Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Latest #Halloween Read!


 Yes, I often have several books going at once. Some I quit on, other times I can't resist adding another.

Like this!  I must've been first on the library list. This literally just came out! Great First Line: "It's almost sundown in Los Angeles, and Dracula's ashes won't shut up."

Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.-- from Amazon.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

What I'm Reading: #Halloween #Ghosts & #Haunted Stories

 Halloween is coming! I'm getting in the spooky mood with some interesting reads perfect for fall! (No, I'm not too early! Leaves are starting to fall here in the Midwest so it's getting near time. Even the stores have Halloween displays out already!)

I'm reading a pre-release ARC of Literally Dead and a copy of The House on Linden Way. I'll have independent reviews of both soon!  It's been awhile since I've done this, so I'm also planning some Halloween and October reading lists so stay tuned for that!


Literally Dead: Tales of Halloween Hauntings
, (Pre-order, Releases Oct.1.) Gaby Triana, Editor. Stories by Jonathan Maberry, Gwedolyn Kiste, Tim Waggoner, Lisa Morton and others. 

Anthology of 19 spooky short stories that you'll want to read while under the covers (and the lights on!)  Includes: 

JONATHAN MABERRY - "When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead Across Your Dreams in Pale Battalions Go"
LISA MORTON - "Halloween at the Babylon"
TIM WAGGONER - "No One Sings in the City of the Dead"
JEFF STRAND - "Ghosts of Candies Past"
LEE MURRAY - "The Ghost Cricket"
GWENDOLYN KISTE - "A Scavenger Hunt When the Veil is Thin"
SARA TANTLINGER - "How to Unmake a Ghost"
ALETHEA KONTIS - "The Ghost Lake Mermaid"
CATHERINE CAVENDISH - "The Curiosity at the Back of the Fridge"
SCOTT COLE - "Postcards From Evelyn"
DENNIS K. CROSBY - "Bootsy's House"
STEVE RASNIC TEM - "When They Fall"
CATHERINE McCARTHY - "Soul Cakes"
MAUREEN MANCINI AMATURO - "A Bookstore Made of Skulls"
HENRY HERZ - "The Ghosts of Enerhodar"
JEREMY MEGARGEE - "Always October"
DANA HAMMER - "A Halloween Visit"
DAVID SURFACE - "The Crawlers in the Corn"
EVA ROSLIN - "Pink Lace and Death Gods"

  


 The House on Linden Way
Elizabeth Maria Naranjo - While passing through her hometown a decade after she left, Amber Blake impulsively revisits her old house on Linden Way. She only means to stay a moment, to show her three-year-old daughter Bee the place where she grew up. But when the kindly new owners invite them inside, Amber cannot resist.

Soon Bee is missing, the owners have disappeared, and Amber finds herself in a houseful of ghosts. Time takes on new meaning as she loses herself in living memories and a past that does not wish to be forgotten.

** Come back for the blog tour on Oct.10.