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👻 Boo-tique books dissecting the horror you love, curated by the witches you fear...
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Another 5* review for Scared Sacred on Goodreads!

LOVE to see several chapters highlighted...

Reviews are integral to our reach as an indie publisher; thank you to everyone for the incredible support!

Limited-edition foiled paperbacks can be bought at holpublishing.com/shop.

#booksky #horrorsky
Image: Grey background with cover for Scared Sacred at bottom and text at top: "An outstanding collection. Every essay is worth reading; my favorites were about the Hellraiser series, The Omen, and Seytan & Jinn."--Dave Hirsch, Goodreads.
January 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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While 2026—so far—hasn't exactly been the turnaround we were all rooting for, hopefully some good news: we're shipping to the US again!

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#horrorsky #horrorcommunity #indiepublisher #usshipping #nonfictionbooks #horrormovies #printisundead #booksky
Image: white gothic wallpaper with grey fine floral print in vertical lines and black text in centre (with maroon final word; text: US shipping is back!), and House of Leaves logo (minimalistic house with page leaves falling from tree) in black at bottom.
January 14, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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The Grim Reader is back with our first reading list of 2026: books on writing. 🪱

The full list can be found here (holpublishing.com/grimreader), but this is by no means exhaustive... what books would you add? 👀

#horrorsky #booksky #bookrecs #readinglist #writersky #writingcommunity #authors #wip
1: Victorian floral black grey background with the cover of On Writing (2015) in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; On Writing [part one]. 2: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (On Writing—Part one) and HoL logo at bottom. Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book (Courtney Maum, Catapult, 2020). This Year You Write Your Novel (Walter Mosley, Little Brown Book Group, 2009). Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts (Margaret Kovach, University of Toronto Press, 2010). Your Story Matters: Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills, Tell Your Story (Nikesh Shukla, Bluebird, 2023). Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative (Melissa Febos, Catapult, 2022). On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Stephen King, Joe Hill & Owen King, Hodder, 2012). 3: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (On Writing—Part one) and HoL logo at bottom. Six covers in the middle (clockwise): On Writers and Writing: Margaret Atwood (Margaret Atwood, Virago, 2015). The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers (Betsy Lerner, Penguin, 2000). How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee (Alexander Chee, Mariner Books, 2018). On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition): The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (William Zinsser, Harper, 2012). Black Women Writers at Work (Claudia Tate & Tillie Olsen, Haymarket Books, 2023). On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association (Mort Castle, Penguin, 2006). 4: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [[holpublishing.com/grimreader](http://holpublishing.com/grimreader)]. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text. Text in centre reads: Bookworms! Bookmark full list for later….
January 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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And speaking of writing resources, look out for our January book recs (including several on writing horror)! 👀

#writingcommunity #bookrecs #nonfiction #horror #horrorsky #horrorauthor
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · 15d
January's Wolf Moon is the last of 4 consecutive supermoons (until November)! 🌕

To mark this lunar spectacle, we've started the year with a series of writing prompts to get your juices flowing... 🖋

Save for later (tag us if sharing your creations)! 📖

#writingprompts #writersky #authorsky #booksky
Image: Full moon with pink cloudy sky. Text: Wolf Moon 3 January 2026 The Wolf Moon is a time to release and reflect. Do some journaling, create some new goals, and get ready to lead the pack in the months ahead. Image: Greyscale full moon with cloudy sky. Text (black and white): Journaling prompts What three skills do you want to work on this year? What small, mindful practices are you cultivating this month? What author(s) do you plan to read more from this year? Image: Greyscale full moon with cloudy sky. Text (black and white): Creative prompts Reframe your end-of-year reflections as a character monologue. Spend 10 mins a day annotating a book on writing. Create a poem from the list of things you’re releasing this year. Image: Greyscale full moon with cloudy sky. Text (black and white): Freewriting prompt Set the timer for 10 mins and write about what you can see outside your window. Repeat throughout the month, changing the tense, perspective, style, genre... Have fun!
January 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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January's Wolf Moon is the last of 4 consecutive supermoons (until November)! 🌕

To mark this lunar spectacle, we've started the year with a series of writing prompts to get your juices flowing... 🖋

