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Candi Norwood 🧙📚🏳️‍🌈
@candikat.bsky.social
(She/her) Horror nerd, writer, reader, gamer, crafter, wife, dog and cat mom, social justice druid, cubicle dweller by day, hermit by night
https://candikathorror.com/
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It’s that time again! #HorrorMoviesForTheHolidays - a seasonal horror movie a day 11/24 - 1/2

#HorrorSky #FilmSky

Guidelines: sarahstubbssays.com/horror-movie...

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Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge: The Guidelines
The Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge encourages participants to celebrate the season by watching their favorite holiday horror movies!
sarahstubbssays.com
The first thing you'll see when googling #SlashedBeauties by A. Rushby is "Gothic feminist body horror" - and it is that, but it's also romantic and witchy and about love and loss and found family. #BookSky #PublicLibrary candikathorror.com/reads/slashed-beauties
Slashed Beauties — CandiKat Horror
The first thing you'll see when googling this book is "Gothic feminist body horror" - and it is that, but it's also romantic and witchy and about love and loss and found family.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It’s that time again! #HorrorMoviesForTheHolidays - a seasonal horror movie a day 11/24 - 1/2

#HorrorSky #FilmSky

Guidelines: sarahstubbssays.com/horror-movie...

Discord Server: discord.gg/F774EvagRj

Follow my watches here, on Letterboxd boxd.it/athh, and/or candikathorror.com
Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge: The Guidelines
The Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge encourages participants to celebrate the season by watching their favorite holiday horror movies!
sarahstubbssays.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang joins the chorus of media that takes a satirical look at influencers with the intent of showing they’re not what they seem - but she has a unique take on the modern trope that makes her novel feel fresh. #BookSky candikathorror.com/reads/julie-chan-is-dead
Julie Chan Is Dead — CandiKat Horror
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang joins the chorus of media that takes a satirical look at influencers with the intent of showing they’re not what they seem - but she has a unique take on the modern t...
candikathorror.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Just a few days away! What’s first on your list? #HorrorMoviesForTheHolidays
Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge: The Guidelines -
Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge: The Guidelines
The Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge encourages participants to celebrate the season by watching their favorite holiday horror movies!
sarahstubbssays.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reposted by Candi Norwood 🧙📚🏳️‍🌈
It’s #FridayReads time! Books make great gifts and are tastier than turkey. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) novel full of monsters, friendship, love, magic, revenge, ghosts, storms, syncretism, and maybe a bit of violence…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine by @kristinaten.bsky.social feels like that weird girl you know from school or work or the pub (which is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black) sits down next to you and starts talking. #BookSky TY #NetGalley and Stillhouse Press for the ARC. Review:
Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine — CandiKat Horror
Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine by Kristina Ten feels like that weird girl you know from school or work or the pub (which is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black) sits down next to you and st...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo is a compelling gothic horror complete with an atmospheric estate, a mysterious family legacy involving a curse, and an innocent young woman at the center. #BookSky TY #NetGalley, @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social, & @rbmediaco.bsky.social for the ARCs.
The Villa, Once Beloved — CandiKat Horror
The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo is a compelling gothic horror complete with an atmospheric estate, a mysterious family legacy involving a curse, and an innocent young woman at the center.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Film You Are About to See by Haley Newlin is a creature feature set at a 1950s Indiana drive-in showing classics like House of Wax and The Tingler while a big bug is turning moviegoers into pod people. And, yes, it is as amazing as it sounds. #BookSky
TY #NetGalley & Mad Axe Media for the ARC.
The Film You Are About to See — CandiKat Horror
The Film You Are About to See by Haley Newlin is a reality blurring creature feature set at an all-night “Dusk Til Dawn Spooktacular” at a 1950s Indiana drive-in showing classics like House of Wax and...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel is an engaging Gothic fantasy romance that spans centuries where magic can cost your soul, and the world is full of love and betrayal and curses and murder. #BookSky TY to #NetGalley and @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social for the ARC for my unbiased review:
As Many Souls as Stars — CandiKat Horror
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel is a Gothic fantasy romance about witches and demons - in particular one demon who passes generations of time waiting for one witch to be reborn so the Faustia...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
In #TheBookshopBelow, @georgiasummers.bsky.social built a world where ink is a medium for spell casting & bookshops have opinions - perfect for anyone who loves books or magic & especially both. #BookSky TY #NetGalley, @orbitbooks.bsky.social, & @hachetteaudio.bsky.social for the ARCs
The Bookshop Below — CandiKat Horror
The Bookshop Below by Georgia Summers combines two of my favorite things: bookshops and murder. That definitely doesn’t sound right, but you get it. They’re probably two of your favorite things, too.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Goth Garden by Felicia Feaster is a gorgeous art book that just happens to be packed full of history, lore, growing guidance, and uses of fifty plants and flowers to add to your very own goth garden - or at least to your bookshelf. #BookSky TY #NetGalley and Adams Media for the ARC.
The Goth Garden: The Mystery, Beauty, and Lore of Dark Gardening — CandiKat Horror
The Goth Garden by Felicia Feaster is a gorgeous art book that just happens to be packed full of history, lore, growing guidance, and uses of fifty plants and flowers to add to your very own goth gard...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#BloodTies is the perfect adventure horror romance to read while waiting for WoW: Midnight to drop or if you’ve never played the game. @christiegolden.bsky.social does a masterful job telling the story for any fantasy lover, WoW fan or not. ARC from #NetGalley & @randomhouse.bsky.social #BookSky
