My top 25 reads from 2023

 On Facebook, someone posted a request from book reviewers: Share your top 25 reads from last year. I made a list that ran A LOT longer than 25 books so I had to shorten it a bit. Here is my list of the top 25 books I either read or read and reviewed in 2023.


Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens edited by Marieke Nijkamp

The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror: Evil Lives on the Land! Edited by Mike Marshall Smith

If You Were Here by Jennie Yarboff

The Boy from the Basement by Susan Shaw

The Disappearance of Tom Nero by TJ Price

Cackle by Rachel Harrison

Clefelo by Sarina Policastro

Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke

The Vile Thing We Created by Robert P. Ottone

Never Wake: An Anthology of Dream Horror edited by Kenneth W. Cain and Tim Meyer

The Levitation Game by Sharon Wagner

Cruel Stories by Donald Tyson

The Night Weaver by Monique Snyman

Her Teeth, Like Waves by Nikki R. Leigh

Dracula, the Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt

The Exorcist’s House by Nick Roberts

Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E.M. Roy

What Did Not Die: A Ghost Story by Ruth Anna Evans

We Wish You a Scary Christmas and a Bloody New Year by Steven Farkas

a shelf of my ancestors by Kate Pashby

Scab Eater by Vardin M. Frias

Poems of the Dead by Hart D. Fisher

Not Dead Yet by Tracey Nudd

Fragments of a Damned Mind: A Collection of Dark Fiction by Lee Andrew Forman