Did I Find the Perfect Halloween Read? 🫣 Reading 7 Horror Novels

And one of my favorite horror novels is A House at the Bottom of the Lake by Josh Malererman.

Five stars for Bat Eater and Other Names for Corsang. Please go read this book. It was so good.

Really interesting premise, creepy, atmospheric, liked the writing style, too many characters, a little bloated, should have been a short story. Three stars.

I have read If We Were Villains by the same author and loved it. Gave it five stars.

It was so visceral and intense and immersive and engrossing and I loved it a lot. And I'm giving it five stars.

I still had fun with it. I zoomed through it. I read it so fast.

But this was just very impactful for me, very intense, very emotional, terrifying on a really deep human level and made me feel very seen in its depiction of grief and loss in many moments and was terrifyingly relatable and just so disturbing and upsetting. And for me, it was a five-star experience.

I felt like I kept finishing the stories and just feeling a little blah about them. Having some theories about what the author was trying to get at with the stories, but just feeling like they were too short and too vague in most cases to really spark a lot of thoughtful reflection or to really stick with me.

I was really intrigued by both. As soon as I finished those first chapters I wanted to just keep going.

All the characters sucked. The ending pissed me off. I just had a terrible time.

I did still really enjoy it. I had a really fun time with it. It was a very easy, fast read.