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The Shuddering

Ania Ahlborn

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Ryan Adler and his twin sister, Jane, spent their happiest childhood days at their parents’ mountain Colorado cabin—until divorce tore their family apart.

Now, with the house about to be sold, the Adler twins gather with their closest friends for one last snowboarding-filled holiday. While commitment-phobic Ryan gazes longingly at Lauren, wondering if his playboy days are over, Jane’s hopes of reconciling with her old boyfriend evaporate when he brings along his new fiancée.

As drama builds among the friends, something lurks in the forest, watching the cabin, growing ever bolder as the snow falls…and hunger rises.

After a blizzard leaves the group stranded, the true test of their love and loyalty begins as the hideous creatures outside close in, one bloody attack at a time.

Now Ryan, Jane, and their friends must fight—tooth and nail, bullet and blade—for their lives. Or else surrender to unspeakable deaths in the darkened woods.

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Boozhoo Books\ \ Naomi\ \ • Mar 16 2025

Hello Friends, \ \ I had a great chat earlier with fellow tastemakers about women in horror, our favorite reads and upcoming releases we are looking forward to (I tagged many of them in this post!)\ \ If you weren't able to make it, you can check it out on Youtube here\ \ Follow the other tastemakers on Bindery here:\ \ Aubrie\ \ Natalie\ \ Steph\ \ We had so much fun and hope to get together again soon! If you have any topics you'd love to hear us discuss, drop your suggestions below!\ \ BOOKCLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS\ \ As you know Women in Horror and Good Day To Read Indigenous (book clubs found on Discord here have their books picked out through May! \ \ Next week, I will be planing the reads for the remainder of the year. $12 and $25 subscribers get to nominate books, so look out for that post tomorrow!\ \ Quiet Time Book Club will meet tomorrow at 5pm PST/8pm EST on Zoom.

RECORDING: Women In Horror Panel

YouTube link to Women in Horror Celebration, all of the (most of the) books discussed, info about our Discord bookclubs

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ash.reads.horror\ \ ash\ \ • Jul 8

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Are you feeling the heat? I know that where I live, Summer is here in full swing. I'm melting and wishing that fall weather was here already. \ \ While we're all withering under the sun's rays, I've put together a list of five different horror subgenres with some book recs in each that are perfect to read this time of year.\ \ So stay inside, pour yourself an ice-cold drink, and gulp down these books!\ \ Folk Horror \ \ \ \ Photo Credit\ \ Folk horror is perfect for almost any time of the year! With rituals and folklore a plenty, these books will suck you into their pages.\ \ Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss-- A family reenacts the Iron Age deep in the wilderness where the past begins to bleed into the present.\ \ Monumental by Adam L.G. Nevill-- A group of kayakers enter forbidden land and stumble upon an ancient sacrificial ritual.\ \ Withered Hill by David Barnett-- A woman wakes up in s small village with no memory of how she got there and finds out quickly that she can't leave.\ \ Double Walker by Michael W. Conrad-- A couple vacationing in Scotland experience a tragedy while on a hike in this chilling graphic novel. \ \ The Residents Of Honeysuckle Cottage by Elizabeth Davidson-- A couples fresh start to a remote cottage just outside a small village slowly turns into a nightmare.\ \ Slasher \ \ Photo Credits\ \ Is it truly summer if there isn't a slasher movie playing? Did you know that slasher horror books are so IN right now?\ \ My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones-- A teenage girl obsessed with slashers believes one is starting up in her small town. \ \ Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley-- A wellness retreat turns into a deadly slasher.\ \ Under The Blade by Matt Serafini--A woman who survived a summer camp massacre finally returns home after two decades on the anniversary of the slaying, awakening true evil once more. \ \ Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning-- A canceled sitcom star goes to an adult summer camp and gets trapped in the middle of a slasher.\ \ You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron-- A scare camp where guests pay to be scared turns into a real life horror movie.\ \ Ocean \ \ Photo Credits\ \ The ocean will cool you down as the summer sun beats on. Just don't let it devour you like these novels...\ \ Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant-- A research crew investigating the last location of a ship discovers deadly sirens.\ \ The Deep by Nick Cutter-- A man travels to the bottom of the Marianas Trench to a research facility to check on the scientists investigating the possible cure of a worldwide disease.\ \ Whalefall by Daniel Kraus-- A man dives into the ocean to search for his father's bones and gets swallowed by a whale.\ \ The Sea Hides It's Dead by Megan Bontrager-- A group of academics in an ancient sea cult get trapped in an underwater cave.\ \ Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield-- A woman comes back changed after being trapped deep underwater in a submarine for months.\ \ Theme Park \ \ Photo Credits\ \ Take a trip to an amusement park this summer and have a chilling time. \ \ Hide by Kiersten White-- A completion for a sum of money playing the game of hide and seek turns deadly if found.\ \ FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven-- A theme park gets hit by a hurricane and the employees trapped in the park quickly turn on one another. \ \ Shock Waves by Matt Kurtz-- An explosion near a theme park releases monsters upon the park.\ \ Ride or Die by Delilah S. Dawson-- A girl trying to impress a popular group of girls winds up in the abandoned part of an amusement park where she might ride to her death.\ \ A Cold Night For Alligators by Viggy Parr Hampton-- A determined CDC epidemiologist goes rogue to tackle a mysterious outbreak in Savannah, only to find himself entangled with a pair of urban explorers.\ \ Survival \ \ Photo Credits\ \ Fight for your life on your trip/vacation.\ \ The Ruins by Scott Smith-- A group of friends get trapped on ancient ruins and must fight for their lives.\ \ This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer-- A woman and her team discover an untouched cliff face and make it their mission to be the first to climb it.\ \ The Anomaly by Michael Rutger-- A tv show that focuses on hidden mysteries try to find a hidden cavern only to find it and get trapped within it.\ \ The Hunger by Alma Katsu-- A retelling of the fateful Donner Party.\ \ The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn--A group of friends get trapped in a cabin by both a snow storm and deadly creatures.\ \ Join for free or login

