Recs if you like Tastes Like Candy...

all things summer and horror from slashers to summer camp and your favorite local faire.

It's super hot outside and you're in the mood for summer slasher books and/or a lowkey mysterious fall vibe just like in the Gravity Falls summerween episode? Then this list is for YOU. 🙂‍↕️ Feel free to comment your own recs, I'll add those. 🫶🏻

Pastels, lip gloss, and blood. This list features bubblegum horror stories that mix girly, candy coloured aesthetics with psychological terror, body horror, and chaotic feminine rage.

Bright sun, bad decisions, and something already in the woods.

Skin burning. Air too heavy. Summer lasting too long. ☀️

Beach houses with doors that jam. Rentals that were always a red flag. Footsteps that don't match anyone inside. Slasher chaos, slow dread, or almost playful, until it's not.

Your summerween you're looking for is here, welcome 🎃🔪🥂

Collection of slasher books!

Some will involve the supernatural, some are from the POV of survivors and others from the killer

I love whimsy and books around a circus (or circus adjacent vibes like whimsical carnivals, festivals, etc)

Slasher - a subgenre of horror involving a killer or a group of killers stalking and murdering a group of people, often by use of bladed or sharp tools.

This is a big list of (almost) all slasher books (only first books in a series). As long as there is a killer(s), victims and blood, it counts!

A list of cozy and spooky Halloween reads, from graphic novels to dark romance. Something for everyone.

Books of people who die because they go or do something they know they probably shouldn't be doing.

Serial killers Creatures Supernatural

Happy to take any suggestions.