👻 R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XVIII Reading Challenge

It’s that time of the year again when I pick up all things spooky and dark and delicious for the next couple of months. Honestly, though, I think that’s my reading style throughout the year 😛.

However, I now join other readers doing the same thing in the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XVIII Reading Challenge that’s on until the end of October.

This challenge encourages readers to explore the suitably atmospheric genres of mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, and supernatural in the lead-up to Halloween!

You can follow the event @perilreaders on Instagram and Twitter. 

For this challenge, I have some thrillers lined up.

• The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor – A book about a vicar who moves into a village with an unusually high incidence of mysterious deaths (historical and recent). Sounds creepy and promises to deliver all the thrills that Into the Water didn’t.
• The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager – Along similar lines as The Woman in the Window and The Girl on the Train, this story is about a woman who investigates the mysterious disappearance of her neighbor. There is the trope of the unreliable narrator, the woman who snoops on her neighbor, but I am in the mood for an easy, trope-y read right now.
• Girl A by Abigail Dean – I had this book on my shelf for ages and forgot about it. When my aunt visited recently, she picked it up and then commented that it seemed loosely based on a real-life crime. Fred West and his wife, Rosemary West, were serial killers. While investigating, the police discovered many dead bodies around their home, which was then dubbed the House of Horrors. This book has a similar theme, and I am pumped to read it. But also, maybe it is just a bit too gruesome? I don’t know. Have you read this book? What do you think of it?

Are you participating in the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XVIII Reading Challenge? What do you plan to read to get into the Halloween mood?