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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
Listicles

The Chill Quill: August Brings the Heat … and the Horror

Summer may be winding down, but horror is heating up — and this month’s offerings are proof that nothing pairs better with late-season dread than a dash of madness, obsession, and the occasional missing husband. From cursed cookbooks to cosmic king, apocalyptic odds to haunted retreats, these terrifying new releases…
Lindy Ryan
August 12, 2025
September 2025 Chill QuillListicles

The Chill Quill: Books to Haunt You This Spooky Season

As summer slips into shadow, spooky season kicks off with 13 brand new titles that delve into haunted homes, cursed families, buried secrets and parasitic hunger. Whether you’re drawn to the sun-scorched deserts of trauma recovery, the bloodstained walls of a childhood home or the cultish corners of a doomed…
Lindy Ryan
September 16, 2025
July 2025 Chill QuillListicles

The Chill Quill: Summer Reads That Will Chill You to the Bone

Summer’s thermostat may be soaring, but July’s new releases are here to bring the spine-tingling chill back to your beach chair. Whether you’re sneaking away for late-night reads or treating yourself to a poolside gasp, from dark academia to folk horror and multigenerational sagas, first-time collector’s editions to murderous and…
Lindy Ryan
July 14, 2025
Listicles

The Chill Quill: Beach Reads with a Body Count

Summer book season is officially here! Whether you’re basking on the beach, romping under the sun outdoors with friends, or hiding inside with the air conditioning, from murderous train rides to tragic retellings and summertime shenanigans, this month’s new releases are guaranteed to keep your pulse racing and skin burning.
Lindy Ryan
June 17, 2025
Miscellany

Scare Up Your Summer with BookTrib Lit Picks

Whether you’re looking for refuge from broiling summer temps or (like me) celebrating the Summer Solstice by starting the countdown to Spooky Season, summertime is the perfect time to cut your teeth on new reads. Whether you’re finally cracking open your TBR or on the hunt for a new book…
Lindy Ryan
July 8, 2024
MiscellanyThrillers

Horror Bites: The Appeal of the Short Story

It’s long been said that the short story is the purest form of horror. Whether you agree with the sentiment or not, many horror readers meet the genre in the form of short stories: oral tales told around campfires or at bedtime; spooky, visual anthology programs; or perhaps a short…
Lindy Ryan
May 29, 2024
Miscellany

Celebrate Mother’s Day with Women in Horror

From Rosemary’s Baby to Psycho, mothers — and terrifying depictions of everything motherhood — have long been a staple of the horror genre. And for good reason: mothers wield tremendous power. A mother can calm or cut, harm or heal, nurture or needle. Sometimes, she is the savior tucking us…
Lindy Ryan
May 10, 2024
Miscellany

Poetry Isn’t Just for National Poetry Month

Along with April’s showers comes National Poetry Month, a month-long celebration that “celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that poetry matters.” Since its inception in April 1996, National Poetry Month has grown to become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of poetry aficionados…
Lindy Ryan
April 30, 2024