Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Started: 11.10.25

DNF: 25.10.25

Kindle Unlimited

Joe Hill is Stephen King's son. This is meant to be a really terrifying book, but I wasn't finding it scary at all. I couldn't warm to the MC either, and I just wasn't interested in finding out what was going to happen or how it was all going to end.

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Started: 18.10.25

Finished: 21.10.25

Hardback - library book

Pretty good page turner with a twist I didn't see coming.

The Creeper by A. M. Shine

Started: 4.10.25

Finished: 11.10.25

Kindle

Hell House by Richard Matheson

Started: 5.10.25

Finished: 10.10.25

Paperback - Library book

I couldn't ignore the obvious similarities to The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, however, I didn't find this book scary at all.

The Burning Girls by C. J. Tudor

Started: 4.10.25

Finished: 5.10.25

Paperback - Library book

A good story, kept my interest throughout.

A Helping Hand by Celia Dale

Started: 2.10.25

Finished: 4.10.25

Paperback - Library book

A disturbing and unsettling read

At Home With The Horrors by Sammy Scott

Started: 26.9.25

Finished: 1.10.25

Kindle Unlimited

Absolutely LOVED this book, 14 brilliantly gripping short stories! Each one of them just weird enough to be creepy and uncanny.

Wintering by Katherine May

Started: 1.9.25

Finished: 25.9.25

Paperback

I don't think I really took anything in from this book. I thought it was about learning to let yourself have still, quiet times in life, sort of like hunkering down and hibernating, not necessarily in the winter, but just any time you need to. All I can really remember from it is the author talking about her husband being ill, and how her busy life had to come to a bit of a standstill to look after him and the rest of the family. It's a book that got rave reviews, but somehow it all went over my head.

Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman

Started: 1.9.25

Finished: 20.9.25

Paperback

This was the September choice for the Thrive Book Club. It revolved around antiques and Greek myth and isn't something I'd have chosen, but I did quite enjoy it in the end, and I enjoyed the book club discussion.

Bat Eater and Other Names For Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

Started: 24.8.25

Finished: 4.9.25

Kindle

I had really high hopes for this book after seeing some positive BookTube reviews, but I found it to be quite a slog, I'm afraid. I get that Cora witnessed something incredibly traumatic, and the pandemic was a terrifying time for so many of us, but there were times when I really wished she'd stop moping around! It took right up to the last couple of chapters for her to finally get the 'kick up the bum' (so to speak) that she needed! The ghosts were not my kind of scary ghosts, but they were intriguing, nonetheless.