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Genre: Non-fiction, Essays, Memoir Published by: Harper Perennial Publish date: October 7, 2025 Number of pages: 240 pages Author’s website: https://zefyrlisowski.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A sharply personal and expansive essay collection dedicated to the strange and absurd beauty of horror films, exploring the complications of gender, the insidiousness of class ascension, and the …
Photo credit: Sara Nicole Lemon Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Queer Fiction Published by: Harper Voyager Publish date: September 9, 2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://kosokojackson.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A picture is worth a thousand nightmares. A struggling painter, Lewis Dixon is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in …
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ALA Store Genre: Anthology, Essays, Non-Fiction, Biography/Memoir Published by: S&S/Saga Press Publish date: September 23, 2025 Number of pages: 272 pages Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A captivating anthology and heartfelt tribute to the horror genre featuring essays from several of the most celebrated contemporary horror writers including, Grady Hendrix, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham …
Genre: YA, Queer Horror Published by: PUSH Publish date: September 16, 2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://www.ryanlasala.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Two Days Before Ollie Veltman is finally coming home to the quaint island of Anchor’s Mercy after a year away while his mom battled cancer. It should be a celebration …
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Lula King Photo & Film Genre: Memoir Published by: Pegasus Books Publish date: April 1, 2025 Number of pages: pages Author’s website: https://www.rachelphan.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A warm and poignant narrative about finding one’s self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter’s attempts to connect with parents …
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Genre: Thriller, LGBTQIA+ Published by: William Morrow Publish date: 18 March 2025 Number of pages: 320 pages Author’s website: https://www.hannahdeitch.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride follows two unlikely fugitives—an SAT tutor who finds her rich employers brutally murdered and the bound woman she frees from their mansion—an …
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Author Photo By Beowulf Sheehan Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Knopf Publish date: January 23, 2024 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://kavehakbar.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided …
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/152689/grady-hendrix/ Genre: Horror, Thriller Published by: Berkley Publish date: January 14, 2025 Number of pages: 496 pages Author’s website: http://www.gradyhendrix.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where …
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Rating: 3/5 Genre: Memoir A natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion -- and falling in love -- by the publisher of Pipette Magazine. It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the French windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of …
What is a Final Girl? The term "final girl" was coined by Carol J. Clover in her article "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film" (1987) and expanded upon in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A final girl in cinema is a woman or girl who …
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