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message 1: by destiny ♡ (new)

destiny ♡ howling libraries (howlinglibraries) | 412 comments Mod


Hi, friends! It's time for our October readathon! This one is going from Sunday, October 19th to Saturday, October 25th.

Since it's almost my favorite holiday, the optional prompts are...
🎃 read something spooky (your interpretation is fine)
🎃 read something with orange or black on the cover

Post your TBR and progress updates whenever you're ready, here or in the Discord server (or both). Happy reading!

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/bb9tXDXMZf

STORYGRAPH: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading...


message 2: by Icy-Cobwebs-Crossing-SpaceTime (last edited Oct 25, 2025 01:34PM) (new)

Icy-Cobwebs-Crossing-SpaceTime (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 77 comments Laughing about "reading something spooky"; what do I ever read that isn't? Even my SF is Spooky!🛸🚀🎃

TBR: Spooky Crowfield House: A chilling gothic mystery that will keep you up all night KU
The House on Dogwood Court KU
The Bothell Hell House: Poltergeist of Washington State Mount TBR
Within These Haunted Walls KU

Orange/Black: The 31st Trick-or-Treater (October 19-25 Chapters) KU


10/19: The 31st Trick-or-Treater October 19 to p. 207
The Haunting of Hill House. Chapter per day to p.
The House on Dogwood Court
DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE


10/20: The 31st Trick-or-Treater October 20 to p. 217
The House on Dogwood Court
Usher II Censorship Horror/Classic Horror. From The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury , Orange/Black Prompt
The Bothell Hell House: Poltergeist of Washington State. Mount TBR. To p. 16.
Crowfield House: A chilling gothic mystery that will keep you up all night to p. 8.
Outskirts of the Family: A Rogue AI Short Story Hoopla Virtual Spooky SF


10/21: The 31st Trick-or-Treater October 21 to p. 222
It Came from the Pumpkin Patch. KU to p. 27 Orange/Black Cover
The Haunting of Hill House through p. 119

10/22: The 31st Trick-or-Treater October 21 to p. 229
It Came from the Pumpkin Patch. To p. 177

10/23: The 31st Trick-or-Treater October 21 to p. 246
Ulalume
It Came from the Pumpkin Patch .
The Halloween Tree
Night in the Lonesome October: Mount TBR. Chapters 1-2
Dark Spirits: The Watcher KU to p. 43

10/24: The 31st Trick-or-Treater October
24
Night in the Lonesome October Chapters 3-4
Dark Spirits: The Watcher to p. 169

10/25: The 31st Trick-or-Treater October
25
Night in the Lonesome October
Chapters 5-6
Dark Spirits: The Watcher
I Killed an Eldritch Terror on My Camping Trip: A Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror Novel KU



Prompt:
Spooky🎃👻:
DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE
The House on Dogwood Court
Outskirts of the Family: A Rogue AI Short Story Psychologically Spooky
Ulalume Mythologically Spooky
It Came from the Pumpkin Patch
Dark Spirits: The Watcher Occult Horror/Paranormal

Orange/Black: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
It Came from the Pumpkin Patch
Black (and White) Cover: Dark Spirits: The Watcher

Titles Read: DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE
Outskirts of the Family: A Rogue AI Short Story
The House on Dogwood Court
Usher II
Ulalume
It Came from the Pumpkin Patch
The Halloween Tree
Dark Spirits: The Watcher


message 3: by Lauri (last edited Oct 23, 2025 10:46PM) (new)

Lauri (otwlauri) | 52 comments Lauri’s Spot!
Unexpected Readathon Time
October 19 - 25, 2025
Target: 1000 pages

Optional prompts:
🎃 read something spooky (your interpretation is fine)
🎃 read something with orange or black on the cover

Sun 10/19: 266

Mon 10/20: 97

Tues 10/21: 97

Wed 10/22: 98

Thurs 10/23:

Fri 10/24:

Sat 10/25:

Total pages read: 558

Books used:

