Oh Boils and Ghouls, this is seriously quite the Friday to celebrate! 🎉
We have hit our first (!!!) milestone with the Morbid Curiosities 💀 Book Club and my beating heart is full of gratitude and appreciation for that cozy & creepy corner on Fable
🎉 Cheers to an entire year of discussing morbidly dark, disturbed and macabre Horror books together! 🥂
We are currently sitting at just around 460 Morbid Mavens (in the original haunted clubhouse) who are eager to dive into the darkest depths of the most chilling, horrific & morbidly disturbed literature that we can find!
We’ll talk about our Double Trouble haunted clubhouse in a bit…
And for every single spooky spirit who has ever graced their presence within our haunted clubhouses on Fable:
Tonight’s blog post is in celebration of you and the hilariously haunted energy you’ve added to our darkly comedic bunch of Morbid Mavens! 👻💀🐦⬛
I seriously can’t believe it’s been a whole year already…
Feel free to jump in the Wayback Machine to see some of the previous blog posts featuring our selected monthly (morbid) reads…
- Morbid Curiosities For November 2025
- Morbid Curiosities For October 2025
- Morbid Curiosities For September 2025
Going Down Memory Lane 🛣️
It began with one morbid curiosity…
(and now we’ve read sixteen together since then)
One single horror book that I was itching to read and discuss, ever since I had heard how disturbed it was…
(and yes, it was disturbing!!!)
Here’s a lil’ hint at what the first read was…
oh…
Do you have a morbid curiosity? 💀
Join our club(s)
So I started a horror book club online, using the Fable app as the hosting platform, in hopes of cultivating a creepy, and cozy corner for summoning like-minded spirits together to read & discuss the darkest, most disturbed and morbid horror literature…
October 2k24
In The Miso Soup
Throwback to that moment where I essentially became the “WTF did I just read?!” meme above… because wow, what a disturbing (yet oddly quick) horror book to read as the very first morbid curiosity!
Thankfully I had another horror lover & book club member in the club at that time to discuss Ryū Murakami’s approach to writing such a disturbed and twisted tale. And again, it helped to talk through some of those disturbing moments encountered while reading through the novel with another survivor of the book!
December 2k24
The Eyes Are The Best Part
I couldn’t wait to read this one with the club when it was suggested and won our first ever voting poll! (Sorry Chlorine, it wasn’t quite your time…)
This is when we were christened the Morbid Mavens (by another lovely book club member) and became the bunch of hilariously haunted souls we still are today… inserting our dark comedy and epic meme/gif action whenever and wherever possible in the book discussions!
Feb 2k25
The Haar | Graveyard Shift
This is when we evolved our club choices from one Horror book to two Horror books! (muahaha)
We voted on the main book to read as a club, and then whichever book came in 2nd place in the polls, that became the optional second book to read, if you’ve already read or weren’t interested in reading the main one.
We were still opting for six week periods per book (as I truly am a moody reader and having more time to read a book is always better for me) to account for all reading paces!
April 2k25
The Unworthy | Exquisite Corpse
What a quickly selected book The Unworthy was!
(But also, so was Exquisite Corpse for a second pick, if it didn’t win…) so needless to say we knew and were ready for the frights that awaited us in April!
May 2k25
Rouge | Chlorine
I see you, Chlorine! We are finally reading you only about five months later, but that’s the amazing thing about building up a collection of morbid curiosities… you will eventually get to that tasty treat!
Both books were two wild reads to discuss during the Spring and were also quite the impressionable novels for a few reasons… like, how I’ll never look at Tom Cruise the same way again (IYKYK)
June/July 2k25
Strange Pictures | Mary
Summerween 2k25 was in full swing with these two terrifying treats! 🎃
I had previously read Strange Pictures back during the winter and absolutely LOVED it, so I put more focus on Nat Cassidy’s Horror debut novel (with the full immersive physical + audiobook experience) which was probably my favorite way to get to read Nat’s book!
August 2k25
The Deep | Knock Knock, Open Wide
Here’s where things got a little more chaotic for me during the summer, and I ended up pausing The Deep and not even getting a chance to read Knock Knock, Open Wide…
Thankfully, those who haunt the book clubhouses are the most thoughtful and supportive souls you could summon, meaning they truly understood the hectic and turbulent energy I was dealing with and gave me a pass.
Once I get a chance to revisit these two terrifying treats, I’ll jump back into the archives discussions to see what the consensus was on our August morbid curiosities! I seriously can’t wait and so grateful that Fable supports that feature 😈
September 2k25
The Rotting Room | Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Back in the middle of Summer, we had the biggest vote-off of two Horror books I’ve seen yet!
If you aren’t familiar with what happened 👉🏻 the August Morbid Curiosities post has more of the details but the TL;DR version would be there was an epic fight between The Deep & The Rotting Room… to the point I did not think we would ever choose between them.
But spoiler, it was 51% to 49% in the very, very end.
So because of the exhausting battle The Rotting Room had to endure, we promised that it would be an instant September Morbid Curiosities pick!
October 2k25
Come Closer | This Thing Between Us
This Ghoul asked the spooky spirits of the haunted clubhouses kindly if they could populate the October roster as a birthday gift to them 🖤 (since we would begin reading them both on the day of my birth) and the two books that came out winning were actually two books I’ve been dying to read for so long!
It truly was the best birthday gift this ghoul could have received from those wonderfully spooky spirits, and with one out of two of them finished already… I should start preparing for next month’s Upcoming Morbid Curiosities 👀
November 2k25
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You’ll just have to come back and see what we will be subjecting ourselves to next month… if you’re that morbidly curious…
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Did you know in celebration of ONE YEAR of Morbid Curiosities, I’m hosting an exclusive giveaway* for the spooky souls within the club?!
So to show my eternal gratitude and appreciation for this incredible year, I want to celebrate everyone who has contributed to the safe and spooky space we’ve created using the Fable app!
*this giveaway is exclusive to Morbid Curiosities 💀 book club members only & all entry submissions and tags will be on Fable, in the Morbid Curiosities 💀 book club!
✨ One Year Book Club Giveaway ✨
Little Ghosts BookStore x Cafe
Have you checked out online or visited Little Ghosts before?
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I’m endlessly dreaming about visiting this shop someday, owning my own cute little ghosts hat and tote, plus purchasing stacks upon stacks of their horror gems!
I also really like that they’ve made SUMMON A GHOST mystery packages that you can order online for those who really want to dive into the eerie unknown with a ghoulish, horrific treat!
It’s seriously crazy going from one book last year…
to sixteen Morbid Curiosities this year!
If you’ve gotten to this part of the blog tonight 🚨
Thank you for taking the time to read through and go down memory lane with me, revisiting an entire year’s worth of memories with such an amazing group of the most lively spirits!
Until we meet again,
I love you all.
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