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The Chill Quill: 2025 Favorites

As the nights grow colder and the year winds down, I’m revisiting some of my favorite reads from this year’s New Releases. From ghost-soaked hotels to cursed legacies, witchy teens to viral monsters and even a nefarious cheesecake murder, these were the books that stuck with me long after the…
Lindy Ryan
December 17, 2025
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5 Spellbinding Reads for Fans of Wicked

Rejoicify, it's time to return to Oz! As you prepare to walk down the Yellow Brick Road, dive into one of these thrillifying reads, perfect for any fans of Wicked! From stories of witches and friendship to tales that will make you question who the real villain is, these books…
BookTrib
November 19, 2025
Thrillers

Riley Sager on Summer Camp and Stephen King

Last year, there was one book at the top of everyone's must-read list: Riley Sager's Final Girls, which was so good, Stephen King himself called it "The first great thriller of 2017." If that's not proof enough that Sager knows his way around the thriller, then just know that his follow up…
BookTrib
July 3, 2018
Thrillers

Ten’s Gretchen McNeil: How to Make Serial Killers Fun

Gretchen McNeil is not only an incredibly talented author, she's also a professionally trained opera singer, a natural performer, and one of the nicest people we've ever met. The hit YA author is probably best known for her book Ten, which won numerous awards before being turned into a Lifetime original…
BookTrib
July 12, 2018
Listicles

Seasonal Affective Disorder, But Make It Literary

Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, marking the beginning of the dreaded dark winter months. Ready to embrace the lack of light with reads that are just as brutal as a 4 PM sunset? If you’re looking to curb seasonal affective disorder as much as one can, consider embracing the…
Cameron Kimball
October 29, 2025
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Aunt Libra Does the Monster Mash

Darlings! It’s that time of year when everyone does the monster mash. Every Samhain, my papery abode is full of callers of the monstrous persuasion as we prepare for the All Hallow’s Ball. I love an evening of costumed couture! It’s terribly hard to outdo the Goblin King at these…
Aunt Libra
October 29, 2025
Listicles

The Chill Quill: Halloween’s Most Horrifying Horror

It’s the spookiest month of spooky season, and this month’s picks are all about horror in its finest forms — ghost girls in cursed homes, sisters wrapped in secrets and botanical estates blooming with forbidden love and buried rot. From queer retellings to murderous hauntings, demonic demons and blood-soaked culinary…
Lindy Ryan
October 15, 2025
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6 Werewolf Books to Sink Your Teeth Into

There’s something about a werewolf story that never lets go. Maybe it’s the thrill of the hunt — raw, animal instinct clawing just beneath the skin. Maybe it’s the fragile balance between human and beast. Or maybe it’s the way these stories dig into identity, control and the wildness we…
BookTrib
October 14, 2025
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Lit Picks: 7 Haunting Spooky Season Reads

The following books don’t care if you survive. They tear through your head, leave you questioning what’s real and what isn’t, and they don’t let go. Fantasy hits with grit and blood, sci-fi scrambles your sense of everything, horror crawls under your skin and stays. You’ll find mirrors that lie,…
BookTrib
September 11, 2025
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Eight Horror Books That Are Perfect For Spooky Season

How can one describe Spooky Season?  To start with, well, Halloween, of course. October vibes filled with grinning, flickering jack o’ lanterns, decorative spiderwebs strewn across the aged pillars of a porch, and cardboard skeletons taped to front doors. But it’s more than just one night of candy-filled pillowcases and…
Philip Fracassi
October 6, 2025