October is synonymous with spooky season. This expression, which in English means something like “chilling season”, floods social networks since the beginning of autumn with videos of recommendations with possible plans that can be made at this time of year. From trips, to themed meetings with friends, through horror movies that can be seen during the night of halloween (the quintessential celebration of this season).
But scary movies and costume parties aren’t for everyone. So if your thing is to stay at home with a blanket, a hot coffee and a book in your hand, what we bring today will interest you. We leave you a list of recommended readings for this weekend, with which to put the finishing touch to the spooky season.
‘The Secret Society of Rebel Witches’, by Sangu Mandanna
If yours is cozy fantasythis book is perfect for you. This genre is characterized by presenting comforting and gentle stories, in contrast to epic fantasy or darker adventures, and is gaining more and more popularity among young readers, especially in booktok.
The Secret Society of Rebel Witches mix romance, magic and tenderness and tells the story of Mika Moona lonely witch who will turn her life upside down after finding a new and extravagant family. In their world, witches abide by three unbreakable rules: hide your magic, keep your head down, and stay away from other witches. When Mika receives an unexpected message begging her to travel to the mansion Nowhere House to teach three girls to control their powers, their lives will change forever.
If you break the rules, you accept the challenge
The secret society of rogue witches has it all: magic, secrets, and a simmering romance.
Your perfect reading for summer
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— Penguin Chile (@penguinlibroscl) January 25, 2024
‘How to Sell a Haunted House’ by Grady Hendrix
If you want to be a little scared, Grady Hendrix’s new release may interest you. The bestselling author of New York Times addresses in his new novel the haunted house classicwhere he explores to what extent the past and family They can terrify us more than anything else.
How to sell a haunted house It begins when Louise learns that her parents have died and is afraid to return home. The protagonist does not want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. He doesn’t want to face the family home, where his family’s memories are piled up. But getting rid of the home will not be an easy task for her and her brother Mark. There are houses that cannot be sold, and yours will need more than a lick of paint for someone to be interested in it.
I have finished “How to Sell a Haunted House” for my purpose of reading something horror these days, and it doesn’t reinvent the wheel or anything but it is a good little book about haunted houses and family traumas. pic.twitter.com/beCsLykXE0
— We are XaVenom (@AllnewXSase) October 25, 2024
‘Carmona’, by Layla Martínez
Woodworm It is perhaps one of the most interesting books that literature in Spanish has left us in recent years. Layla Martínez’s first novel enters fully into a house inhabited by absent presences and present absences. Starting from a story, a priori of terroraddresses issues as complex as they are important, such as patriarchal violencethe class issue wave historical memory.
We leave you the synopsis: The walls of this house lost in the wasteland speak of voices that emerge from under the beds, of saints that appear on the kitchen ceiling, of disappearances that are never resolved. The neighbors disown their two inhabitants in the light of day, but everyone comes to them when no one sees them. Grandma spends her days talking to the shadows that live behind the walls and inside the closets. The granddaughter returns home after an incident with the richest family in town. Now, unraveling the history of the house, they have begun to realize that the shadows that inhabit it were always on their side.
“Carcoma” by Layla Martínez, is a novel that can be read in one go. Rural Spain that writhes in hatred, like the house, the protagonist of the story along with the women who live in it. Ghosts, magical realism and a lot of class literature. Edited by @AmordemadreEd pic.twitter.com/k8AhA3beMe
— Alejandro Hernández (@beguemot83) October 24, 2024
‘Only you will have me’, by Toni Muñoz
A non-fiction book about a real case could not be missing from this list. The chosen one focuses on the crime of the Urban Guarda case that shocked Spanish society and which continues to be talked about, especially after the success of the Netflix series The body on firebased on this book.
The journalist of The Vanguard,Toni Muñoz, compiles in Only you will have me the story of Pedro Rodriguez, Pear Rose and Albert Lopezas well as everything that the investigation uncovered then: lies, cover-ups, parallel relationships, episodes of police violence, revenge porn, manipulations and botched attempts to divert attention. If you don’t know anything about the case, this book is a good starting point.
‘A sunny place for gloomy people’, by Mariana Enríquez
Mariana Enríquez’s latest book is perfect for this time of year. On the one hand, because they are short stories that can be read at any time. On the other hand, because they follow the very special style in which Enríquez has specialized: using the terror and it supernatural as tools to explore and delve into complex and dark social issues.
“Whoever dares to delve into the pages of this book will feel a chill running down their spine, and a few other things. There are twelve horror stories, twelve stories about horror: about the evil that lurks and the monsters that suddenly emerge in the most everyday reality, in large cities or small remote towns,” the synopsis states.
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A sunny place for gloomy people – Mariana Enriquez
I have a “slight” obsession with Enriquez, yes. Twelve stories of contemporary horror and body horror that captivate with their immersive narrative.
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— Kai (@kaibierge) August 28, 2024
And you? What book do you recommend for spooky season?
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