SkywardStrange

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The Rotting Room: A Historical Horror Novel

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nohara66

Should I write?

So I have been thinking about writing something, like a story, I do have a few ideas but I am not really sure if people would like to read them. I will write nevertheless because it's something I have been wanting to do for a long time. I will start with Wattpad. If anyone knows some other websites or apps for publishing stories, do let me know. Is it a good idea to start writing? I have no further plan to enter the official book universe, I for now want to share my own thoughts through what I write. I'll share links as soon as I gather my thoughts and post a few chapters. Thank you.

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rinrin2000

What are your favorite subgenres?

What's some of your favorite subgenres you wish more people read? I love discovering new books and genres, so I'm really curious! If you have some book recommendations, that'd be even better.

Mine would be Cozy/Slice-of-Life LitRPG, some of my favorite series would be "I Ran Away to Evil" and "Heretical Fishing".

I'm excited for your guys' recommendations!

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Hive Mind

Allison Gunn

“A dark, propulsive horror-thriller with all the drama and psychological terror of a lost season of American Horror Story.” —Luke Dumas, USA TODAY bestselling author Gillian Flynn meets Marcus Kliewer in this chilling, eerie thriller chronicling the brutal murder of a troubled scream queen in remote Appalachia. Infamous Hollywood manager Jacob Peyton is on trial for what’s been dubbed the crime of the century. The victim in question? Bee Torrance: his client-turned-wife and a horror artist whose controversial art and escapades were live streamed to keep viewers, known as her Hive, entertained. Just one week prior to his arrest, Jacob and Bee disappeared deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Bee was found brutally murdered in an abandoned cabin. The evidence undeniably points to Jacob as the culprit, yet he claims to have no memory of the killing or their ill-fated trip. The last thing he remembers before inexplicably losing consciousness is hooded figures descending on his wife. Now, haunted by flashbacks and twisted visions, Jacob argues Bee died at the hands of demonic spirits. But is there any truth to it? Scrambling for damage control, his Hollywood executive sister hires two journalists to dig into Bee Torrance’s sordid past and build public sympathy for Jacob. Savvy investigative journalist, Greg Tomlin, is paired with spunky documentarian Skylar Ryan, who has her own hidden motivation for defending the Peyton family. Together, they embark on a winding journey through mayhem, memories, and monsters, both human and otherworldly. The further the duo descend into Bee’s world, the more their own realities become as warped as the nightmares devouring Jacob’s sanity. A rollercoaster ride with nonstop twists and turns, Hive Mind extinguishes the bright lights of Hollywood to expose untold horrors and the reckoning that awaits in the wilds of Appalachia.

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Scorpion Deep

CG Drews

CG Drews, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn, weaves a disturbing and intoxicating siren-call in Scorpion Deep, about a lonely boy who accidentally awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god.The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned.In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape.To his shock and horror, the ritual works—Scorpion Deep awakens. And despite his terror, Jonathan can't help but feel drawn toward the ageless entity that seems just as mutually obsessed with him. As scales start growing down his spine and Scorpion Deep's adoration of him turns bloody, Jonathan realizes the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster one way or another.But once a god has awoken, the only way to be free is to pay a price of blood.Also by CG DrewsDon't Let the Forest InHazelthorn

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Hive Mind

Allison Gunn

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The Monsters We Made

Peyton June

Two friends must uncover the truth about the bloody reappearance of a cryptid in this queer, X-Files-inspired thriller from the author of Bad Creek. To save her family’s struggling ranch, 18-year-old Claire fabricates a video of her hometown’s legendary alien cryptid, Old Lucky, that grabs the attention of paranormal vloggers Lenny and Evan. Lenny is plagued with doubts about their channel’s future, so catching Old Lucky might just be her chance at finding something real. After Evan deserts Lenny, believing the investigation to be a hoax, Claire agrees to “help” Lenny uncover the history of Old Lucky—and preserve her deceit. But the more the girls are drawn together and the more clues they unearth, the more secrets rise to the surface. The cows are being mutilated, the ranch hand has disappeared, and the strange lights in the sky are back. Something inhuman lurks in Scarberry, where danger lives close to home. The Monsters We Made is an eerie and suspenseful exploration of one town’s dark history and the people who brought it back to life.

