Images: 1: Floral grey background with a closeup of the cover from 1000 Women in Horror (2026) poster in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Women in Horror). 2: Floral pink background with black bands containing text at top (Women in Horror; Nonfiction book recs (horror analysis)) and bottom (HoL logo). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2020); House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Film (Expanded Edition) by Kier-La janisse (2024); I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt (2024); Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video Horror Directed by Women by Rachael Herb-Neterer (2026); Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed (2022); Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona (2024). 3: As above (book titles: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (2023); 160 Black Women in Horror by Suimko Saulson and Kenya Moss-Dyme (2023); New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror by Patricia Pisters (2022); Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse (2020); Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (2019); Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke (2022)). 4: Floral pink background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text: holpublishing.com/grimreader.

Images: 1: Floral grey background with a closeup of the cover from 1000 Women in Horror (2026) poster in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Women in Horror). 2: Floral pink background with black bands containing text at top (Women in Horror; Nonfiction book recs (horror analysis)) and bottom (HoL logo). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2020); House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Film (Expanded Edition) by Kier-La janisse (2024); I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt (2024); Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video Horror Directed by Women by Rachael Herb-Neterer (2026); Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed (2022); Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona (2024). 3: As above (book titles: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (2023); 160 Black Women in Horror by Suimko Saulson and Kenya Moss-Dyme (2023); New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror by Patricia Pisters (2022); Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse (2020); Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (2019); Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke (2022)). 4: Floral pink background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text: holpublishing.com/grimreader.

Images: 1: Floral grey background with a closeup of the cover from 1000 Women in Horror (2026) poster in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Women in Horror). 2: Floral pink background with black bands containing text at top (Women in Horror; Nonfiction book recs (horror analysis)) and bottom (HoL logo). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2020); House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Film (Expanded Edition) by Kier-La janisse (2024); I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt (2024); Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video Horror Directed by Women by Rachael Herb-Neterer (2026); Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed (2022); Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona (2024). 3: As above (book titles: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (2023); 160 Black Women in Horror by Suimko Saulson and Kenya Moss-Dyme (2023); New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror by Patricia Pisters (2022); Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse (2020); Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (2019); Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke (2022)). 4: Floral pink background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text: holpublishing.com/grimreader.

Images: 1: Floral grey background with a closeup of the cover from 1000 Women in Horror (2026) poster in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Women in Horror). 2: Floral pink background with black bands containing text at top (Women in Horror; Nonfiction book recs (horror analysis)) and bottom (HoL logo). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2020); House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Film (Expanded Edition) by Kier-La janisse (2024); I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt (2024); Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video Horror Directed by Women by Rachael Herb-Neterer (2026); Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed (2022); Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona (2024). 3: As above (book titles: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (2023); 160 Black Women in Horror by Suimko Saulson and Kenya Moss-Dyme (2023); New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror by Patricia Pisters (2022); Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse (2020); Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (2019); Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke (2022)). 4: Floral pink background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text: holpublishing.com/grimreader.

For #womenshistorymonth and #womeninhorrormonth, March's reading list is focused on women creatives in horror—writers, editors, and filmmakers.

Save for later, share, and follow the #grimreader for more (150+ book recs!): holpublishing.com/grimreader! 🖤

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1: Floral black grey background with a partial image from The Hunger poster (1983) in the centre (pencil-drawn greyscale image of three main characters), with the colors of the pride flag over the top (text reads: Grim Reader's Syllabus; Queer Horror: Celebrating LGBT+ History Month).

2: Floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (Queer Horror) and HoL logo at bottom. Six covers in the middle (clockwise): New Queer Horror Film and Television (Darren Elliott-Smith & John Edgar Browning (Eds.), University of Wales Press, 2020). Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema (Caden Mark Gardner & Willow Catelyn Maclay, Repeater, 2024). The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic (Paulina Palmer, University of Wales Press, 2012). It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Joe Vallese (Ed.), The Feminist Press, 2022). Queer Horror: Fun and Freaky Perspectives on Macabre Media (Gina Brandolino & Joe Carlough, Microcosm Publishing, 2025). It Used to be Witches: Under the Spell of Queer Cinema (Ryan Gilbey, Faber & Faber, 2025).

3: Floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (Queer Horror) and HoL logo at bottom. Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Queer Screams: A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema (Abigail Waldron, McFarland, 2022). Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins (Darren Elliott-Smith, I.B. Tauris, 2016). Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema (Andrea Weiss, Penguin, 1992). Queer Slashers (Peter Marra, Indiana University Press, 2025). Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror (Sam Tabet, University of Wales Press, 2025). Queering the Gothic (William Hughes & Andrew Smith (Eds.), Manchester University Press, 2009).

