@perilreaders
Happy fall, y'all! It's finally my favorite time of the year and with that comes my favorite reading challenge, the legendary R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril (RIP) still going in its 19th year! The challenge runs from September 1st till Halloween and I've got all the plans, which is at least half the fun.
Here are a few of my RIPXIX potentials:
P. Djéli Clark is one of my favorite writers and I can't wait to read his newest work. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins is set in Tal Abisi a fantastical city full of gods and assassins, just waiting for the release of the UK edition here.
I'm already reading the super British super cozy The Potting Shed Murder and it's very charming so far and someone's going to off the principal any page now.
Got to have some space horror, one of my favorite settings for some good horror and Paradise 1 sounds right up my alley. There's an alarm blaring, an empty vessel and Earth's first deep-space colony has disappeared, ahh!
Weird Black Girls is "an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black—a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction".
Where the Dead Brides Gather, the newest work from one of my favorite horror writers Nuzo Onoh, is "a powerful Nigeria-set horror tale of possession, malevolent ghosts, family tensions, secrets and murder".
Then to recover, Murder Your Employer is a lighter read: "The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim." The applied sciences part already has me chuckling.
The Creepening of Dogwood House by Eden Royce is a Middle Grade Southern Gothic tale of loss. I already love her creepy short stories, so I'm excited for this one.
Lastly, The Reformatory is another newer book by one of my favorite writers. I still get goosebumps just thinking of her The Good House, and this one seems to have a lot of painful but fascinating personal history about segregated reform schools to it as well.
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