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ash.reads.horror\ \ ash\ \ • Nov 10 2025

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\ \ The temperatures are dropping and some of us are experiencing snow already. I know where I live we have chances of snow today. I say chances because I live in the south and most times the snow avoids my house like the plague. But every now and then we have some winter storms hit and I get to see the beauty of nature.\ \ But the longer it sticks around, the more I start to understand how something so beautiful can be so deadly and isolating. Snow traps you in your house. Makes traveling risky if not deadly at times.\ \ The below books all capture the isolation and dread that snow brings. What are some of your favorite snowy horrors?\ \ \ \ The Terror by Dan Simmons - Don't let the page count scare you away on this one. I read this last year and it got under my skin. It's a slow building horror blended with history. It follows a group of explorers that have been stranded in the ice for years. They're running out of food and must make a decision. Should they wait for rescue and possibly die on the ship, or should they risk venturing out on the ice and reaching civilization which hundreds of miles away? And to add to this, there is something stalking them...\ \ \ \ The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn- This one also got under my skin. It was so filled with bleakness. A group of friends travel up to a cabin in the mountains for a ski trip, but when a snow storm traps them inside tensions begin to rise. Creatures begin emerging from the trees, hungry for a fresh meal. The group will have to decided whether to risk the snow and creatures and try to travel down the mountain, or if they will try to wait it out inside the cabin thats losing power and getting more and more surrounded by the minute.\ \ \ \ Dead Of Winter by Darcy Coates- This one is a fun slasher where a group gets picked off one by one. A couple's vacation turns onto a nightmare when their bus gets trapped on a mountain road. A snow storm is coming and the group tries to find safety, but people begin to go missing and some are found brutally murdered. Who can you trust when the person next you might be a killer?\ \ \ \ Dark Matter by Michelle Paver-This one is a fantastic slow burn that really isolates the reader as the story progresses. The book followers a group of explores who plan to stay on a snowy island in the Arctic to conduct a research experiment. But one by one the group dwindles, leaving only Jack alone on the island. From there, things get SPOOKY.\ \ \ \ The Shining by Stephen King- Could this list even be complete if it didn't have The Shining? A man takes a job as a hotel watchmen through the hotel's off season (winter). He brings his family along as well. At first everything is great, they're closer than they've ever been. But as the snow begins to fall and the hotel's ghosts come out to play, Jack begins to fall under the hotel's spell.\ \ \ \ This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau- This book is perfect for fans of Misery. It follows a mother and daughter who are estranged. The mother wants to reconnect and invites the daughter to join her for a weekend in a cabin. But when they get snowed in, things turn sinister fast.\ \ \ \ Below by Laurel Hightower- And lastly, I'll feature this amazing novella by Laurel Hightower. This book follows a woman who get stuck driving during a snow storm. A friendly truck driver offers to help lead her to her destination, but when he crashes down a hill, she must make a difficult choice. Does she go down and help him, or does she drive on.\ \ Join for free or login](https://ashreadshorror.binderybooks.com/item/Ajc0BXOwhueaObBAqVxY/)

Winter Horror

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ash.reads.horror\ \ ash\ \ • Nov 2 2025

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Wintery Horror Reads

❄️ Some snowy horror to chill you to the bone ❄️

These books are guaranteed to send chills down your spine. Winter and snow are so isolating and these books definitely capture that atmosphere.