4: Floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (Queer Horror) and HoL logo at bottom. Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator (Heather O. Petrocelli, University of Wales Press, 2023). Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters (Sacha Coward, Manchester University Press, 2025). Sleepaway Camp (BJ Colangelo & Harmony Colangelo, DieDieBooks, 2024). Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Harry M. Benshoff, Manchester University Press, 1997). Desire After Dark: Contemporary Queer Cultures and Occultly Marvelous Media (Andrew J. Owens, Indiana University Press, 2021). Queer Horror: A Film Guide (Sean Abley & Tyler Doupé (Eds.), McFarland, 2024).

In honour of LGBT+ History Month (UK), here's some of our fave books exploring queer horror across film, television, literature, and folklore. To access the full list, visit holpublishing.com/grimreader!

#lgbthistorymonth #queerhorror #booksky #horrorsky #bookrecs #readinglist #grimreader

Victorian floral black grey background with the cover of On Writing (2015) in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; On Writing [part two].

Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (On Writing—Part two) and HoL logo at bottom. Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott, Canongate Canons, 2020). Elements of Indigenous Style (Second Edition): A Guide for Writing by and About Indigenous Peoples (Greg Younging, Brush Education Inc, 2025). First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing… and Life (Joe Moran, Penguin, 2019). remembered rapture: the writer at work (bell hooks, Picador, 1999). The Writing Life (Annie Dillard, Canongate Canons, 2026). There's Something Strange About My Brain: Writing Horror for Kids (RL Stine, Erudition, 2023).

Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (On Writing—Part two) and HoL logo at bottom. Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story (Ursula K. Le Guin, Mariner Books, 2015). Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Jane Alison, Blackstone, 2019). Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (Matthew Salesses, Catapult, 2021). 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Updated): Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power (Gary Provost, Berkley, 2019). Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press, 2023). Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (Second Edition): How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Renni Browne & Dave King, William Morrow, 2004).

Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom (http://holpublishing.com/grimreader). Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text. Text in centre reads: Bookworms! Bookmark full list for later….

Happy Friday, Grim Readers! 🪱

Highlighting another twelve books on writing from our January reading list (read in full at holpublishing.com/grimreader) — which books would you recommend to fellow writers? 📖

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If you're looking for last-minute gift ideas for a horror-loving bookworm, our directory of book recs has over 50 titles! 🪱

#booksky #horrorsky #bookrecs #nonfiction #horror #horrorfan #krampus #jolabokaflod #ghoststories #christmasghoststories #christmasghosts #horrormovie #readinglist #grimreader

Victorian floral black grey background with image of Billy from Black Christmas (1974, Canadian Film Development Corporation) in the centre. Text at top (Grim Reader's syllabus) and under image (Holiday Horror). House of Leaves logo at top.

Victorian floral black grey background with text at top (Grim Reader's syllabus) and in the centre (Our nonfiction directory of book recs for horror fans, writers, and researchers – updated monthly...). House of Leaves logo at top.

Victorian floral grey background with black bands at top and bottom containing text (top: Reading List Preview; bottom: House of Leaves logo). Six book covers in the middle (clockwise: It’s Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited by Dan Duffin, David Hastings & Paul Downey; Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween by Derek Johnston; Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, ed. by Kier-la Janisse & Paul Corupe; The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts by Jeff Belanger; A Scary Little Christmas: A History of Yuletide Horror Films, 1972–2020 by Matthew C. DuPée; The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas by Sarah Clegg).

Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Text in centre reads: Bookworms! Bookmark for later! Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.

From the dark history of Yule to the trashiest Christmas horror films, we’ve stuffed your stocking with another 20 book recs — all themed around Holiday Horror: holpublishing.com/grimreader.

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Image five: Victorian floral background with prompt (13 O'clock) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (The Witching Hour: Ghostly Tales for the Darkest Nights; Various; Sphere, 2025).

Image six: Victorian floral background with prompt (Darkness Falls) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural; Ben Machell, 2025).

Image seven: Victorian floral background with prompt (“It's Not the House That's Haunted....”) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country; Edward Parnell; William Collins, 2020).

Image eight: Victorian floral background with title (Also available from holpublishing.com) in black text box at top and two book covers in centre (Scared Sacred; Filtered Reality).

Continuing our October book club recs... 💙📚

What were your favourite reads last month? 🍂

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Image one: black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader Prompts October 2025.

Image two: black background with five reading prompts in yellow boxes. Title reads: October 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): Silver Shamrock; “The Worms Crawl In...”; 13 O'clock; Darkness Falls; “It's Not the House That's Haunted....”

