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Embroidered Peacock Journal – Blick Some memories survive because someone decided to write them down. An embroidered journal gives those thoughts somewhere worthy of keeping, turning an everyday notebook into an object that feels meant to remain on the shelf…
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo Stories remember long after people would prefer they forget. The Fox Wife moves through folklore, mystery, grief, and revenge as lives become entangled with the old stories surrounding fox spirits. The past isn’t something…
Some Kind of Haunted by Hazel Beck Home feels different when you decide it belongs to you. Some Kind of Haunted returns to the magical world of St. Cyprian, where witches, supernatural trouble, complicated relationships, and the occasional haunting are…
Bonfire and Bliss Bookstore by Brittanee Nicole Some places become important because of what happens there. Others matter because of who makes room for you to stay. Bonfire and Bliss Bookstore brings books, community, romance, and the comfort of finding…
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi Going back doesn’t always mean returning to the place you remember. Black Mouth follows a group of childhood friends drawn back toward the secrets, trauma, and strange figure that shaped their past. What happened years…
Things for When the Dark Follows You Home Some things follow you home. Sometimes they arrive with you at the end of a long day. Others have been following for years—old memories, unfinished business, or things you thought you’d left…
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Some traditions survive because people believe in them. Others survive because someone benefits from keeping them alive. Ninth House follows Alex Stern into Yale’s secret societies, where privilege, power, and occult rituals exist beneath the…
Things Left After the Ritual The room is empty now. Whatever happened here is over, but someone left things behind. A reminder of mortality. A mirror that might have witnessed more than it should. Candleholders still standing exactly where someone…
Things the House Collected Some houses are filled with things chosen carefully over time. A picture hung slightly off-center. A lamp casting light that somehow never quite reaches the corners. Pieces of the natural world that found their way inside—and…
A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher Sometimes the unsettling thing about a house isn’t what has changed. It’s what has stayed exactly the same. A House With Good Bones follows Sam as she returns to her mother’s home…