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I'd like to nominate MEOW by Brian Edlin (yes, my own — hope that's allowed!). It's a creature-feature at heart: a small town, a forbidden book, a cracked mirror… and a black kitten that is very much not just a kitten. An ancient, hungry thing travels through reflections, and the cat is never far from it. Short, nasty, and made for a fall group read.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Brian wrote: "I'd like to nominate MEOW by Brian Edlin (yes, my own — hope that's allowed!). It's a creature-feature at heart: a small town, a forbidden book, a cracked mirror… and a black kitten that is very mu..."The post says that authors can't nominate their own works :)
The Nest by Gregory A. Douglas by Gregory A. DouglasEdit to add a couple more "creature features".
Devoured: A Horror Novel by Bryan W. Alaspa
Fear by Ronald Kelly
The Loch by Steve Alten
Forgive me if you've already done any of these, btw!The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight- not quite a creature, but it's close and lots of fun.
I haven't read this one yet, but Prophesy by Davit Seltzer is one of them that I've been curious about. So far, feels like a fun, campy and more gross-out version of the Southern Reach series to me!
I nominate:Rats by James Herbert
Slugs by Shaun Huston
Nightwing - Oldie but classic goodie. With bats.The Hematophages - Sci-Fi horror with lamprey aliens.
Full list of previous group reads:PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE
14 by Peter Clines
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Blacktail by Scott Hawkins
Blister by Jeff Strand
The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
By the Light of Dead Stars by Andrew Van Wey
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez
The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates
Castaways by Brian Keene
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
Colony by Benjamin Cross
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
The Creeper by A.M. Shine
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
Cunning Folk by Adam L.G. Nevill
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
The Elementals by Michael McDowell 2X
The Envelope by John Durgin
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
Fever House by Keith Rosson
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghostland by Duncan Ralston
The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Girls by Emma Cline
Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
The Haar by David Sodergren
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Headlights by C.J. Leede
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Hide by Kiersten White
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2X
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
It by Stephen King
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
Jaws by Peter Benchley
The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo
John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin
Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom
Larry by Adam Millard
Last Days by Adam Nevill
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2X
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren
Malignant by Michaelbrent Collings
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
Misery by Stephen King
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
Murder Road by Simone St. James
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Near the Bone by Christina Henry
Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam L.G. Nevill
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Off Season by Jack Ketchum
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Parasite by Darcy Coates
Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Rats by James Herbert
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Revival by Stephen King
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Roo by Alan Baxter
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Ruins by Scott Smith
The Running Man by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King
’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Shining by Stephen King
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Slade House by David Mitchell
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Subhuman by Michael McBride
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Terror by Dan Simmons 2X
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman 2X
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon
Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vessel by Adam Nevill
Watchers by Dean Koontz
The Watchers by A.M. Shine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2X
We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting by Richard Chizmar, W.H. Chizmar
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics
You Like it Darker by Stephen King
You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
Margaret wrote: "Fun! Do i post my nomination here or message you directly?"You post your nomination and any +1s in this thread. See message #18 before posting to make sure your choice wasn't a previous group read. All previous reads are listed alphabetically there.
Corey wrote: "The troop by nick cutter"TJ (TaksBooksNSpooks on YT) wrote: "I nominate:
Rats by James Herbert"
These were previous group reads therefore not eligible. The full list alphabetically is now in message #18. See that before nominating.
Lisa - *HowlBeSatReading*🐺 wrote: "How about I Am Legend by Richard Matheson? I couldn’t see it on the previously read list (apologies if I’ve missed it) I’d love an excuse for a reread! 
"I can't believe this hasn't been read yet! I'd go for a reread too. A bit dated now, but a horror classic must-read. +1
Ahh the alphabetical Previous Reads list. Thanks, That's better 😁😊
Lisa - *HowlBeSatReading*🐺 wrote: "How about I Am Legend by Richard Matheson? I couldn’t see it on the previously read list (apologies if I’ve missed it) I’d love an excuse for a reread! "The theme is Creature Feature. I Am Legend is about vampires.
Lisa - *HowlBeSatReading*🐺 wrote: "I thought they were a creature?..."It's up to Char how she would like to define the theme but I think of
Creature Features as non-human, involving animals or insects that have mutated or are mythical.
I don't wanna take away Char's reply, and I'm sure that one's coming, but already in the message is "Give me your best ideas for killer animals/science gone wrong/swarms that have lost their minds-type books!" which seems like a definition already to me.
I've got Monumental by Adam Nevill on my TBR. Maybe someone who has read it can vouch if it's a creature feature or not...
TJ (TaksBooksNSpooks on YT) wrote: "I nominate:Rats by James Herbert
Slugs by Shaun Huston"
Elly wrote: "The Mist by Stephen King"
I second The Rats
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Char wrote: "I feel like a fun creature feature this month! Give me what you got! You know the rules :)
- Any of our previous group reads are not eligible so please see post 2 below this one.
- No self auth..."
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
I know its sci-fi; but there are creatures; and this is actually kinda creepy.
Classic creature features include Dracula, the Wolf Man, and the Mummy. King Kong and the Creature from the Black Lagoon came soon after. I can understand why vampires can be considered creatures, in this original context. But I understand that this is Char's call.
Georgina wrote: "Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant"Previous group read therefore ineligible. Check message 18 before nominating.
Ninnisha|Roberta wrote: "I don't wanna take away Char's reply, and I'm sure that one's coming, but already in the message is "Give me your best ideas for killer animals/science gone wrong/swarms that have lost their minds-..."
Ultimately it will be Char's call since she's hosting the read, but the statement above sums it up perfectly for me. Mummies and vampires and the like are "creatures" but don't match the intent of the theme this month, as per what was sent in the email.
Vicky wrote: "I nominate “The Troop” by Nick Cutter"Already stated above. Previous group read. Not Eligible. See Message 18 before nominating.
I have Monumental by Adam Nevill checked out from the library. Haven’t started it yet, I tried “leafing” through it a little bit to answer both our questions without ruining anything… I don’t have an answer. If anyone can clear this up for us that would be great!
Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling. I started the ARC and I am definitely invested. I believe it comes out late October or early November. If the latter, might be better as a December nomination. -Features: unique vampire biology
-(sorry if not yet published books are not allowed)
Heather wrote: "I have Monumental by Adam Nevill checked out from the library. Haven’t started it yet, I tried “leafing” through it a little bit to answer both our questions without ruining anything… I don’t have..."
I haven't read it (though I want to) but from some reviews I've perused the cover is misleading as far as "creature feature" goes. I keep seeing 'brutal wilderness survival tale and a deeply atmospheric work of folk horror. " and "superntural" in descriptions. Unless someone else has read it and can confirm there is a "creature/creatures" I'm thinking it's prob not.
You know the rules :)
- Any of our previous group reads are not eligible so please see post 19.
- No self author promo, authors can't nominate their own books since we're keeping this fun and fair for everyone.
- Books that receive the most +1 are more likely to make it into the poll, so choose wisely if you want to support a fellow nomination :) it will have a higher chance to make it on the poll.