Better late than never, here's our October book club prompts! 🎃

What's on your October TBR, Grim Readers? 🪱

#booksky #horrorsky #bookclub #readingchallenge #readinglist #filmsky #horror #readingcommunity #books #bookrecs #bookrecommendations #halloween #october #grimreader #houseofleavespublishing

Image one: black background with five book covers and title in grey box at top. Title reads: September 2025 Reading Prompts (HoL picks). Book covers (clockwise): Inferno (Dante Alighieri; Penguin Classics, 2013); Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Cindy Ott; University of Washington Press, 2012); The Craft (Miranda Corcoran; Liverpool University Press, 2023); Field Notes from a Nightmare: An Anthology of Ecological Horror (Edited by Alex Ebenstein; Dread Stone Press, 2021); The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds (Edward Brooke-Hitching; Simon & Schuster UK, 2021).

Image two: black background with five reading prompts in brown boxes. Title reads: September 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): Over The Garden Wall; “I am an Autumn”; Bitchcraft; Earth, Wind + Fire; “Welcome to the Hellmouth.”

Image three: black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader Prompts September 2025.

Happy October Eve, Grim Readers!! 🎃

Having all succumbed to seasonal illness, we're squeezing our September Book Club picks in just in time... swipe for prompts! 🪱

Most importantly, what books are you most excited to read in October? 🍂

#horrorsky #booksky #grimreader #bookclub #readingcommunity

What ancient secrets does the Moon light reveal? 💀 🌕📚 #GrimReader #SpookySeason #HalloweenVibes #DarkFantasy #GothicArt #FullMoon #Occult #Specter #aiart #AIGenerated #DigitalArt #HorrorArt

Image one: black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader Prompts September 2025.

Image two: black background with five reading prompts in brown boxes. Title reads: September 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): Over The Garden Wall; “I am an Autumn”; Bitchcraft; Earth, Wind + Fire; “Welcome to the Hellmouth.”

Happy Monday, Grim Readers... 🪱

What books are you picking up this week? Swipe for some September-themed prompts! 🍂

#booksky #horrorsky #readersky #writersky #bookclub #grimreader #printisundead #houseofleavespublishing #buffy #americanhorrorstory #bookrecommendation #readinglist #readingchallenge

Image one: black background with five book covers and title in purple box at top. Title reads: August 2025 Reading Prompts (Jessica’s picks). Book covers (clockwise): Summer Slasher Horror Anthology: Vol. 1 edited by Clay Anderson; Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa; Pet Sematary by Stephen King; The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise edited by Ron Reikki; Satanic Panic: Pop Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s edited by Kier-la Janisse.

Image two: black background with five reading prompts in purple boxes. Title reads: August 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): "The Curse of Camp Cold Lake”; Nightmares + Dreamscapes; Stone Tape Theory; "The Evil (Un)Dead”; Don’t Panic, Satanic.

Image three: black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader Prompts August 2025.

Squeezing every last drop of blood from summer horror fare, here's @jessicarosehorror.bsky.social's book club picks for August... swipe for prompts! 🖤

What did you read this month, Grim Readers? 🐛

#booksky #readingcommunity #horrorsky #filmsky #houseofleavespublishing #grimreader #printisundead

Image one: black background with five book covers and title in purple box at top. Title reads: August 2025 Reading Prompts (Rebecca's picks). Book covers (clockwise): You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight (Kalynn Bayron; Bloomsbury YA, 2023); Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It (Alice Vernon; Icon Books, 2022); Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia (William Burns; Headpress, 2025); Zombies!: An Illustrated History of the Undead (Jovanka Vuckovic; Griffin, 2011); Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll (Peter Bebergal; Penguin, 2015).

Image two: black background with five reading prompts in purple boxes. Title reads: August 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): "The Curse of Camp Cold Lake”; Nightmares + Dreamscapes; Stone Tape Theory; "The Evil (Un)Dead”; Don’t Panic, Satanic.

Image three: black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader Prompts August 2025.

Get in weirdos, we're going on a book trip... 📚

For August's Book Club, my reading suggestions involve going on an wee adventure... swipe for prompts! 🤘

What are you reading, Grim Readers? 🪱

#booksky #horrorsky #bookclub #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #printisundead #grimreader

Image one: black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader's Book Club July 2025.

Image two: back background with five reading prompts in pink boxes. Title reads: July 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): Adaptation; Piercing the Veil; “Welcome to Camp Nightmare”; Anatomical Art; Ghostbusters.

Ready for our next monthly reading challenge, Grim Readers? 🪱

Swipe to see our July book club prompts! 📚

(And don't forget to show us your stacks)! 👀

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