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I looooove horror. Yes I have lots!

Hmmm let me start with a few, alright?

NOVELS

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Negative Space by B.R. Yeager

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

SHORT STORIES COLLECTION

The Essential Clive Barker by Clive Barker

The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

"Branch Line" manga series vol.8 cover by Ikebe Aoi

Not getting better at reading this month either. I am just not in a great place right now lol.

NONFICTION

Cell No. 14 by Sayyid Ali Khamenei

I don't think I'd ever be a Khameneist in my lifetime, but, boy, I wouldn't need much conviction to become one. It's just that, deep down, I'm a secularist. That's what's stopping me.

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper by Philip Sugden

It is a big, dense book that compiles almost everything there is to know about Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately, the author falls into the "blame the Polish immigrant" camp. Still, it's a solid read, especially if you're looking for a single volume that brings together all the known facts and evidence surrounding the case and the tumultuous period in which it unfolded.

What annoys me most about many Ripperologists is how certain they are of their conclusions and how readily they trust the police accounts. Given how fragmentary and contradictory the evidence is, that confidence often feels misplaced.

FICTION

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

Fancy another crazy story from our beloved June? @bishonenspit was awesome to scan the magazine for us, Key took 40 years off the scans, Grumpy & shiel duo once again worked x60 times faster than the translator...

This story was compiled in two other books from what I can tell, but because they are print only, adding this story to your collection is not that easy. But for the sake of trackability, we'll be uploading this under the latest compilation it was featured in.