Blood Ties — CandiKat Horror
Blood Ties is the perfect action adventure horror romance to read while waiting for WoW: Midnight to drop or if you’ve never played the game. Christie Golden does a masterful job describing enough of ...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
#IllMakeaSpectacleofYou by Beatrice Winifred Iker is a chilling Southern Gothic folk horror novel set around the fictional Bricksbury University, a historically black college in Jonesborough, TN, in the heart of Appalachia. #BookSky TY to #NetGalley and @hachetteaudio.bsky.social for the ARC.
I’ll Make a Spectacle of You — CandiKat Horror
I’ll Make a Spectacle of You by Beatrice Winifred Iker is a chilling Southern Gothic folk horror novel primarily set in and around the fictional Bricksbury University, a historically black college in ...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner by Jennifer Hayden is a hand-drawn memoir peppered with tongue-in-cheek (but potentially technically edible if you squint) recipes about how much she hates cooking. Every single night. In perpetuity. #BookSky ARC from @idwpublishing.com for my unbiased review:
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner — CandiKat Horror
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner by Jennifer Hayden is a hand-drawn memoir peppered with tongue-in-cheek (but potentially technically edible if you squint) recipes about how much she hates cooking....
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November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#Gothic by @pfracassi.bsky.social exemplifies what I like about his writing - smart and full of self-referential humor, gruesome imagery, and engaging (if not always likeable) characters and a thrilling plot. #BookSky ARC from #NetGalley and @clashbooks.bsky.social for my unbiased review:
Gothic — CandiKat Horror
Anyone who writes anything for any reason has experienced the dead stare of a blank page at some point, and some of my favorite fiction has explored that feeling. Though comparisons to Stephen King w...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Like Peyton Place, like Derry, there is something dark under the surface of the seemingly idyllic small town of Wilson Island in Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World by @cullenbunn.bsky.social #BookSky TY to #NetGalley and Gallery Books for the ARC for my unbiased review. Full review:
Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World — CandiKat Horror
Like Peyton Place, like Derry, there is something dark under the surface of the seemingly idyllic small town of Wilson Island. Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World by Cullen Bunn is an engrossing t...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#ShinyHappyPeople is perfect for introducing new horror readers to something approachable but still scary enough for more seasoned horror fans and with all the dark humor we’ve come to expect from @claymcleod.bsky.social. TY #NetGalley and Delacorte for the ARC. #BookSky Full Review:
Shiny Happy People — CandiKat Horror
The teenage years can be hard. You have to worry about dating and friendships and family and things and people changing, growing, and it can feel like everyone is moving on without you and you’re all ...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Version 3 of the game that launched my favorite system (Powered by the Apocalypse aka PbtA) #TTRPG #Kickstarter
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#TheHouseofIllusionists by Vanessa Fogg is a charming collection of speculative stories about love, connection, family, life, death, and more. #BookSky ARC from #NetGalley and @interstellarflight.bsky.social for my honest review:
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November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Lindy Ryan has done the improbable, which is to make me grateful that my day job is so pedestrian - unlike the Evans family in Another Fine Mess (follow-up to the hilarious Bless Your Heart), I rarely have to deal with the undead.
#BookSky
Full review:
candikathorror.com/reads/another-fine-mess
Another Fine Mess — CandiKat Horror
A mix of horror, mystery, and dark humor, with a dash of nostalgia thanks to the mid-90s setting, this second entry in the Bless Your Heart series is as comforting as a cozy mystery - though the body ...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#ThePlaceWhereTheyBuriedYourHeart by @christinahenry.bsky.social is not only a legitimately scary story, but running through it is an undercurrent of grief and guilt and a fraught mother-daughter relationship. TY to #NetGalley and @berkleypub.bsky.social for the ARC. Happy Book Birthday! #BookSky
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart — CandiKat Horror
Every neighborhood has a haunted house, and in thirteen-year-old Jessie’s neighborhood, that’s the McIntyre place, and like any teenager, she just wants her eight-year-old brother Paul to go away so s...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#StoryGraph October summary #BookSky Reviews at candikathorror.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“Stories are medicine,” says Cynthia Pelayo in her story, “We Women Speak of Wolves” from #Howl, the new werewolf anthology edited by Lindy Ryan & Stephanie M. Wytovich,& reading these stories made me feel the truth in that. #BookSky TY #NetGalley & Black Spot Books for the ARC
Howl — CandiKat Horror
“Stories are medicine,” says Cynthia Pelayo in her story, “We Women Speak of Wolves” from Howl, the new werewolf anthology edited by Lindy Ryan and Stephanie M. Wytovich, and reading these stories mad...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
#Hazelthorn by C. G. Drews is a Gothic tale with a crumbling mansion and creepy family members, and modern trappings such as a queer romance, botanical body horror, and being othered - so, yes, it is right up my alley. #BookSky TY #NetGalley and @rbmediaco.bsky.social for the ARC.
Hazelthorn — CandiKat Horror
Hazelthorn by C. G. Drews is a Gothic tale complete with the classics, a crumbling mansion, mysterious atmosphere, and creepy family members, and modern trappings such as a queer romance, botanical bo...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It’s All Hallows’ Eve Eve, and if you haven’t read enough to curb your creepy cravings, I recommend these short story collections, new and classic, that you still have time to dip into before the bell strikes November! #Horror #HorrorAnthology #HorrorShortStories
October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM