Greetings from my chinchilla

It's the six year anniversary of the best thing that has EVER happened to me

With only 20 min left of Slighty Spooky September, I'm not going to finish my final pick. I'm only about halfway through Peter S Beagle's TAMSIN but it is, par for the course with Beagle, excellent. A light&beautiful book about a tumultuous time in a young girl's life, and just *slightly* spooky. 🖤

I'm generally a big fan of Carey's work despite finding it to always feel a bit uneven. This, ironically, is the most "even" thing I've read of his to date, but also the least interesting. It's a fun enough fast little read but a bit too obvious and the spookybits are over too quickly, even for SSS

I mean what's there to say? A modern classic for a reason - a vampire hangout movie for the ages. A movie that makes laying down look like the most glamorous, enviable thing imaginable. When you're not swooning over their hair you'll be drowning in ennui. The platonic ideal of a Slightly Spooky pick

Next up: Priya Sharma's Pomegranates. I was pretty hype for this because I loved Sharma's prev work - and this was another hit! Perhaps not quite as spooky as I was hoping for a SSS pick (her short story collection All the Fabulous Beasts is Slightly Spookier), but a great little story regardless

I thought this was... fine. I was super invested in the first 1/4th and then when it got to the love story I lost interest. Has a couple of standout moments though and one extremely creepy villain

I've had a copy of Ballingrud's 1st short story collection languishing on my to-read pile for years now, but I could not resist the descriptor of "True Grit meets The Martian Chronicles with a touch of cosmic horror" - and it was a BANGER! I tore through this little page-turner. A perfect SSS pick!

Hello, new friends. I have a cat*

*two cats and a chinchilla.