Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez tr. Megan McDowell #RIPxx My Cemetery Journeys Argentinian author Mariana Enríqeuz is known for unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre, amid contemporary Argentina. Her stories are populated by unruly teen…

Slow reading Cemetery Journeys of #MarianaEnriquez this mth was mesmerising.

Riveting essays, a memoir-like travel diary + history via 21 cemeteries on 4 continents, recalling the past & learning cultural inclinations.

Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave #RIPxx 🪦

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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez tr. Megan McDowell #RIPxx My Cemetery Journeys Argentinian author Mariana Enríqeuz is known for unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre, amid contemporary Argentina. Her stories are populated by unruly teen…

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RIP XX: Final Days Josh Malerman, Incidents Around The House. A very simple but enormously effective horror novel, Incidents Around The House uses its young narrator to truly recapture the terrors of childhood and th…

A few final spooky reads for the season! drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/r... #ripxx #booksky

“Born to be an heroine”: #ReadingAusten2025 William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1796 to 1813, demolished 1845. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, in Northanger Abbey & Persuasion, introduction by R Bromley Johnson. J M Dent…

A review of 'Northanger Abbey' by #JaneAusten after a second visit for #ReadingAusten2025 and #RIPxx. wp.me/sezD85-nabbey

October Miscellany! #RIPXX All my extra reading this month was linked this year’s RIP Reading Challenge, with each book offering its own unique brand of unease, from surreal horror to gothic atmosphere, but all exploring obs…

“these three novels capture different shades of darkness—from the surreal and satirical to the cinematic and haunting”

October Miscellany! #RIPXX

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King Sorrow by Joe Hill Even when I knew it would be a doorstop brick of a novel, I gulped and said ‘yes’ when offered a proof of Hill’s sixth novel, having really enjoyed two previously; Heart-Shaped Bo…

On my blog today for #RIPXX, my review of King Sorrow by Joe Hill @headlinebooks.bsky.social. Thanks to @bookywookydooda.bsky.social for the ARC. annabookbel.net/king-sorrow-...

Dreamed cities: #RIPxx ‘Another World’ by M C Escher (1947): Escher Foundation. ‘Celephaïs’ (1922) by H P Lovecraft, in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, edited by S T Joshi. Penguin Tw…

Dreamed cities: comparing and contrasting short stories by Angela Carter and HP Lovecraft, not such a strange pairing of authors. #RIPxx #Booksky wp.me/pezD85-MP

Five 60-Second Reviews, Some Of Which Are #RIPXX Work is very busy at the moment, so I decided to do some quick-fire reviews: Kate Folk, Sky Daddy. Yep, it’s the novel about the woman who is sexually attracted to planes! I was a big fan of …

Short thoughts on what I've been reading recently: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/f... #ripxx #booksky

Inconceivable sorrow: #RIPxx Muriel Spark. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1970). ‘Oh,’ she says, ‘the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you&#8217…

'The Driver’s Seat', the disturbing 1970 novella by Muriel Spark, reviewed for #RIPxx. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-lise

RIP XX: Short Reads I’m taking part in the Readers Imbibing Peril (RIP) challenge for the fifth time this year! This challenge runs from 1st September to 31st October, and involves reading books classified as mystery,…

Kicking off October with my first #ripxx post - two short, spooky reads, both publishing in the UK on the 9th drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/r... #booksky 😱

Tosca’s kisses: #RIPxx ‘Nemesis (The Great Fortune)’ by Albrecht Dürer, 1501-2. Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings. John Murray, 2018 (2017). Compiled from four serial ebook novellas appearing between 2014 …

'Codename Villanelle' by Luke Jennings reviewed for #RIPxx #Booksky. wp.me/sezD85-oxana

Matter most horrid: #RIPxx Roche Castle, Pembrokeshire. Transformation by Mary Shelley. ‘Transformation’, ‘The Invisible Girl’ and ‘The Mortal Immortal’. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1831-4). Th…

Three short #Gothick romances by #MaryShelley: ‘Transformation’, ‘The Invisible Girl’ and ‘The Mortal Immortal’. #RIPxx #Booksky wp.me/pezD85-J9

Book review: The Best of Edgar Allan Poe MY VERDICT: A haunting collection that masterfully crafts psychological intensity – though readers like me may find the relentless focus on insanity, burial alive, and macabre horror more dis…

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Just read this to kick off #RIPXX! Ghosts are everywhere? Everyone? Everything?