Recs if you like The Lighthouse Witches...

Inspired by the sea fog, whistling winds, and the dark sea crashing against the rocks in summer

I love a spooky lighthouse. Lighthouse-related horror, thriller and generally dark fiction. Especially good to read by a window during a storm.

Fiction with witches — their stories , origins or their general rise to power. I intended the mood to be quite a bit darker when making this list, and will pull from mostly elaborate fantastical worlds — morally obscure, villainous, heroic and everything in between.

Your essential handbooks to witchery and eldritch horrors

All things witchy and wonderful. Spooky, cozy or otherwise. Throw in some witchy non-fiction for good measure.

Suggestions encouraged! Always looking for more witchy books.

Books that remind me of Mulder and Scully and their wild x-file hunting days. Suggestions welcome. I’m forever chasing that high.

Books set in/around Scotland. Highlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, outer islands, etc.

if you’re craving something that feels like the next martha’s vineyard (iykyk)! books that evoke the same feeling as the magnificent tv show ‘widows bay’

thrillers (potentially horrors as well) featuring the paranormal - ghosts and ghouls, psychic powers, things that are not able to be explained the way Scooby Doo and the gang do, by pulling the mask off a creepy dude.

Fiction set entirely or primarily on the islands of Scotland (Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and others)

Open to recs

Stories by Scottish authors/about Scotland- complied for you by a central belt lassie

Books about lighthouses or books where lighthouses are relevant in some way. (Please let me know if you have any suggestions :) )

Circled by treacherous seas and liminal shores, magic ebbs—dances—shimmers in everyday island life…

Spooky vibes, dark academia vibes, witchy vibes

Witch lit. Maybe with a tinge of romance. Always open to more recs that fit this theme!

There’s a witch in you. Magical cunning woman. Innocent victim blamed. Be it folklore, history, fantasy, or dangerous injustice - pick up a book and tell your inner witch a devilishly good tale…

Fiction books that outright tackle misogyny, or have feminist undertones. For every reader out there who's tired of being met with toxic/misogynist behaviour in stories that is presented as acceptable, or even romantic, and those who want to learn about the female perspective. (For more horrory books, see my list "Feminist Horror", for YA, see my list "Feminist YA".)

Fiction books set in Scotland

Open to recs!!

Perfect books to read by the Gulf of St. Lawrence.