5-Star Books in 5 Words – Horror
Welcome back to 5-Star Books in 5 Words!
The Wyrd and Wonder team are back again with a mini-event to for the spooky season – celebrating 13 days of horror and dark fantasy from October 19th until midnight on Hallowe’en. They’ve come up with prompts again, and they’ve got some read-alongs you can join in with.
We love joining in the Wyrd and Wonder events, so we decided we’d bring you our favourite spooky and scary reads!
We’d love to hear your five-star recommendations too! Comment below.
Huge thanks to our contributors for their brilliant suggestions!
Nils
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| Creepy | Childhood | Fucked |
| Topiary | Mystery | Up |
| Madness | Ghosts | Christmasland |
| Isolation | Nostalgic | Surreal |
| Claustrophobic | Haunted | Gory |
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| Atmospheric | Fairytale |
| Gothic | Monsters |
| Graveyard | Historical |
| Unsettling | War |
| Spirits | Tragic |
Graeme
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| Come | Gothic | Cosmic |
| Gaze | Romance | Horror’s |
| Into | With | Racist |
| The | Serial | Grandad |
| Funhole | Killers | Squidman |
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| Worms | The |
| And | Play |
| Ghosts | Is |
| Inside | The |
| You | Thing |
Julia
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| Zombies | Visions | Creepy |
| Virus | Of | Sanatorium |
| Running | Future | Insanity |
| Biting | Murder | YA-Horror |
| Ouchy | Victims | Dread |
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| Ghost | Ghosts |
| Taking | Murder |
| Over | Drugs |
| Someone’s | Power |
| Body | Occult |
Filip
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| Stephen | Pugilist | Not |
| King | Takes | The |
| Modernises | On | Best |
| Nightmare | Lovecraft-y | Pandemic |
| Vampires | Boiz | Read |
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| A | Leonardo |
| Downwards | Da |
| Spiral | Vinci |
| To | But |
| Despair | Demonic! |
James
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| KKK | Brave | Spookiest |
| Monsters | Warrior | Baddies |
| Are | Visits | In |
| Actual | Creepy | All |
| Monsters | Hell | Fantasy |
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| City | Demons |
| Where | Darkness |
| Gods | And |
| Went | Gorgeous |
| Mad | Prose |
Jonathan
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| Queer | Madness | No |
| Indian | Schizophrenia | Escape |
| Werewolves | Or | From |
| Beautifully | Alternate | Nightmarish |
| Written | Realities? | Possession |
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| Seeing | Trauma |
| Beyond | Madness |
| The | Metamorphosis |
| Veil – | Unreliable |
| Dangerous! | Narrator |
Beth
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| Dystopian | Gothic | Dark |
| Parallel-world | Outlier | Fairy |
| What | Deaths | Tales |
| Is | And | Gothically |
| Real? | Curses | Reimagined |
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The Sandman |
| Bloodrites | Uncanny |
| Bring | Doppelganger |
| Forth | Automatons |
| Terrifying | Freudian |
| Gods | Insanity |
