All My Favourite Horror Books

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[thewolfandherbooks]

"horror isn't a genre; it's a feeling."

[beaubooks]

The distinction you made between events that are scary to the reader and things that are scary to the characters made me realise I much prefer the former. Thank you for this list, I got some great recommendations from it! ❤

[mjswan]

POV: you’ve never read any of those books and have heard Kayla talk about them countless times but you still enjoy an hour of listening to her talk about them yet again (also the graphic design for the book attribute stickers is top notch)

[annabananabones]

Reading Carrie made me feel overwhelmed with hopelessness. I felt trapped in her circumstance with her mother and her peers. I have never wanted to give someone a hug more than Carrie

[sofiastj]

"Low plot, high ambiguity" is just my life

[KatieColson]

Not only did I love this video because of the subject matter but the satisfaction I got by having read so many of these and loving basically all of them. I feel accomplished. 👩🏻‍🏫

[HeatherB]

How are you so smart and always so succinct in your synopses of books? It is truly something to admire. ❤️

[c.j.cranford]

I'm one of those "never, ever going to pick these up because horror is not my thing" people, but I love watching all your videos! It helps me as a librarian to hear about books to recommend outside my normal genres, plus I enjoy hearing your descriptions of why you like certain things.

[bookofdust]

Phenomenal job, I really liked the badges and was so happy to see Our Wives Under the Seas on the list, one of the books that has resonated the longest with me over this year.

[michelles.]

I enjoyed how you describe each book without giving away too much information. Your passion for reading and choice of words in your reviews made me make a list of books I want to read and got me following your site to see more reviews

[wickedbookwitch]

So wild how you interpreted The Hollow Places. That book scared the crap out of me! I never once thought it was silly or cozy haha! Thanks again for a great roundup of horror.

[booksbyandby]

Oh I really LOVE the way you did this video. 😍The coin idea was so nice and easy to understand. Then breaking them down into the three levels: world encompassing horror, limited space horror and horror of the mind.. so brilliant. Well done!

[rayniebee]

I love love love the format of this video; the whole exploring a genre with a view to the styles and tropes that draw you to them and how they all touch on those. The medallions are so fun and helpful. Love it!

[KristinKravesBooks]

I loved the way you organized this. Such a good mix of recommendations!

[samantharose]

I appreciated the spectrum of all-encompassing to within-the-mind! Also the coins !! such a nice visual

[elizabethgordon]

Thank you for calling comfort me with apples a horror!! Totally agree and I think it's silly that people don't think that. Also this thing between us sounds like citizen Kane and I'm totally down to read it.

[theadora]

I don't really understand that, the intent of horror only being to personally scare you. When you read romance books, are you meant to personally fall in love? When you read fantasy, do we expect to get powers? People treat horror sooo strangely to me. I really like what you do in this video, though! It's nice to see just more conversations around horror instead of just "scary or nah". Horror is so much more complex than that.

[krisprepolec]

As someone who read Cujo for her 7th grade book report in the 80’s I am so happy to see horror having a moment. I have always enjoyed my community of horror weirdos, and excited to share the weirdness with a larger group. Read to please your dark little heart 🖤

[avsambart]

I needed this. A lot of horror books I've read this month have not been it for me. So this is perfect!! I'm glad you seperated "scary for the reader" and "scary for the characters" because I learnt this month I need books that scare me, the reader. Literally do not care if it scares the character.

[RichardDominguezTheMagicIsReal]

Great List, I wrote down 13 of them to pickup when I head out to the book store.