It's just about Halloween, and that means another set of supernatural creature poems! I'll admit these might not be my best (I'm tired, I almost didn't even do these at all), but they might be my last. This is now 16 supernaturals that I've written poems about, and I'm running out of options, especially when they have a whole little formula I have to meet that limits the options even more. So...
When Mackie is twelve, he goes into the magical forest and brings back a boy he names Blue, and suddenly everyone else knows Blue as if he's always been there. Years later, when the boys come home from college, something changes, and the forest wants Blue back, but Mackie will fight to keep...
Oliver has been crushing on Paranormal Society coworker Felipe for a while, and just when he finally gets the courage to ask him to dinner, he finds the man dead. But Oliver is a necromancer and accidentally reanimates him, agreeing to keep him undead for a week while they solve the case, though their growing feelings may complicate...
Gay ghost books! Well, the books are gay, not necessarily the ghosts, though there are quite a few of those too. These are mostly m/m romance, some are not necessarily romance but are about mlm characters. One has a ghost love interest, most have ghosts who are a problem, and the rest have ghosts that have some other role in the story. (Sorry if you're disappointed by only one ghost love...
Graham has taken a job teaching nine-year-olds at a Yorkshire estate, and he finds there is a simmering attraction between himself and the boys' intimidating father. But as he learns more about the history of the estate and the circumstances of the mother's death, he realizes there's a malevolent presence in the...
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As if life isn't already hard enough being a gay Jewish teen in 1800s Chicago trying to save money for his family to come to the US, Alter ends up possessed when his friend is murdered. But his friend is one of many in a string of murders of Jewish boys, and now Alter, a girl from his building, and the boy he thought he'd cut from his life a year ago must find the killer if they want to save...
"Would you rather" is such a simple idea, but also really fun. When I was in college, I once spontaneously bought a silly "would you rather" book when I stopped by the book store, and then I spent four hours in a car with a friend, driving home for the weekend, and we mostly just played while I drove, discussion pros and cons and arguing our points about these ridiculous questions when we...
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is the second in a humorous point-and-click pixel art detective game series about solving supernatural mysteries. Go along with best friends Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley, explore various locations in the city, and solve cases about all the weird stuff going on....
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Dec's parents died two years ago, he's haunted by a ghost no one else can see despite living in a town full of mediums, and he desperately wants to leave. When a pianist whose music has helped him through the past couple years shows up at his door, it feels like it can't be a coincidence. Meanwhile, his best friend, Russ, is making plans to reform the shady Guild from...
It's October, and I stumbled upon a couple Halloween-y book tags recently, so I figured, what the heck, let's do them! This one was created by Royal Reader (so be sure to credit them if you do the tag too), and I found it at Monstrumology. I'm not really a horror movie person, but luckily you don't need to be to do the...
