DisorderedFancy
🧌Kel (they/she) 40s | Agender | Female | Autistic Yuggera Country 🇦🇺 Millennial Mood Reader 📚 My Favourite Genres 📚 Non-Fiction: Nature 🐌 & Science ⚗️ Fiction: Horror 👻
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October 2026
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The Wilson translation is by far the superior translation.
Don't @ me white boys.
I've noticed some reviews mention a lack of content warnings. I personally went into this book expecting that there would be horror themes and horrific themes considering it is a horror anthology by First Nations (American) peoples who have historically, and presently, been dispossessed, oppressed and abused. That said, the opening to Sundays was still extremely confronting. I went and had a look and there is no content warning, not even a general one, at the beginning of the ebook. I'm not sure if the hardcopy has one but it feels like a massive oversight.
The above aside, this was a really brilliant collection of stories. As with all anthologies, some stories were better than others, but the quailty across the board was really high. In fact, I've already purchased a hardcopy for my bookshelf.
I learnt a lot of things from this book as well. I'm not from North America so I had never heard of the "Trail of Tears" for instance. When I came across the phrase, I took time to google it and it sent me down a devastating and rage-inducing rabbit hole. I always love it when I come away from a book with a little more knowledge about the world I am living in.
I definitely recommend this book 👍🏻
'More Deadly Than The Male' is an anthology of gothic horror/ghost stories written by female writers, many of whom have been forgotten or overlooked in modern times.
Each story is preceded by a small biography about the author (sometimes more interesting than the proceeding story).
As it is an anthology, some stories are better than others, but overall, the stories are well-written and engaging.
I definitely recommend it to fans of gothic horror.
When my son was five, he asked if we could make up our own holidays like Christmas and Easter. I said we could and as a result, I chose to dedicate a day to reading each year.
I chose August 30th as it's the birth date of Mary Shelley (who authored my favourite story) and so every year since we have celebrated Mary Shelley Day by gifting books to each other and spending the day reading.
I was just browsing book catalogues, looking for books to gift my children and partner, and it made me wonder if other people also had book-based holidays that they celebrated.
If you do have a book-based holiday or tradition, I'd love to hear about it!
Imagine a highly contrived scenario where humanity's survival depends on everyone in the world reading the same book. Not just any book, one of your My Taste books.
Which book is it? What about it do you love so much that you went to the trouble of orchestrating a global catastrophe that will end humanity unless 6 billion plus people read your favourite book?
For me, it's Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman*
It's an incredibly well-researched and entertaining read. It's set out in chronological order and covers over one hundred years of Black cinema through the lens of Black horror characters and films. The second edition is particularly good as it references newer Black talent such as Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele. I've read it multiple times and I still find it to be fascinating read that I highly recommend to fans of horror and cinematic history.
FYI - the audiobook is exceptionally well-narrated by Julienne Irons and there's also a Shudder documentary based on the book.
In just over a week, my partner & I will be first time home-owners and I've been celebrating my excitement by watching every haunted house movie from The House On Haunted Hill to The Amityvillr Horror to Hell House LLC that I can find.
I'm now a little burnt out on movies and so I'm moving onto haunted house books.
I know there is an awesome Quest and several Lists on the topic but I wanted to ask people for their personal favourites from the sub-genre. For that one haunted house story you just can't forget.
So whether the house is haunted by ghosts (Hell House) or haunted by the people who reside there (We Have Always Lived In The Castle) I'd love to know what they are!