Save for later (tag us if sharing your creations)! 📖

#writingprompts #writersky #authorsky #booksky
Image: Full moon with pink cloudy sky. Text: Wolf Moon 3 January 2026 The Wolf Moon is a time to release and reflect. Do some journaling, create some new goals, and get ready to lead the pack in the months ahead. Image: Greyscale full moon with cloudy sky. Text (black and white): Journaling prompts What three skills do you want to work on this year? What small, mindful practices are you cultivating this month? What author(s) do you plan to read more from this year? Image: Greyscale full moon with cloudy sky. Text (black and white): Creative prompts Reframe your end-of-year reflections as a character monologue. Spend 10 mins a day annotating a book on writing. Create a poem from the list of things you’re releasing this year. Image: Greyscale full moon with cloudy sky. Text (black and white): Freewriting prompt Set the timer for 10 mins and write about what you can see outside your window. Repeat throughout the month, changing the tense, perspective, style, genre... Have fun!
January 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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What a year... 🔥

While we're very much forward-focused around our 2026 release schedule (more soon...), things haven't *exactly* gone to plan this year... [ctd. in comments]

#indiepublishing #newyears #newyearseve #booksky #read #writingsinspiration #writing #printisundead #horrorsky #nonfiction
Text: Happy New Year from HoL. Image: open book with holiday lights behind, and a lined border with crescent moon shapes in the corners.
December 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Happy Jólabókaflóð to everyone celebrating! 📖

We hope it's the start of a holiday period filled with lots of restorative reading... 🖤

Take care and stay spooky,

Rebecca

#horrorsky #jolabokaflod #booksky #amreading #nonfiction #christmaseve #holidayseason #ghost #horrorart #printisundead
Image: Bookmark depicting Bates House from Psycho (1960) — line art with holiday lights, with dotted accents and Print Is Undead logo on the reverse — in front of several gothic / ghost books on wooden surface. Message on bookmark: Happy Holidays from HoL. Artwork by @jayjayrose7 .
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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A big thank you to Rebecca Booth for the lovely Christmas card and goodies!
The holiday horror house post cards are fabulous!
Diana and I will enjoy the tea from Ireland for a special occasion.

Support independent press and check out @holpublishing.bsky.social They put out some fantastic books!
December 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Thank you so much @holpublishing.bsky.social for my raffle prize! Loads of cool stationery things just in time for Christmas and also lovely tea!
A great spread of stationery items with Halloween and horror themes.
December 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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If you're looking for last-minute gift ideas for a horror-loving bookworm, our directory of book recs has over 50 titles! 🪱

#booksky #horrorsky #bookrecs #nonfiction #horror #horrorfan #krampus #jolabokaflod #ghoststories #christmasghoststories #christmasghosts #horrormovie #readinglist #grimreader
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · Dec 10
From the dark history of Yule to the trashiest Christmas horror films, we’ve stuffed your stocking with another 20 book recs — all themed around Holiday Horror: holpublishing.com/grimreader.

#readinglist #grimreader #BlackChristmas #horrorart #horrorsky #horrormovie #nonfiction #booksky #bookrecs
Victorian floral black grey background with image of Billy from Black Christmas (1974, Canadian Film Development Corporation) in the centre. Text at top (Grim Reader's syllabus) and under image (Holiday Horror). House of Leaves logo at top. Victorian floral black grey background with text at top (Grim Reader's syllabus) and in the centre (Our nonfiction directory of book recs for horror fans, writers, and researchers – updated monthly...). House of Leaves logo at top. Victorian floral grey background with black bands at top and bottom containing text (top: Reading List Preview; bottom: House of Leaves logo). Six book covers in the middle (clockwise: It’s Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited by Dan Duffin, David Hastings & Paul Downey; Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween by Derek Johnston; Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, ed. by Kier-la Janisse & Paul Corupe; The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts by Jeff Belanger; A Scary Little Christmas: A History of Yuletide Horror Films, 1972–2020 by Matthew C. DuPée; The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas by Sarah Clegg). Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Text in centre reads: Bookworms! Bookmark for later! Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Our final blog of 2025 highlights 3 ways to celebrate the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð by reading together this holiday season: holpublishing.com/hex-libris/12/reading-together-3-ways-to-celebrate-jlabkafl-on-any-budget. 🖤

#blog #jolabokaflod #reading #horror #booksky #nonfiction #hexlibris
Image: Still from Misery (1990) [Woman reading to a bedridden man]. Text: Hex Libris logo. House of Leaves logo. Background: gothic floral grey wallpaper.
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Last chance to shop our books and spooky stationery sets this year! 👻📚

Please support small businesses, during the holiday season and beyond! 🖤

#booksky #horrorsky #art #stationery #nonfiction #anthology #horrormovies #foundfootage #religioushorror #filmanalysis #printisundead #horrorbook
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · Dec 13
Looking for a last-minute bookish horror gift? 🎁

From our directory of book recs to our own anthologies and spooky stationery, visit holpublishing.com for ideas! 👻

