[How it Works](https://madisoncanread.binderybooks.com/how-it-works/) [Bookshop](https://madisoncanread.binderybooks.com/books/bindery/) [Publishing](https://madisoncanread.binderybooks.com/publishing/) [Team](https://madisoncanread.binderybooks.com/team/) [Contact](https://madisoncanread.binderybooks.com/contact/) Log in or Sign up Cackle Rachel Harrison Save to Your Books [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/87058/9780593202036) [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593202031?tag=madisonherrer-20) 100% of affiliate revenue supports Madisoncanread A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of _The Return_. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She’s stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town is. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment is dreamy too, minus the oddly persistent spider infestation. Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming, magnetic Sophie, who takes a special interest in Annie, who wants to be her friend. More importantly, she wants Annie to stop apologizing and start living for herself. That’s how Sophie lives. Annie can’t help but gravitate toward the self-possessed Sophie, wanting to spend more and more time with her, despite the fact that the rest of the townsfolk seem…a little afraid of her. And like, okay. There are some things. Sophie’s appearance is uncanny and ageless, her mansion in the middle of the woods feels a little unearthly, and she does seem to wield a certain power…but she couldn’t be…could she? Show more Get the Bindery app * * * Posts about this title from Madisoncanread [Madisoncanread\\ \\ Madison\\ \\ • Aug 15 2025](https://madisoncanread.binderybooks.com/) [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](https://madisoncanread.binderybooks.com/item/HDmjYf9ObrxLN0Yb38wy/) [ULTIMATE SPOOKY SEASON TBR](https://madisoncanread.binderybooks.com/item/HDmjYf9ObrxLN0Yb38wy/) * * * 22 books 1 Posts about this book from across Bindery [Sunny's Book Truck\\ \\ CJ\\ \\ • Jun 21](https://sunnysbooktruck.binderybooks.com/) Join for free [Hi nerds,\\ \\ Last night we held our recurring event, Sunny's Salon. This month the prompt was to come prepared to talk about your favorite queer read for Pride month. 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