Morbid & Mor(e)bid Curiosities | May 2025
Oh hello again, boils and ghouls 👋
Do we ever have ourselves in for some horrific spring-time scares this month! 📚😈
Double the troubles 😈
Our Morbid Curiosities await 📚
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our May Morbid Curiosities 💀 Book Club reads are…
💄 Rouge by Mona Awad (2023)
I’ll admit this book flew under my radar until one of our book club members suggested it for our upcoming May Morbid Curiosities 💀 pick!
In the spirt of April and Easter 🥚 (Zombie Jesus day), I planned to read Bunny by Mona Awad this month, but also happen to be reading it with another group, an empowering Feral Feminine book club ❤️🔥. I’m really loving Mona’s clever and captivating writing style, so I’m really thrilled to be sucked into another one of her horrors, especially one of such glamourous and grotesque descent into the darkness of beauty and despair 👀
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🌊 Chlorine by Jade Song (2023)
When I originally started Morbid Curiosities back in October 2024, after finishing our first read In The Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami, I had just gotten my library hold for Chlorine, so I suggested Chlorine and The Eyes Are The Best Part as our next options (but wouldn’t you know it, the other book won 😅) however in our book club, we don’t shame or forget books 👏 so we put it back in the rotation for another adventure…
Fast forward to Present day and Chlorine has now won 😎 and is now our Double Trouble Sister Read for May. But this time, instead of waiting for my library hold… I might already own a paperback copy 🙈
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So whether you want to dive head first into a creepy spa cult or into the deep end with a body horror… both our Double Trouble Morbid Curiosities 💀 will begin next Friday, May 2nd amongst our haunted clubhouses on Fable (so, mark your calendars 💋📅)
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Rouge + Chlorine | May Morbid Curiosities 💀
Do you like to read Horror books?
Do you like to vibe with the most spectacular souls in existence?
Are you into super spooky & awesome book clubs 👀?
However, most importantly…
Do YOU have a 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖇𝖎𝖉 curiosity?
🎬 Behind the scenes
With over 250+ morbid Mavens & horror lovers in the club, it’s no wonder we had a long list of gruesome and terrifying books to choose from 📚 I’m so eternally grateful for the souls that haunt those clubhouses and how wonderfully welcome everyone is! With that being said, some grim, bleak and dissociating books such as Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie, Ripe by Sarah Etter Rose, and Hungerstone by Kat Dunn were just some of the few that were suggested.
In order to narrow it down from a list of 15 intriguing titles to our chosen eight, we would have to use our trusty Wheel Spinner! 👀👏
The chosen 8 🎱
When making a Reading Next poll within a Fable Book club, you can only select up to four books for your club members to submit a vote for, and we love our options! We even created a second book club to host Buddy Reads: Mor(e)bid Curiosities 💀
So for the first time ever, since starting the book club in October 2024, we hosted TWO Reading Next polls to select our morbid curiosities 🎉
It was so fun to watch everyone interacting with both of the polls over the course of 72 hours 🤭 and with one of the closest races I’ve ever witnessed in one of the groups… we summoned our delightfully disturbed picks for next month 📚😈
As our saying goes, “…the mor(e)bid, the merrier…” so if you like book clubs and want to check out the Fable app, we would be happy if you could
Until we meet again, I ask you…
Do YOU have a 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖇𝖎𝖉 curiosity?
Do you have a morbid curiosity?
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