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House Haunters

KC Jones

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We Were Never Here

Sophia Hannan

The remaining members of a ghost hunting show return to the haunted manor that may have killed their friend in this atmospheric, contemporary gothic debut perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting and Delicious Monsters. In July, Georgia Perry and Jules Park—secret girlfriends, covert art thieves, and cohosts of a popular YouTube ghost hunting show—step into a haunted house to steal a priceless painting. A few short hours later, there’s a knife in Jules’s chest and Georgia is waking up in a pool of blood with no painting and no memory of how she got there. Now it’s October, and Georgia is underwater. She hasn’t been to class in weeks, and she’s avoiding her old crew—and only friends—like the plague. But when the three remaining thieves get a call from the man who paid a hefty sum to keep them out of jail, demanding that they return to finish the job, Georgia has no choice but to return to her old life. As the estranged friends scramble to steal the painting with no cover story and no leader, they quickly realize that something is very, very wrong, and it’s not just the suffocating memory of Jules or the prying eyes of their viewers. Between the strange shadows that begin to trail them and the nightmares plaguing Georgia’s sleep, only one thing is certain: something followed them home from De Lys manor, and it will do anything to keep them from going back.

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Parasitic Oscillations: Poems

Madhur Anand

Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Finalist A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book "Anand's attention to and ability to evoke explicit, exponential beauty in scientific and natural form are simply stunning. . . . Anand's debut is in every measure a triumph." – Publishers Weekly A stunning new collection of poems that examine various aspects of living and practicing as both a poet and scientist in the Anthropocene during a time of unravelling. The poems in Madhur Anand’s second collection interrogate the inevitability of undesired cyclic variation caused by feedback in the amplifying devices of both poetry and science. There are several interacting the poet’s own work between the arts and the sciences, living between North American and Indian cultures, as well as examining contemporary environments through the lag effects of the past. Weaving in a close reading of A.O. Hume’s The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds (1889), anticolonial, intertextual, feminist, electronic, and diasporic relationships are examined against the backdrop of unprecedented ecological collapse. Here, birds are often no longer direct subjects of metaphor, but rather remain strange, sometimes silent, a kind of menacing and stray capacitance, but can still act as harbingers of discovery and hope. Fluctuating through extreme highs and lows, both emotional and environmental, while examining a myriad of philosophical and ethical dilemmas, Parasitic Oscillations is an enlightening, thought-provoking, and profoundly beautiful work that both informs and questions.

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Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation

Michael G. Long

Acclaimed author Michael G. Long tells the story of the devastating AIDS crisis and the trailblazing activists who fought for dignity, compassion, and treatment. Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS! This was the slogan for ACT UP—or AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power—an activist organization that emerged in the 1980s during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The group was loud, direct, and confrontational as it fought for access to treatment, compassionate care, and recognition for everyone with HIV and AIDS. Tracing the history of the LGBTQ+ community from the Stonewall Riots and “gay liberation” movements to the groundbreaking protests of the 1980s and 1990s, Fight AIDS! is a gripping narrative of the AIDS epidemic for young readers, told through the lens of the activism it fostered. Focusing on the people most directly affected by the crisis and on the individuals who fought for justice, it is an intimate and humane account of one of the most devastating eras in United States history and an electrifying celebration of the power ordinary citizens have to enact meaningful change.

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The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery

