Recs if you like Red Rabbit...

There will be no one breasting boobily anywhere here.

Some criteria:

• women characters should be multidimensional with their own goals, agendas, and flaws
• the main character should be a woman, and there should be at least one other female character who is significant to the plot
• women characters’ role should not be defined solely by her relationship to a man
• author is a cis man
• one book per author

Let’s hold male authors to a higher standard because it is possible.

Westerns mixed with horror, sci-fi, and/or fantasy

the people of this town love halloween so much they celebrate it twice a year

Historical horror fantasy because I like to be self-indulgent :) Feel free to recommend some!

sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.

this is a collection of books that contain more stories within their stories, almost like an endless corridor of doors that lead to more doors or an infinite matryoshka doll
(always open to suggestions!!)

Books in which the audiobook narrator serenades you by singing an in story song.

Everything under the high sun, from monsters and mayhem to hauntings and sorrow set across the hot, dry plains of the West. This collection spans from pure horror to the horror-adjacent found in both new printings and older classics.

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

Titles that feature alliteration and we love to see it. Recommendations requested to round out this remarkably ridiculous recital.

Westerns with a fantastical spin to them- whether it be monsters, magic or supernatural elements. If you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments!

Books that are just as good as the cover promises. AKA: Fantastic book covers that also happen to be fantastic books! List will be added to in the future because I can’t leave well enough alone. (Suggestions welcome, leave it in the comments.)

what gab smolders read in 2025 as per her book talk video! horror + in tier order from most to least liked by her:

★ S TIER: from "night shoot" to "old country"

★ A TIER: from "what stalks the deep" to "listen to your sister"

★ B TIER: from "the long walk" to "the gathering"

★ C TIER: from "banquet for the damned" to "model home"

★ D TIER: from "3 streets" to "my darling dreadful thing"

★ F TIER: from "basilisk" to "survivor song"

Those books that know how to mix things up!

Horror books with red covers!

A blend of traditional frontier tales with horror, fantasy, and/or science fiction elements

Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do! Subject to changes since I’m fickle. All 150 books plus the 2 bonus! I’m probably crazy for trying 🫠 I have repeated authors mostly because I’m trying to use books I already own. I’m not sure if that’s taboo or not…

not all horror is created equal and these horror and horror-adjacent books are some of the best of the genre based on my incredibly biased standards.

The weird, spooky, and (sometimes) horrific stories set in the Wild West!

I'm always looking for new suggestions, so feel free to comment some recommendations for the list 🏜️

my horror rec list. yes all of them are queer