10 Suspense, Horror, Mystery Books for Halloween

‘When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client.’

It’s October! 🍂

It’s Autumn so all is good! 🎃

Today, I’m jumping straight into these 10 books in the Suspense, Horror, Gothic, and Mystery section, this post was originally posted on 2023… but now, just in time for Halloween. 👻 We go again, with extra books as bonus.

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Shadowhunter Chronicles News: Late to the party?

OMG. OMG. Oh by the Angel! 🤗

I’m totally fangirling right now, and I don’t care if I’m late to the party, or don’t know when this was first announced, it is still not out, and I have a lot of reading to re-do and to catch-on.

I saw a new novel in the Shadowhunter world is coming in 2026, and is the one that I was hoping for… 🎊 even if it is the last trilogy of the Shadowhunter books, and I’m sad about that, I still cannot wait!

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Five Fingers Book Challenge pt. 2

The 5 Fingers Book Challenge is back… now to pick other 5 books. 📖✋️

Hello, dearies! Welcome to a new book challenge! 😊

For this second round I went with books that I don’t have on paperback but I wish I did. 📚

So, I don’t have a photo of my hand on each book as last time, but that is okay, too. 😆 Regardless, the basics remain, and each finger is for a book.

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The Bane Chronicles: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

“What do you do?” the woman asked.
“This and that,” Magnus said.
“Are you in fashion? You look like you’re in fashion.”
“No,” he said. “I am fashion.”

Or a Friday Flashback! 📚

Hello, dearies! Welcome back to the Shadow World! 💙

I had stopped posting about The Bane Chronicles, story by story, but here I am again, The Fall of the Hotel Dumort was next in line after Saving Raphael Santiago, and it could be said it follows: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort.

Author: Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

Collection: The Bane Chronicles

Number in Collection: 7

Genres: Supernatural. Shadowhunters. Short Story. Vampires. Warlocks.

Who? Well, Magnus Bane

Shadow World

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Throwback Thursday: City of Ashes

“No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”

Hello, dearies! Welcome to a New TBT!

Title: City of Ashes

Genres: Fantasy. Young Adult. Romance. Paranormal. Urban Fantasy.

Book Saga: The Mortal Instruments Book #2

Author: Cassie Clare

Page count: 453 pages

Year Published: 2008

Families: Lightwood. Fairchild. Morgenstern. Herondale.

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Friday Flashback: Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices)

“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who’s trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”

Wow, that took me back, just thinking about it for a second.

Hello, dearies! 🩷

Did you know I am Shadowhunter fan? No? Really? You must know, surely.

Anywho… Clockwork Angel, another one from the Shadow World that I started reading, put down, picked it up again, thought about about what it was about, tried hard to get into what was happening in those first pages, and then when I got it a bit, I started reading full-steam ahead. It was like the world opened up and dropped me in London.

Too much?

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Unchained by A Forbidden Love [Eternal Mates #15] Book Review

Unchained by a Forbidden Love had me hooked from the start with its angst and intensity, but repetitive moments and a bit too much inner monologue kept it just shy of a perfect 5. Still, Fuery’s story and that eternal love were worth every page.

If it is not an easy 5, I have to give it 4.

Book: Unchained by a Forbidden Love

Series: Eternal Mates #15

Author: Felicity Heaton

Page count: 290

Genres: Fantasy. Romance. Paranormal. Fae. Shapeshifters. Dark Elves.

I wanted to give this one 5 so badly, and the first 10% to 60% I read non stop, there it was the juicy part and the angst, the falling for the characters.

Hello, dearies! 💜

I started off this one without any greeting but I had to get it out first. Well then… what was missing in Unchained by a Forbidden Love? What made me rethink and not go for the top rating? Probably the repetitive moments or long internal dialogues.

I get it, they were necessary at some points to convey the dilemma of Fuery, not so much with Shaia, she was a bit annoying to be honest.

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Marked by an Assassin [Eternal Mates #8] Book Review

That book was not what I was expecting… sadly.

Well, that was anticlimactic.

Welcome, dearies! 📖

I have finished reading another Eternal Mates book, number 8 this time. Marked by an Assassin. At first I was not going to read this one, but I wanted to know something so I went back to it, I should, maybe, perhaps, followed my first instinct.

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Tempted by a Rogue Prince 🤴 Review?

‘Unwilling to fall under the control of anyone ever again, Vail must escape before the Fifth King can use him as a pawn in a deadly game of revenge.’

Author: Felicity Heaton

Series: Eternal Mates

Genres: Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Fantasy, Demons, Fae, Vampires… romance 😎

5⭐

Hello, dearies! 🌹

I recently finished Tempted by a Rogue Prince (Eternal Mates #3) by Felicity Heaton, I read this one fast and through the night, not because I didn’t like it, oh no, no. By the time I realised it I was so engrossed by this story that I was actually surprised. It’s been some time since that happened to me.

Spoilers ahead.

About TBARP

I’ll talk and say it all that comes to mind now, so please, if you intend on reading the book and be shocked and surprised by it, this post it’s not for you, look at the pretty cover and go get a copy of the book to read, and then come back once you have read. 🙂💖

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Spoiler Time Sunday: Outrageous questions about City of Bones

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones the first Shadowhunter Novel.

Hello, dearies! ➰

It’s me Sela, I don’t normally introduce myself like that. 😳But sometimes, there’s someone new on the blog, so hello! 👋

Today’s special spoiler time Sunday, will be for City of Bones, which is book #1 in The Mortal Instruments series, I basically answered one of the outrageous questions I saw online. Is there a number 2 of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones? Yes, duh. It’s called City of Ashes. Would Cassie Clare had gone out of her way to write such great characters just to leave it at one book?

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