Kaitlyn Tiffany

The remarkable untold story of a network of amateur researchers who debunked the Warren Report, raising questions about JFK's assassination that remain unanswered to this day—a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American century from an Atlantic staff writerIn the winter of 1967, the official story of the Kennedy assassination was under threat. A scattered group of Americans had pointed to major problems with the report prepared by President Johnson’s hand-picked Warren Commission. Most surprising to some, “the typical ‘sleuth’ was more the concerned housewife than the big city hustler.” The women questioning the report, as one journalist observed, outnumbered the men two-to-one. Politicians and reporters referred to these women as “scavengers,” suggesting they were bored or eccentric women with murder-mystery fixations or crushes on the deceased President Kennedy.In The Housewives Underground, Kaitlyn Tiffany resurrects the story of Maggie Field, Shirley Martin, and Sylvia Meagher after decades of dismissal. Shirley Martin traveled frequently to Dallas, enlisted her children to help interview key witnesses, and irritated J. Edgar Hoover with her "antagonistic" attitude toward the FBI. Maggie Field hosted a screening of a bootleg copy of the Zapruder film and fundraised for a new investigation. And at the center of the story is Sylvia Meagher—a born-and-raised New Yorker who lived in the Village and worked at the United Nations, was devoted to the ballet and the Mets, cultivated fierce friendships and firm grudges, and dedicated twenty-five years to her conviction that the whole truth of JFK’s assassination had not been told. Meticulously researched and engrossing, The Housewives Underground takes readers through the turbulent 1960s and 1970s—a time when more Americans began questioning what the government was telling them—revealing the incredible lives of Sylvia and her fellow so-called “Housewives” and bringing to light the crucial, overlooked role they played in asking the first, hardest questions about one of the most shocking events in American history.

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Jun 25, 2026

Mere

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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Queer, sapphic and utterly bleak and beautiful, this had the descent into despair and madness I was looking for from The Starving Saints.

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Paranoid Gardens #1

Gerard Way

Loo is a nurse at the most bizarre care-center in the universe. The staff are not entirely human, and the cases downright unearthly. Aliens, ghosts, superheroes, and more creatures plague its hallways as both doctors and patients and the hospital itself seems to be somewhat self-aware. Loo believes that despite a recent failure at her job she’s been given some sort of higher calling in this mysterious place, and decides to rise to the challenge. Along the way she must fight her way through corrupt staff members, powerful theme park cults, and her own personal demons and trauma to meet this challenge and discover what secrets the gardens hold.

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Imaginary Houses

Laura Cabral

When a house is no longer a home, they appear. The first time Stephanie saw the flayed man, he crawled out of her closet in the days before her family lost their home in the financial crisis. Years later, the flayed man reappeared in a painting, part of a series called Imaginary Houses. Now an anxious graduate student in art history, and convinced that the paintings hold answers about what she saw, Stephanie sets out to hunt down the other paintings in the series, along with more information on the artist, whose life has eerie parallels with her own. Pursued by twisted beings through museums, galleries, archives, and abandoned houses, she slips into a new reality, one where doors appear in places they shouldn’t, and floor plans seem to rewrite themselves on a whim. The flayed man and the others want something from Stephanie. All she wants is answers, but the price for them may be steeper than she is willing to pay.

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Rec Request: Memoirs About Chronic Pain

Heya Boundlings. This is a little uncomfortable, but PB is a safe space and if anyone can help me out, it's you lovely folks 🫶

I'm chronically ill. It's not a secret, it's even in my bio. But lately I've been struggling with feeling like my body is an adversary - like I'm a dark closet a monster might lunge out of at any moment. My partner and friends are mostly healthy folk, and it's hard not to feel like a broken doll among them (as much as they try to make me feel included and accepted it's hard with stuff like this).

I've been wondering if reading memoirs, essays or self-help books by other chronically ill folk would help, but I'm not sure where to start. It's not a genre I read a lot of - I read and enjoyed How to Survive a Bear Attack by Claire Cameron last year and I've read poetry collections like Courtney Bates-Hardy's Anatomical Venus that have helped a bit, but other than that I'm at a loss. At this point I'm not much in the mood for science or psycho-therapy - I'm more interested in feeling seen, finding hope and moving forward than "fixing" anything.

TL;DR: please rec me your memoirs and related texts about accepting chronic illness, finding hope in the midst of it all, etc.

Thanks Boundlings 💜 take care of yourselves.

(P.S. Please refrain from giving health or lifestyle advice in the comments here. Your intentions are probably good, but I have doctors and specialists dealing with that side of things and their advice is enough 😵‍💫 thanks!)

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Rec Request: Memoirs About Chronic Pain

Heya Boundlings. This is a little uncomfortable, but PB is a safe space and if anyone can help me out, it's you lovely folks 🫶

TL;DR: please rec me your memoirs and related texts about accepting chronic illness, finding hope in the midst of it all, etc.

Thanks Boundlings 💜 take care of yourselves.

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