Recs if you like Hangsaman...

Herein lies the liminal, the eerie. A seven part series documenting a single day and wide green fields void of any living beings. Reality is a train that has left long ago, and you are a post apocalypse zombie. Derealisation abounds and reality is a solid thing we can't grasp. Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. For the twelfth housers out there.

Will update the more I read

the books that are most interesting, inventive, and complex for the girlhood studies grad student in me. whose “girlhood” are we talking about? i’m thinking of girlhood as a liminal, queer, socially constructed, often traumatic, uncanny space.

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.

It’s always nice to feel like a normal person by reading about those more unhinged than you 😌 which is why I LOVE weird girl lit! These are my interpretations of the genre. Some I’ve read and some I’m going to read. Apologies in advance if it gets long. Recommendations are absolutely welcome!! So please feel free.

I know a couple are written by men which might be taboo for some but I’ve included because I thought they were appropriate or the author has a track record of writing women well.

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…

my fave genre 🙏🫡 that messy murky complicated space and yes i’m including dracula don’t @ me

works that are referenced in (or remind me of) dave malloy’s excellent musical ghost quartet

“i’m a little confused and more than a little frightened.” “it’s okay my dear, this is a circular story.”

the horrors of being a teenage girl, and the horror that IS a teenage girl