Previous Book Group Reads

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25th May The Day We Ate Grandad – CM Rosens

18th May Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer

11th May Evil Roots edited by Daisy Butcher

4th May The Runaway Princess – Helen Nde

27th April The Black Widow Society – Angela Makholwa

20th April Kintu – Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

6th April My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – Amos Tutuola

30th MarchTrick or Treat – Richie Tankersley Cusick

23rd March Burning Roses – S. L. Huang

17th March The Monsters We Defy – Leslye Penelope

9th March Meddling Kids – Edgar Cantero

2nd March The Hacienda – Isabel Cañas

22nd/23rd February A Better Fate by D. N. Bryn and The Man and the Crow by Rebecca Crunden

16th February Kiki’s Delivery Service – Eiko Kadono

9th February The Lancashire Witches – William Harrison Ainsworth

2nd February – Carmilla Web Series

27th January Taaqtumi – Assorted writer

20th January The Reanimator’s Heart – Kara Jorgensen

13th January This Is How You Lose the Time War – Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

6th JanuaryGideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir

29th December – The Whyborne and Griffin series – Jordan Hawk

16th DecemberThe Magpie Lord – K J Charles

9th December The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle

2nd December The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter

25th November Ghosts (BBC series)

18th November Zofloya – Charlotte Dacre

11th November The Deep – Rivers Solomon

4th November Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

28th October Vagabonds – Eloghosa Osunde

21st October Anoka – Shane Hawk

14th October Eat the Rich – Sara Gailey, Pius Bak and Roman Titov

7th October The Beauty – Aliya Whiteley

30th September She Who Rules the Dead – Maria Abrams

23rd September Once Upon a Haunted Moor – Harper Fox

16th September – ‘A Dead Djinn in Cairo’ – P.  Djèlí Clark

9th September The Red Palace – June Hur

2nd September – ‘Carmilla’ – Sheridan Le Fanu for the ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds’ conference

30th August Carmilla and Laura – S D Simper (with author visit)

23rd August – ‘House of Aunts’ by Zen Cho and ‘Queen of the Cloven Heart’ by Hailey Piper

Zen Cho’s ‘House of Aunts’ can be found here

Hailey Piper’s ‘Queen of the Cloven Heart’ can be read here

16th August Unhallowed – Jordan Hawk

9th August A Sicilian Romance – Ann Radcliffe

2nd August Pet – Akwaeke Emezi

26th July Beneath the Rising – Premee Mohamed

19th July The Worms and His Kings – Hailey Piper (author visit)

12th July A Haunting at Hartwell Hall – Rachel Bowdler (author visit)

5th July When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead – Haunt Anthology (author visits from S M Uddin and Gerardo J. Mercado and publisher visit from Rebecca Wojturska)

28th June Hopeless, Maine – Tom and Nimue Brown (with author visit)

21st June The Missing Page – Cat Sebastian (with author visit!)

14th June When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain – Nghi Vo

7th June A Snake Falls to Earth – Darcie Little Badger

31st May The Ghost and Mrs Muir – R. A. Dick

24th May Weep, Woman, Weep – Maria DeBlassie (with author visit)

17th May – ‘Gay for the Pirate King’ and ‘Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron’ (rpgs) from Oliver Darkshire

10th May The Vanisher’s Palace – Aliette de Bodard

3rd May The Uncanny and the Dead – Anthology (author visit from Allie Pino, CM Rosens and Frank)

26th April Caleb Williams – William Godwin

19th April My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite

12th April The Feast of the Innocents – Colin Harker (with author visit)

5th April The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Sara Collins

29th March Beyond the Veil – various with author visits from Evelyn Freeling, Caitlin Marceau, Kayla Wittle and Georgia Cook

Content note list here

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22nd March The Wolf and the Woodsman – Ava Reid

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15th March Seducing the Sorcerer – Lee Welch

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8th March – Selection of Silvia Moreno Garcia Stories

Jaguar Woman

On the Lonely Shore – https://uncannymagazine.com/article/on-the-lonely-shore/

Lacrimosa – http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/lacrimosa/

1st March Candyman and ‘The Forbidden’ by Clive Barker

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22nd February Krabat – Otfried Preußler

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15th February The Black Veins – Ashia Monet

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8th February The Black Dog and Other Gothic Tales – Icy Sedgwick

