Looking for an October creep-read?

The Compound, The Night Guest, and the Ghost Wall fit the bill!

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Yikes! Aisling Rawle’s first book, The Compound, was a good read. Perhaps I should qualify this assessment by admitting I have been addicted to reality TV storylines since the genre was invented, but The Compound is a gorgeous mash-up of reality TV dating in a post-apocalyptic reality.

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Our devilish book club chose The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir as our October read, and I’ll never forgive them. This novella is particularly unsafe for anyone who, say, tracks their steps with a watch or, for example, loves cats, sisters, or Iceland. But it is also an excellent October creep-read.

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Despite having no ghosts, no walls, and very few bog people, Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall was creepy and addictive, with menace lurking around every tree. The story is centered on an Iron Age reenactment that takes place in Northern England, and I was hooked from the first chapter.