Cult of Weird Fall Reading List

Morbid Must-Reads: 2019 Fall Reading List

Communing with the dead, the women who wrote monsters, eyeball-eating cats, and more weird books top this year’s morbid fall reading list.

The veil is thinning and nature is once again showing us how beautiful it is to die. That means it’s that time of year again when I dig up a new list of book recommendations to feed our insatiable need for the dark, weird, and disturbing this autumn.

This collection of morbid must-reads explores the dark side of life and lighter side of the afterlife, from Caitlin Doughty’s new masterpiece about kid’s death questions to LGBTQ+ tales of Gothic horror.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

Mortician Caitlin Doughty answers death questions from kids like why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? Why do hair and nails appear longer after death? And if you’re wondering about the book’s title, the answer is yes, yes it will.

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Séance

Seance by Shannon Taggart

Photographer Shannon Taggart explores the mysteries of spiritualism through her lens in this book full of truly haunting photographs. Séance includes a foreword by Dan Aykroyd, creator of Ghostbusters and fourth-generation spiritualist.

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Twelve Nights at Rotter House

Twelve Nights at Rotter House by JW Ocker

Writer Felix Allsey makes a living publishing travelogues of the country’s most haunted places. But while staying in the infamous Rotterdam Mansion for his next bestseller, Allsey’s nonfiction turns into all out horror.

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Abandoned Palaces

Abandoned Palaces: Great Houses, Mansions, Estates and Hotels Suspended in Time

From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces tells the stories behind dilapidated structures all around the world.

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Exquisite Aberrations

Exquisite Abberations gothic horror anthology from Fundead Publications

The abandoned houses and shadowy cemeteries in this anthology of Gothic horror tales might seem familiar, but these stories are about the people who have been shunned and forgotten – trans, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ characters, people suffering from PTSD and other mental health conditions, and persons of color.

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Weird Wild West

Weird Wild West by Keven McQueen

Explore the stranger, darker side of the Old West, the ghost stories, unexplained deaths, bizarre murders, and peculiar burials that made the West weird.

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Monster, She Wrote

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction.

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Mostly Dead Things

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Mostly Dead Things had me at “aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals.” I mean, what else do you need to know?

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Swamplandia!

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Strange theme parks, swamp lore, ghosts and more comprise this mysterious and disturbing coming of age story about a family running a gator-wrestling attraction the Everglades.

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The Ghastling: Book Nine

The Ghastling Book Nine Strange Creatures issue

The ninth installment of The Ghastling features chilling new tales of horror by contemporary authors. Don’t miss the “Strange Creatures” issue.

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Want more? Here are the fall reading lists from previous years:

2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

Or you can find them all and more here: Cult of Weird Recommended Reading

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