You can hear one of the stories for free here, Amazon UK link, Amazon US link

1st February Let Their Dead Bury Their Dead – Randall Kenan

25th January I am Stone – Robert Murray Gilchrist

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  1. The Crimson Weaver – audio version here
  2. The Lover’s Ordeal – audio version here

18th January My Heart is a Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones

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11th January Gogol (tv series)

Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

4th January Life and Death – Stephenie Meyer

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21st December Caverns of the Snow Witch – Ian Livingstone

14th December Where Decay Sleeps – Anna Cheung

You can get it from Haunt Publishing here

7th December Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie

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30th November – ‘Justice Harbottle’, ‘Green Tea’ and ‘The Familiar’ – Sheridan Le Fanu

They are available through Project Gutenberg here, Amazon UK link, Amazon US link

23rd November – What We Do in the Shadows (Seasons 1 and 2)

16th November The Black Moth – Georgette Heyer

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9th November – Silence is a Sense – Layla AlAmmar (with author visit)

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2nd November Rituals in the Dark – You can buy and play here

26th October – ‘The Skeleton’ and ‘The Hungry Stones’ by Rabindranath Tagore

The Skeleton (can be found here) and The Hungry Stones (can be found here)

19th October – The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor – Shaenon K. Garrity and Christopher Baldwin

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12th October – The Wife in the Attic – Rose Lerner

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5th October – Cornish Horrors edited by Joan Passey

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28th September 2021 – Hellion’s Waltz – Olivia Waite

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22nd September Vampire City – Paul Feval

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16th September – Angels’ Blood – Nalini Singh

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9th September Star Trek: Next Generation

2nd September – Abiona: Monster Hunter – Maya Joi (with author visit)

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26th August Uncanny Magazine

Eighteen Days of Barbareek – Rati Mehrotra

You Perfect, Broken Thing – C. L. Clarke

19th August All Systems Red – Martha Wells

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12th August Matriarch – Adam Wing (with author visit)

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5th August The Cybernetic Tea Shop – Meredith Katz

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29th July What is not yours is not yours – Helen Oyeyemi

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22nd July Bloodlust and Bonnets – Emily McGovern

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15th July The Girl and the Ghost – Hanna Alkaf

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8th July – Scottish Gothic Tales – Various

Walter Scott – ‘Wandering Willie’s Tale’

James Hogg – The Strange Letter of a Lunatic

Robert Louis Stevenson – Thrawn Janet

Margaret Oliphant – The Library Window

J M Barrie – Farewell Miss Julie Logan

Dorothy Haynes – Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch

John Buchan – The Watcher by the Threshold

George MacDonald – The Haunted House

27th May Ghost Ride – Hope Zane

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20th May A Kiss Before Dying – Ira Levin

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13th May Thirteenth – C M Rosens

E-copies available at C M Rosen’s ko-fi here

(Physical copies available through Amazon)

6th May The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg

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29th April – ‘Redressed’ by Cat Sebastian and ‘Price of Meat’ by K J Charles (with author visit from K J Charles)

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22nd April Cinderella is Dead – Kalynn Bayron (with author visit)

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15th April Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho

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8th April Unbound – Various Authors with Author Visits by Heidi Ayarbe, Kaye Hart, Angela Sierra, Fiona McLaren, Emily Colin, Rishi Mohan, John Klekamp and Lisa Amowitz

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1st April The Sea in You – Jessi Sheron

Find it here or here for free

25th March – ‘Bump in the Night’ by Lara Kinsey and ‘Hungry Business’ by Maria DeBlassie

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18th March To Be Taught if Fortunate – Becky Chambers

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11th March – Fiyah 17 – Assorted authors (with visits from Kel Coleman and M H Ayinde)

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4th March Heart of Stone – Johannes Evans

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25th February 2020 The Bayou – Arden Powell

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18th February 2020 Dowry of Blood – S T Gibson

Order here from Nyx Publishing

11th February 2020 The Seventh Bride – T Kingfisher

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4th February 2020 The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea – Maggie Tokuda Hall

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28th January 2020 House of Hell – Steve Jackson

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21st January 2020 – Vampires of Moscow – Caedis Knight

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14th January 2020 – American Hippo – Sarah Gailey

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7th January 2020 Penny Blackfeather – Francesca Dare

You can find them online here. If you’d like to support the author and get a physical copy, you can do so through Francesca’s etsy store here