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Madisoncanread\ \ Madison\ \ • Aug 15 2025

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Alright I have made videos in the past for this but I wanted to really sit down and make you a list that should be required reading for spooky season. Fall vibes that will keep you cozy or terrified? Whatever you're wanting! \ \ WITCHY RECS \ \ Cackle by Rachel Harrison: The ultimate cozy read! Annie is going through a breakup and moves to a small picturesque town where she meets a woman named Sophie and the 2 form a bond. I desperately wish I could read this again for the first time! \ \ Maggies Grave by David Sodergren: A woman named Maggie Wall was murdered for being a witch in the 1600s. Now she's back for revenge. If you want INSANE body horror, pick this one up! \ \ Slewfoot by Brom: This one I may revisit this fall. Abitha's husband died under strange circumstances and now his brother is trying to come after their farm. Abitha teams up with an unlikely friend to keep her home.\ \ The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson: Imanuelle has grown up in a very strict cult. She goes into the forbidden woods and finds power within herself. If you read and loved Slewfoot, you have to pick this book up! \ \ Haunted Recs \ \ The Spite House by Johnny Compton: Eric and his 2 daughters live on the run. He accepts a job to stay at a rumored haunted house. This will give him and and his daughters more stability than a life on the run. He'll find out quickly that there's definitely some fact behind these rumors.\ \ The September House by Carissa Orlando: A woman moves into her dream home and refuses to leave even though it's very haunted, the walls bleed every September, and her husband has gone missing.\ \ Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno Garcia: Noemi receives strange letters from her newly married cousin. She goes to check on her and can tell somethings off with her cousins husband's family. \ \ The Reformatory by Tananarive Due: Set in 1950's Florida where a young Black boy named Robbie gets sent to a reformatory school for defending his sister. This place is haunted by it's horrific past.\ \ CREATURE FEATURE \ \ When The Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy: Jess goes home after a shift a the diner she works at and finds a child who has clearly run away and is terrified. Once his dad shows up it is CLEAR why he's so scared. At this point, this is my favorite book of the year! \ \ Eynhallow by Tim McGregor: Agnes lives on an island with her husband and 4 children. She knows that there has to be more to life than what she has been given and she may have found that in the stranger who shows up in her tiny village \ \ Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison: Rory moves back to her hometown. She goes to a bar one night and is on her way home when she's attacked by a large animal. She somehow survives and now she's seeing some changes within herself.\ \ The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn: A group of friends go on a cabin vacation where there is something in the woods waiting for them.\ \ VAMPIRES \ \ So Thirsy by Rachel Harrison: Rachel Harrison is a Vampire Diaries fan, I just know it! If you love Elijah from The Originals, READ THIS.\ \ A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson: Letters from Draculas first wife. This is stunning and atmospheric. \ \ The Southern Bookclubs Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix: A group of suburban women start a book club where they read crime novels. They team up when a stranger shows up captivating their town.\ \ THRILLERS SET IN FALL \ \ Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson: Halloween night Jett is brutally attacked leaving her with a head wound that she won't survive. She can get a risky surgery with a small chance to live or she can live for the next week before she dies of aneurysm. She's decided she'll take her last week and solve her own murder. \ \ None of This is True by Lisa Jewell: Alix is a successful podcaster who interviews incredible women. Josie approaches her letting her know she hasn't done anything great, but she's about to. Alix agrees and then Josie has turned her podcast into a true crime podcast. \ \ Jackal by Erin Adams: Liz returns to her small hometown for her best friends wedding. She's tasked with watching her best friends daughter at the wedding and she goes missing. Now Liz is on hunt to find out who took her and who is responsible for young Black girls going missing in this town year after year. \ \ ON MY TBR \ \ The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia\ \ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones\ \ We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinbrough\ \ The Good House by Tananarive Due\ \ Upgrade for $5 or login

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