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Strange Pictures by Uketsu
Now this, I get. After finishing Strange Pictures, I finally understand the hype around Uketsu. This one just worked better for me. It is indeed darker and way more unsettling. The tension is quieter than most horror, but the unease never lets up. I appreciate how it trusted the reader to stay uncomfortable without overexplaining. 💁🏻♀️ What I loved most is that it still feels grounded in real-life fears. There’s obsession, loss, and the super blurry line between what we see and what we believe. It’s sad, tbh, and just ambiguous enough to keep you thinking after you turn the last page.
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Mexican Gothic by Sylvia-Moreno Garcia
Mexican Gothic follows the story of Noemi Taboada, a glam, rich kid (tbh, sana all??) living her life freely in the city - partying, hanging out with friends, drinking, smoking. His father received this weird letter from her cousin, Catalina who married a man from the countryside. Catalina talked about how his husband was poisoning her, she talked about ghosts, spiders, snakes, and everything creepy. Noemi's dad suspects Catalina should be needing a psychiatrist so just to be sure, he convinced Noemi to visit the countryside and check on Catalina. Noemi went, though when she arrived, Catalina's new home felt creepy and old and weird. Noemi's stay in the mansion…
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If It Bleeds by Stephen King
I read small parts of the book and huge part of it I listened to. Thanks to the free trial of Scribd, I was able to multi-task while enjoying a very nice performance of If It Bleeds by Stephen King, narrated by Will Patton, Danny Burstein, and Steven Weber. I was listening at the speed of 1.2x and it’s just so good I understood every word. Except from the part Life of Chuck where I was kinda lost.
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Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Before chapter one, there's one page that says some apparently a act from an old version of a dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary, compact edition, 1971. Even if you're not a housewife, (I am not either) it's triggering a not-so-good mood but an effective way to turn the page and get on with your reading. The thought-proving parts of any book are one super effective way to make its readers invested and actually finish the book, whether they liked it or not. The first parts of the book (all parts, tbh) made me sooo annoyed with the lead, Patricia, that I finished the book earlier than expected. These days, because…
