Recs if you like It Was Her House First...
SCP Containment Breach
The SCP is an organization that Secures, Contains, and Protects our world against anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. Be advised: these books contain such SCPs that have escaped confinement and have caused havoc and destruction. Read at your own peril. And remember to document your findings.
There’s something not right about this place
Fiction stories about Haunted houses and other locations. Maybe it’s ghosts, maybe it’s cursed, maybe it’s ancient gods or creatures? All kinda of supernatural haunts and creatures attached to homes, objects, or locations.
Gab Smolders Horror Book Talk
I can't be the only one who want to remember all the books without jumping around in a video, right?
it's free real estate
it's not a haunted house, it's a haunted HOME. if you enjoyed monster house as a kid or, like me, still enjoy it as an adult, here are some books about homes that aren't so cozy! feel free to give your own recs to add
Gab Smolders 2026 Book Talks
Books mentioned in ToastyGoobus/Gab Smolders book talk videos in 2026
Locus Award Finalists 2025
Pulled from Reactor Magazine's (Tor.com) announcement. See the article for a list of short stories as well.
Works not in database: We Begin Where Infinity Ends - Somto Ihezue The Tin Man's Ghost - Ray Nayler The Millay Illusion - Sarah Pinsker When He Calls Your Name - Catherynne M. Valente The Twenty-One Second God - Peter Watts Night & Day - ed. Ellen Datlow Starling House - Alix E. Harrow (ILLUSTRATED EDITION, ILLUS. BY ROVINA CAI) Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3 (graphic adaptation)
Note: The Revelation Space Collection by Alastair Reynolds is actually for volumes 1 & 2