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp (Miss Sharp Investigates, #1) by Leonie Swann Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Ashen Winter (Ashfall, #2) by Mike Mullin When the Grits Hit the Fan (Country Store Mysteries, #3) by Maddie Day Supernatural Hawaii by Judi Thompson The Little Shop of Found Things (Found Things, #1) by Paula Brackston The Journeyer by Gary Jennings

Books finished:


message 4: by Glenda (last edited Oct 25, 2025 03:52PM) (new)

Glenda | 89 comments My favorite time of year! :)
Goals: Finish current reads The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste Face It by Debbie Harry
TBR options: A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) by Hafsah Faizal Blood Games by Richard Laymon Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi Cannibal Creator by Chad Lutzke No One Gets Out Alive by Adam L.G. Nevill Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn

Sun 10/19 A Tempest of Tea 33 pgs
The Haunting of Velkwood 72 pgs

Mon 10/20 The Haunting of Velkwood 70 pgs, finished
Blood Games 106 pgs

Tues 10/21 Face It 50 pgs
Five Bizarre Neighbors: A Collection of Slow-Burn Psychological Horror Stories Fueled by Paranoia and Dread 23 pgs

Wed 10/22 Blood Games 47 pgs
Face It 134 pgs, finished

Thu 10/23 A Flytrap Fiasco 35 pgs
Five Bizarre Neighbors: A Collection of Slow-Burn Psychological Horror Stories Fueled by Paranoia and Dread 77 pgs, finished

Fri 10/24 A Flytrap Fiasco 41 pgs, finished

Sat 10/25

Totals


message 5: by Mr Pink Ink (last edited Oct 23, 2025 02:37AM) (new)

Mr Pink Ink (mrpinkink) | 39 comments I'm in!

TBR: Too Old For This by Samantha Downing The Unwoven Warrior by Jon Keevy The Picasso Heist by James Patterson

PRHSA readalong: Glorious Rivals (The Grandest Game, #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Optional prompts:
Black on the cover - The Seven Wonders Stories about witches (Mirari Annuals Book 1) by Nadia Cassim
Something Spooky - I'll have to search my kindle but there might be something spooky in The Seven Wonders

Current read: Glorious Rivals p, 59 & Unwoven Warrior

Sun: 8 & 27
Mon: 7 & 71
Tues: 55
Wed: 51
Thu:
Fri:
Sat:

Total pages: 219
Books:

Happy reading!


message 6: by destiny ♡ (last edited Oct 22, 2025 09:06PM) (new)


message 7: by Alex (last edited Oct 21, 2025 09:45AM) (new)

Alex (simonlorden) | 3 comments Current reads to finish (or DNF):
Blackouts
High-Risk Homosexual
Sorcery and Small Magics

Blackouts by Justin Torres High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1) by Maiga Doocy

For an overlapping readathon starting on Oct 23:
One for Sorrow
Dollhouse
Gaslight
Our Wives Under the Sea
Ossuary

One for Sorrow (Isabel Fielding, #1) by Sarah A. Denzil Dollhouse (Dark Carousel #1) by Anya Allyn Gaslight by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Ossuary by T.D. Cloud

(All books in the second group could qualify for 'spooky', and almost all of them have black on the cover.)

day 1 (19):
- like 250-300 pages of Voyage of the Damned (finished, 5 stars)

day 2 (20):
-

day 3 (21):
- started Blackouts

day 4 (22):

day 5 (23):

day 6 (24):

day 7 (25):


message 8: by Jenn (last edited Oct 21, 2025 03:59PM) (new)

Jenn (tellingmelies) | 23 comments Completely forgot to post here!

Unexpected Readathon Time!
10/19-10/25
Optional Prompts: something spooky/ orange or black cover


10/19: The Last Time I Lied - 82 pgs
10/20: The Last Time I Lied - 178 pgs (finished)
10/21: Haunted Ever After - 325 pgs (finished)
10/22:
10/23:
10/24:
10/25:

Pages read: 585

Books completed: The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager Haunted Ever After (Boneyard Key, #1) by Jen DeLuca


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