heyy guys, i’m looking for a book by caitlin marceau called It Wasn’t Supposed To Go Like This. it should have been released in 2023, there’s a cover for it and she even announced it on instagram back then. but i cannot find it ANYWHERE. can anyone help? maybe it was published under a different title? no idea. i also don’t know how to contact her because i don’t have instagram and she doesn’t seem to have a website with an email.
thaaanks <3

The Scary Stories trilogy is one of my favorite children’s/young adult’s horror collections. Was wondering if you folks had any recs or suggestions for a similar collection or anthology that’s similar to Scary Stories. Thx in advance 😊✌🏻

When I was in middle school there was a black paperback book with red on it? I remember some of the horror stories but I cant for the life of me find it.

One was through the eyes of a woman who's a scientist or something but her colleague is a handsome cold man. He invites her and he reveals he has trouble understanding emotions then goes on to show her something as an experiment and tells her to cry, in which he takes the tear and puts it under a scope and it reveals the memory that made her cry as her mother on her deathbed. He gives it a try and she looks but it looks like a picture of her body on a table(Or maybe a past victim) but he kills her and goes on his search about emotions.

Another is about a young couple who get tattoos, a man and a woman get eachother tattooed on eachother and the ink comes to life which seems to be a normal yet secretive thing in the world. The tattoos fall in love but the human couples relationship isn't so well and is pretty abusive even from the getgo so they break up. Some time passes and the woman has had enough and takes her life, her tattoo leaves separates from her and makes his way to his counterpart only to find his tattoo love disfigured as an insult to his now dead host. He leaves the beastly thing and is met with other separated tattoos where he is possibly consumed. (Open ending)

And the last one I remember is about some immortals who found it's secret long, long ago. They jump from host to host and overtake them to live on, they absorb the hosts memories and seemingly absorb them. It's told through the point of view of a man who meets one of the immortals who's host is a woman and was his lover. He recognizes it isn't her and after hearing the story it comes to attention that the immortals have a decent sized group but have been getting picked off one by one by a rogue member. Eventually it's just his girlfriend or who used to be and it's revealed that the immortal inhabiting her was a man in his first lift so the boyfriend in a rage kills her with a pipe after also killed the rogue immortal and leaves them.

As you can tell I loved loved loved this book but it's been so long and I cant even remember the cover I couldnt take my eyes off once upon a time. Please get back to me when yall can and thank you. Thank you!

Hi I really haven’t read many books but I want to so I’m extremely open to any recommendations anyone has :) I like weird books / cannibalism especially, but I’m SO incredibly sick and tired of the unnecessary female suffering / sexual abuse that appear so very often. I started reading Lapvona today (which is what inspired this post) and I can’t get past the first like 30 pages. I’m sick of it everywhere. Any books without it, any books that treat female characters as actual people and don’t mention their breasts every other sentence / maybe books that just dont have female characters at all if thats impossible / I just want something weird and disturbing that won’t make me hate being a woman. I’m sorry if I haven’t worded myself the best, I just feel drained. Thanks so much

I’m obsessed with stories where the antagonist isn’t a person—it’s a system.

Not a monster. Not a mastermind.

Just something quiet that keeps “resolving” people through policies, omissions, and normal decisions that nobody questions… until the harm becomes invisible.

What books pull this off best?

If you’ve got favorites like this, drop them. Bonus points if the villain is never “revealed,” just felt.

I've just started getting back into reading and want to read some relatively short books as a start point, so I'd love your recommendations.