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica”

Category: Dystopian, Horror, Translated

The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters

Posted on October 8, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON The Little Stranger is a mixed genre story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s. It features a country doctor who calls on an old family of declining fortunes who own the old estate that is crumbling… Continue Reading “The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters”

Category: Booker Prize, Family drama, Ghost story, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Political, Psychological, UK author, Unreliable NarratorTags: ,

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