Recs if you like Salt & Broom...

A list for books based on the works of other writers (or: authors copying each other’s homework 🙂‍↕️). Suggestions welcome!

We all love gothic classics, but what is new when it comes to the gothic genre (from the last 20 years or so)?! For fans of Dracula, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, etc. Please comment with suggestions to add!

Do you like your witches as the protoganist rather than the villian? Do you have Pinterest Boards where you save the decor from the sets of Practical Magic and Charmed? Do like your seances with a side of cinnamon? Save this list for all the cosy horror and fantasy witch reccomendations that feel like hot chocolate, warm hugs and MAGIC🖤🔮 And make sure to comment any you feel fit the breif!

Possibly TBR and my finished book. A low cortisol bed time story. Feel free to suggest your books! 🥰

Created from the list on Goodreads by Cybil and Sadie Hartmann (September 29, 2025)

Birds on the cover. Why do they all creep me out so much? Extra points if they’re weird/creepy.

Please feel free to add your suggestions/recommendations!

Any story in a Victorian-type setting that features supernaturals and an emphasis on magic over tech

Fiction and non-

Retellings of the classic Charlotte Brontë novel.

recommendations for a fall tbr

This is a list of horror books written by women, as recommended by Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) in her book Feral and Hysterical. I highly recommend that you pick up a copy of Feral and Hysterical because it is so much more than a list of books. There are more lists of books, but also thoughtful essays by women writers. It's worth spending some time with Feral and Hysterical.

"Women are overqualified to write fictional horror. Period." -- Sadie Hartmann

Black Phillip's tbr (Also let me know ones to add - I'd love some recs)

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