#books #booksky #stationery #horrorfan #art #horrormovies #Christmas #krampus #yule #gifts #gifting #giftidea #ScaredSacred #horror
Image: Michelle Kerr [Copy of Scared Sacred under the glow of Christmas tree lights]. Text reads: holiday shop closure; Tuesday 16 December. Grey frame with House of Leaves logo in white at bottom of image.
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Looking for a last-minute bookish horror gift? 🎁

From our directory of book recs to our own anthologies and spooky stationery, visit holpublishing.com for ideas! 👻

#books #booksky #stationery #horrorfan #art #horrormovies #Christmas #krampus #yule #gifts #gifting #giftidea #ScaredSacred #horror
Image: Michelle Kerr [Copy of Scared Sacred under the glow of Christmas tree lights]. Text reads: holiday shop closure; Tuesday 16 December. Grey frame with House of Leaves logo in white at bottom of image.
December 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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THE NIGHT HE CAME HOME… FOR THE HOLIDAYS! 🎃

Dare to chance an encounter with the boogeyman? 🔪

🎃🔪 holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays 🎃🔪

#writual #halloween1978 #johncarpenter #debrahill #writing #horrorsky #art #writingcommunity #writingset #stationery #booksky #gift #christmas #yule
Myers house and title logo from Halloween (1978). Bookmark depicting Myers House from Halloween (1978) -- line art with white and orange lights, on a black background, with orange accents on the reverse -- surrounded by holiday lights and ornaments on wooden surface. Artwork by Jessica Rose. Gothic dried orange flowers and leaves on grey background with text (Writual collection; Seasonal stationery sets for mindful reading + writing). Gothic dried orange flowers and leaves on grey background with Print is Undead logo in orange gothic lettering.
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Read Palestine Week 2025 (29 November to 5 December) focused on raising funds for writers who are in Gaza or recently left Gaza.

Visit publishersforpalestine.org for a list of writers to support and engage.

#globalstrikeforgaza #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #ReadPalestine #booksky #writersky
Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 11 December 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption.
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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From the dark history of Yule to the trashiest Christmas horror films, we’ve stuffed your stocking with another 20 book recs — all themed around Holiday Horror: holpublishing.com/grimreader.

#readinglist #grimreader #BlackChristmas #horrorart #horrorsky #horrormovie #nonfiction #booksky #bookrecs
Victorian floral black grey background with image of Billy from Black Christmas (1974, Canadian Film Development Corporation) in the centre. Text at top (Grim Reader's syllabus) and under image (Holiday Horror). House of Leaves logo at top. Victorian floral black grey background with text at top (Grim Reader's syllabus) and in the centre (Our nonfiction directory of book recs for horror fans, writers, and researchers – updated monthly...). House of Leaves logo at top. Victorian floral grey background with black bands at top and bottom containing text (top: Reading List Preview; bottom: House of Leaves logo). Six book covers in the middle (clockwise: It’s Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited by Dan Duffin, David Hastings & Paul Downey; Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween by Derek Johnston; Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, ed. by Kier-la Janisse & Paul Corupe; The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts by Jeff Belanger; A Scary Little Christmas: A History of Yuletide Horror Films, 1972–2020 by Matthew C. DuPée; The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas by Sarah Clegg). Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Text in centre reads: Bookworms! Bookmark for later! Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.
December 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Our book club is changing! Each month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated around a specific subject... November's: Frankenstein!

Read the full list - containing 30 books: holpublishing.com/grimreader!

#frankenstein #readinglist #horror #nonfiction #books #maryshelley #art #sciencefiction
1: Victorian floral black grey background with a closeup of the face of the Creature from Frankenstein (2025, Double Dare You, Demilo Films & Bluegrass 7) in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Frankenstein (logo from 2025 film). 2: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (Reading List Preview) and bottom (20+ more...). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy (Orrin N. C. Wang); Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (Dennis R. Cutchins & Dennis R. Perry, eds.); Bride of Frankenstein (Shane Denson); Gothic Science: The Era of Ingenuity & the Making of Frankenstein (Joel Levy); Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley (Charlotte Gordon); Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years (Christopher Fraylin). 3: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Horror-themed stationery sets for mindful reading and writing, our latest Writual collection includes four reversible bookmarks, with space on the back for recording memories, writing notes, or annotation. 📖

holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays

#writersky #booksky #horrorsky #giftideas
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Horror-themed stationery sets for mindful reading and writing, our latest Writual collection includes four reversible bookmarks, with space on the back for recording memories, writing notes, or annotation. 📖

holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays

#writersky #booksky #horrorsky #giftideas
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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'Tis the season for spooky stories… and our winter Writual set is the perfect gift for horror-loving readers. 👻

