This is an interesting book. Leila Taylor discusses her experiences as a black woman and being in the goth scene, as well as critique of popular culture and how it is relevant to America's racist and past and present. There are multiple typos and misspellings that really irritated me, but this book is still worth checking out.

I like books where someone gets to enter and explore a different world, and while I don't always like every book with that element, I did like this one. It is about Saffron, a teen girl who gets accidentally transported to Kenan after following Gwen, a woman who's also originally from Earth but has made a life for herself in the other world. Besides Gwen and Saffron, the book also has the perspective of a girl named Zech and a spoiled consort named Viya. Saffron gets involved in politics, and makes friends and enemies. I enjoyed reading how the society is matriarchal and queernormative, and people are able to marry more than one person or not get married at all. The political intrigue stuff bored me but the writing and dialogue kept me interested.

This book is so good, I almost didn't want to finish it because then I would never again get to read it for the first time. It is about three elderly people, one of whom is a retired fantasy author, another is a grandfather, and the third is a suspiciously wealthy woman. When they were teens, all three of them went through a traumatic incident at a home with a bloody and gruesome history. The entity that resides in the home, known as Mr. Friendlyman, has got to be one of the creepiest and most terrifying creatures I've ever read about in a horror novel. The plot twist was pretty easy for me to figure out but that did not lessen how much I enjoyed this. I really had a great time with this gory and gruesome cosmic horror book, and I'll always be eager to read anything by Judith Sonnet.

Horror books about haunted houses are one of my favorite kind of books, so I was eager to read this. It definitely lived up to what I expected of it. It is about a group of people who got tickets to explore the chateau of a wealthy man and the Tour Guide. Among the guests are a husband, wife and their teenage son, a man wearing a bow tie, a historian, and a man from Baltimore. They are all so well-written that it felt as I were reading about real people. As they are led through the rooms, the guests touch something despite the rule about not touching anything, and each time they do a specific memory of the grisly crime that occurred in that is revealed. The only time I felt bored while reading this was whenever Ned, a man who works at the chateau, thinks about the woman who left him alone at the altar. I really don't care so much about marriage stuff. Anyway this is a great gothic horror novel and I would recommend to readers who like Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House.

This book is aggressively amatonormative

Margot and her mother Ruth live by the forest. They eat people, all of whom Ruth calls strays when they find their way to their home. Things change when Eden shows up during a snowstorm. The writing in this book is delectable and it had me so captivated. I wanted to find out what happens to and between Margot, Ruth, and Eden, but at the same time I never wanted to stop reading. This reminds me of stories like Hansel and Gretel, Carrie, Motherthing. I am definitely eager to read more by Lucy Rose.

I am going to be thinking about this book a lot. It is so unhinged, hilarious, grim and I had such a good time reading it. It is about Winifred Notty, a woman who becomes a governess for the insuffetable Pounds family. Besides being a governess, Winifred is also a huge freak. Spending time with the Pounds family, both the parents and the children, brings out Winifred's violent urges. After reading this and Mrs March, I will always be eager to read anything by Virginia Feito. :)

Some of these stories were just okay in my opinion, but the majority impressed me. There are witches, vampires, small blue monsters, hauntings, and cannibals in these stories. I really enjoyed the writing and this has made me eager to check out more from Emma J. Gibbon.

This is such a fun, delightful, and creepy collection of stories. Every single story managed to both heartbroken and frightened. The illustrations are captivating as well. I'm definitely going to check out more of Abby Howard's comics.

It would have been better if this fantasy novella had more showing and less telling, but it's still nice to read about a trans woman becoming a dragon and getting revenge on the men who bullied her.