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Humorous Horror: 10 Recommended Horror Comedies
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Get Ready for Our Spookiest Month
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Read, Renew, Repeat with the 2024 Adult Summer Reading program!
Today the Matchmakers team welcomes Adult Summer Reading coordinator Jen! Jen writes:Summer Reading is in full swing, but it’s not too late to join...
A Houseful of Hauntings
This month, I thought I’d focus my pleasure reading on haunted house books—but only those that have the word “house” in the title, just for fun!A...
New Horror in Young Adult
Spooky season is still going strong, so here are a handful of new Young Adult horror reads! My four picks include a a creepy town with a sinister...
Read if You Dare: Middle Grade Summer Scares
2023 marks the fifth annual Summer Scares, a program partnership of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), United for Libraries, Book Riot, and...
How to Survive Your Murder
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Middle Grade Thrills & Chills: Shadow Grave by Marina Cohen
Cohen delivers her fourth shiveringly fun middle grade novel with the standalone book, Shadow Grave. Primarily set in an isolated New Hampshire...
Spooky Reading for the Spooky Season
October is in full swing and with it, the season for spooky reading! At the top of my October to-be-read list is the final book in Katherine Arden’s...
Jack London’s To Build a Fire (or, why you shouldn’t go for a hike in -75 degree temperatures)
When it comes to Jack London, you will mostly hear about his most famous stories, The Call of the Wild and White Fang. I haven't read those stories....
Weird Fiction Spotlight: Caitlín R. Kiernan
Weird Fiction is a difficult genre to describe, but you know it when you read it. Stories that get categorized as Weird Fiction often take place in...
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