24th December 2020 – ‘The Ghost and the Haunted Man’s Bargain’ – Charles Dickens

17th December 2020 Dread Nation – Justina Ireland

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10th December 2020 Easy Prey – S C Parris

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3rd December 2020 The Wolf and the Girl – Aster Glenn Gray

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27th November 2020 The Monster of Elendhaven – Jennifer Giesbrecht

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20th November 2020 The Apple Tree Throne – Premee Mohamed

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13th November 2020 Women’s Weird II – Ed. by Melissa Edmundson

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6th November 2020 Old Gods of Appalachia Podcast – Link here

29th October 2020 The Doctor’s Discretion – E E Ottoman

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22nd October 2020 Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

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15th October 2020 Cemetery Boys – Aidan Thomas

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8th October 2020 Ghost Stories of Elizabeth Gaskell

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1st October 2020 Engkwentro Anthology – Various Authors (with author visit!)

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24th September 2020 – Intruders – Mohale Mashigo

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17th September 2020 Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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10th September 2020 The Magnus Archives – Rusty Quill

3rd September 2020 Elatsoe – Darcie Little Badger (with author visit)

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27th August 2020 The Gilda Stories – Jewelle Gomez

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20th August 2020 Salt Magic, Skin Magic – Lee Welch (with author visit)

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13th August 2020 – ‘The Nose’ – Nikolai Gogol

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6th August 2020 The Lawrence Browne Affair – Cat Sebastian (with author visit)

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30th July 2020 Carmilla – Sheridan Le Fanu

23rd July 2020 Spectral City – Leanna Renee Hieber (with author visit)

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17th July 2020 Fledgling – Octavia Butler

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9th July 2020 – Selection of short fiction by Dr Darcie Little Badger with guest authors L. D. Lewis and Dr Darcie Little Badger.

Owl vs. The Neighbourhood Watch

NKÁSHT ÍÍ

The Whalebone Parrot

Né łe!

Skinwalker, Fast-talker

The Famine King

2nd July 2020Fireside Fiction Selection with guest authors Maria Haskins, Suyi Davis Okungbowa and Danny Lore. Questions also answered by Nibedita Sen.

Maria Haskins ‘The Brightest Lights in Heaven’. You can find a copy here (written and audio) – https://firesidefiction.com/the-brightest-lights-of-heaven

‘Advice for your first time at the Faerie Market’ by Nibedita Sen https://firesidefiction.com/advice-for-your-first-time-at-the-faerie-market

‘Fare’ by Danny Lore – https://firesidefiction.com/fare

Suyi Davis Okungbowa’s ‘The Haunting of 13 Oluwo Street’ (the audio for this one is the author’s own) https://firesidefiction.com/the-haunting-of-13-oluwo-street

Carolin Jansen’s ‘Radio Static’ https://firesidefiction.com/radio-static

Alberto Chimal’s ‘Parasitismo’ (‘Parasitism’) Available in English and Spanish. https://firesidefiction.com/parasitism

L. D. Lewis’ ‘Signal’ https://firesidefiction.com/signal

25th June 2020The Crows – CM Rosens (with a visit from the author)

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18th June 2020Spectred Isle – K. J. Charles (with a visit from the author)

11th June 2020The Monk – Matthew Lewis

4th June 2020Widdershins – Jordan Hawk (with a visit from the author)

28th May 2020The Quiet Gentleman – Georgette Heyer

21st May 2020 – ‘The Birds’ – Daphne Du Maurier

14th May 2020Under the Pendulum Sun – Jeanette Ng (with a visit from the author)

7th May 2020The Women’s Weird: 1890 – 1940 – Handheld Press

30th April 2020Robber Girl – S. T. Gibson (with a visit from the author)

23rd April 2020I am Legend – Richard Matheson

16th April 2020Haunted Voices: An Anthology of Gothic Story-Telling from Scotland with editor Rebecca Wojturska and guest authors Ali Maloney, Anna Cheung, Connor McAleese, Katalina Watt and Sean Wai Keung

9th April 2020Jamaica Inn – Daphne Du Maurier

2nd April 2020The Unspeakable Queer Gothic Anthology with editor Celine Nyx and guest authors Mason Hawthorne, Heather Valentine, Jude Reid, Eliza Temple, Ryann Fletcher, Jen Glifort, E. Saxey, Katalina Watt…

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