October 2024 Spooky Season Reads

 Face Your Fear...

 

Are you ready? Find your next spooky season read based on these phobias:

 

 

 Leporiphobia - fear of rabbits

 

If you want to face your fear, try Bunny

by: Mona Awad

 

Vibes: 

surreal, psychedelic, trippy, dark academia, unhinged women

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9780525559757

Chapodiphobia - fear of octopuses

 

If you want to face your fear, try

The Mountain in the Sea

by: Ray Nayler

 

Vibes: 

isolation , linguistics, artificial intelligence, the ocean, Arrival

 

 

 

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781250872272

 

 

Hotatsophobia - fear of lighthouses

 

If you want to face your fear, try Annihilation

by: Jeff Vandermeer  

Vibes:

 nature, doppelgangers, weird, made into a movie

 

 

 

 

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9780374104092 

Tokophobia - fear of pregnancy

If you want to face your fear, try Delicate Condition

by: Danielle Valentine

 

Vibes: 

thriller, gaslighting, the Hamptons, American Horror Story

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781728297682 

 

 

Ommetaphobia - fear of eyes

If you want to face your fear, try
The Eyes Are The Best Part 

by: Monika Kim 

Vibes: 

serial killer, female rage, Korean American, mukbang

   

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781645661238

 

Erythrophobia - fear of the color red
If you want to face your fear, try                       
Rouge by: Mona Awad

 
 Vibes:
Skincare, Med spas, Cults,
Colorism, dark fairy tale retelling

         

  

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781982169701

Cynophobia - fear of dogs
 If you want to face your fear, try 

 Nightbitch by: Rachel Yoder 
 
Vibes: 
Motherhood, Transformation, Satirical, dark humor, upcoming movie 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9780593312148

Athazagoraphobia - fear of forgetting or being forgotten

 

If you want to face your fear, try 

The Memory Police 

by: Yoko Ogawa  

Vibes:

magical realism

Story-within-a-story

translated from Japanese

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781101911815

Phasmophobia - fear of ghosts

 

If you want to face your fear, try  

Diavola 

by: Jennifer Thorne

 

Vibes: Gothic, dark humor, slow burn horror, resident black-sheep-of-the-family 

 

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781250826121

 

 Deinophobia - fear of dinosaurs 

If you want to face your fear, try 

The Paleontologist

 by: Luke Dumas 

Vibes: Spooky atmosphere, haunted and abandoned, museum, mystery

 

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781668018262

 

Hemophobia - fear of blood 

If you want to face your fear, try So Thirsty 

by: Rachel Harrison 

Vibes: mid-life crisis, bad influence friendships, "I support women's

                wrongs" vibe 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9780593642542

 

Coimetrophobia - fear of cemeteries

 If you want to face your fear, try Graveyard Shift

by: M.L. Rio

Vibes: mystery, atmospheric horror, found family, will leave you hungry for more 

 

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781250356796

 

Ososphobia - fear of cannibalism

If you want to face your fear, try A Certain Hunger by: Chelsea G. Summers 

Vibes: 

Satirical, feminine superiority, girl dinner, body horror, black widow behavior

 

 

Buy Book Here: https://eagleeyebooks.com/book/9781951213435