Designed for fans of 1960s and ‘70s horror, artist Jessica Rose brings 4 iconic horror houses to life, decorated for the holidays…dare you bring them home? 🏚

#horrorsky #stationery #art
1: Bookmark depicting High Hopes from The Amityville Horror (line art with white and red lights, on a dark red background, with red accents on the reverse) surrounded by holiday lights and ornaments on wooden surface. 2: Gothic orange/red dried flowers and leaves on blue/grey background with text (Writual collection; Seasonal stationery sets for mindful reading + writing). 3: Gothic orange/red dried flowers and leaves on blue/grey background with Print is Undead logo in red gothic lettering.
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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It's not too late to take part in Read Palestine Week 2025 — to find out more and access your free Palestine reading list, visit publishersforpalestine.org.

My current read: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi.

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine #readpalestine #booksky
Image 1: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 4 December 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption. Image 2: Black background with white, red, and green text: Publishers for Palestine (logo is open book in the colours from the flag of Palestine); Read Palestine Week; 29 November – 05 December. Image 3: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi; book on wooden desk with page-markers and page-marker bookmark.
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Marking a period of pause, healing, and revival, the Cold Moon reminds creatives to craft mindfully. 🌕

If looking for inspiration, our winter Writual collection is designed to encourage mindful reading and writing: holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays 💙📚

#writingprompts #stationery #art
Image: Full moon above clouds (Altınay Dinç | Unsplash). Text reads: Cold Moon. 4 December 2025.
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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It's December, which means it's time to GET OUT...THE DECORATIONS!

It also means our HoL-iday release is here!

Designed for fans of '60s + '70s horror, we have just 1 question: Dare you bring them home for the holidays?

❄️ holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays ❄️

#art #horrorsky #booksky
Image: inverted image of house - High Hopes (The Amityville Horror, 1979) - with red filter and logo in red.
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Final day to enter our giveaway - open worldwide - to raise money for local food banks! Thank you to everyone's who's shared so far - details in caption! 💙

#giveaway #contest #spookystationery #journal #blog #booksky #writersky #author #art #horrorart #hellraiser #annabelle#horrormovies #foodbank
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · Nov 2
Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or info@holpublishing.com) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - for the chance to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻

Details in caption - please share! 🖤

#horrorsky #filmsky #writersky #stationery #giveaway
Images: Four squares containing black-and-white images of stationery sets: 1) two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves; 2) pumpkin-shaped sticky notes, page markers, washi tape with skeleton design, and Hex Libris bookplate with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 3) Zebra mildliner and Sarasa pens with black pen pouch and notebook on skeleton themed paper with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 4) silver notebook with stylised text at the bottom (reading: 'Warning: Positively Do Not Open') and an Annabelle doll sitting on top. Background is grey with leaves behind the doll. Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or info@holpublishing.com) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - and you'll be entered into a draw to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻 The bundle contains series one (sold out) and two of our annual Halloween Writual collections - horror-themed stationery sets curated for readers and writers - as well as a couple of extra surprises. 📚 Horror bundle includes: 🖋️ autumnal pens + stationery 📓 an Annabelle-inspired notebook 📑 spooky annotation + organizational tools 💀 Hellraiser-inspired greetings card set designed by featured artist John Sowder 👻 exclusive stickers designed by featured artist Jessica Rose 🫖 Northern Irish tea 🖤 and more… Open worldwide (including US) - we'll cover the postage. 🌎 We understand not everyone is in a position to donate, so to help us reach as many people as possible, you'll also be in with a chance of winning a wee gift if you share this post (just make sure we're tagged so we can enter you in the draw)! Winners announced 1 December 2025. Take care and stay spooky 🖤 Rebecca
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Our book club is changing! Each month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated around a specific subject... November's: Frankenstein!

Read the full list - containing 30 books: holpublishing.com/grimreader!

#frankenstein #readinglist #horror #nonfiction #books #maryshelley #art #sciencefiction
1: Victorian floral black grey background with a closeup of the face of the Creature from Frankenstein (2025, Double Dare You, Demilo Films & Bluegrass 7) in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Frankenstein (logo from 2025 film). 2: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (Reading List Preview) and bottom (20+ more...). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy (Orrin N. C. Wang); Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (Dennis R. Cutchins & Dennis R. Perry, eds.); Bride of Frankenstein (Shane Denson); Gothic Science: The Era of Ingenuity & the Making of Frankenstein (Joel Levy); Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley (Charlotte Gordon); Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years (Christopher Fraylin). 3: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM