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books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

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

Includes novels, novellas/short story collections, and non-fiction

the darker side of new england. crumbling colonial-era brick, run down coastal towns, abandoned factories, dilapidated mills, foggy orchards, cold dark waters, whispers of witchcraft, venerated institutions, secret societies, and uneasy echoes of the past.

Fiction to read when riding that Stranger Things high, with similar vibes, references or stories. Sometimes called the "kids on bikes" genre, this is a mix of small town horror, scifi and speculative fiction. Also the tie-in novels for Stranger Things itself, as that inspired this list.

For Stephen King and co. Horrors, thrillers, and spooky vibes

Stephen King's bibliography, in publishing order. Includes novels, collections, and nonfiction.

Do you love reading bricks?? Do you love when authors go on and on forever?? Then this list may be for you!

This list is for folks looking for a long book to dive into. All books in this list have more than 250,000 words in them!

As always, open to suggestions! 🤠

Horror is all the more horrifying when we experience it from the POV of children who don’t have as much agency in an adults world, and who don’t always understand why what is happening is happening, or even that it’s supposed to be bad…

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

do clowns make you feel funny in your tummy? 🤡 here is a list of clown books that span multiple genres, from nonfiction to horror to smut

side note: I do love the clown community here in los angeles and I love clown comedy so this is in no way a hateful list

as always, taking any and all suggestions!

Books that were adapted into movies (not tv shows). Let's make this list as long as possible!

(going to only add the first book in a series)

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 🎃🔪🥂

Summertime Horrors and Southern Gothics🖤☀️ A collection of short and long fiction where terrible things happen in broad daylight. From summer slashers to botanical horror to aliens in the cornfield, this list is perfect for unique Horror thrill seekers, Summerween readers and fans of The X Files and The Skeleton Key! Please comment your recs!😊

We think of summer as the season of light, but shadows are longest when the sun is highest. It is the time of the year when the woods grow too thick to see through, the water grows too dark to see into, and the heat makes the mind play tricks. From the rotting porches of the South to the blood-stained cabins of the North... We call them the Summer Nightmares.

Tier 1 from the disturbing novels iceberg. Iceberg was created in response to the disturbing movie iceberg. These are the 'beginner' books with difficult themes and some gore.

Here's where the scary clowns live. Let's hope they don't get out. Coulrophobia in the making.