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Every year in February it has become a tradition of mine to read horror.

What is on my list currently is "A House With Good Bones" by T Kingfisher, "The Loney" by Andrew Michael Hurley and "Living Dead Girl" by Elizabeth Scott. I am looking for a possible 4th or 5th to read. Any suggestions?

How do you feel about reading tragic animal books?

I am torn between wanting more animal stories, rooted in my deep love for other-than-human animals, and fearing the darkness, sorrow, grief, pain, and terror they bring.

I don't feel the same about human tragedy. Those books can break me, but I am never afraid to read them. Nothing leaves me a whimpering puddle like the tragedy of other animals, since childhood.

Story 5- vigilante schaudenfreude? 2
Story 6- Benjamin Button for perverts -1

What is "horror" about this collection? Perhaps, like a train-wreck the desire to keep reading it, to see how awfully stupid it can actually get. At this point even the style of Palahniuk's wrting (which is what kept me going in the first place) is heading downhill.

Story 4- eh- reminds me of Gwyneth Paltrow and her poverty food stunt - 2

The overall story is compared to and inspired by the time Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori spent on vacation telling ghost stories. The masterpiece "Frankenstein" came out of this night as well as Polodori's conception of "The Vampyre".

This book and these stories are not that.

Story 1- 🤮 sorry but no thanks, not into it at all 0
Story 2- is this horror? 2
Story 3- what? 2

I have read 4 stories so far, and only liked 1. Many aren't folk horror, more sci fi, amd one is a crime mafia boss thing with a character called Paga Yaga which made me want to throw my phone. What a horrible take on Baba Yaga. Vomit.

Self help, self love... bad things happen for a reason, as a lesson, to make you grow... yadda yadda why am I reading this? Gill has a gift for instapoetry.

Favourite folktales so far: (I have read some of them out of order)

"Sorrow"
"Vasalisa the fair"
"The Feigned Illness"
"The Enchanted Princess"
"The Wood Goblin"
"For a Bast Shoe, a Hen; For a Hen, a Goose"
"The Animals in the Pit"
"The Bear"
"Baba Yaga"
"Baba Yaga and the runt"

Miller's protective bath formula includes Vinegar, salt and ammonia...While I believe ammonia and vinegar would neutralize each other to some extent, I really see no sane reason as to why ammonia would be used in a protective bath... very odd. Please, use common sense. Protective herbs like Rosemary and Sage make much more sense in a protective bath, smell a lot nicer, and are much more practical and safe.

What. Is. This? Just. What? I am so close to giving up,