Filthy Loot<\/a>, Ira Rat. I had been wanting to purchase some books from Filthy Loot for a while and decided to put in my first order. I ended up accidentally getting a duplicate of one book and missing another, and Ira was so kind as to send me the missing book plus a free one, and let me keep the duplicate. I plan to eventually giveaway the duplicate when I have some free time.<\/p>\neARCs (Author\/Publisher)<\/strong>
\n\u2665 Other Atrocities by William F. Gray
\n\u2665 The Harvesting by Timothy King
\n\u2665 The Delicate Sound of Rage by Desiree Horton & Chisto Healy<\/p>\neARCs (NetGalley)<\/strong>
\n\u2665 Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_breatheinbleedout.png?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1\")
\n\u2665 Nightmerica: Corruptions of the American Dream edited by Amanda Worthington
\n\u2665 Orpheus Builds A Girl by Heather Parry
\n\u2665 What We Can Know by Ian McEwan<\/p>\nGiveaway\/Preorder Bonus<\/strong>
\n\u2665 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
\n\u2665 Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud<\/p>\nBook Boxes<\/strong>
\n\u2665 Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang (Nightworms)
\n\u2665 rekt by Alex Gonzalez (Twisted Retreat)<\/p>\nEbook Purchases<\/strong>
\n\u2665 My Girl by Audrey Rush
\n\u2665 Storyslave by Brian Bowyer![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_americanpsycho.png?resize=188%2C300&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\nGifts<\/strong>
\n\u2665 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
\n\u2665 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood
\n\u2665 Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki by Kanako Inuki
\n\u2665 Blood and Gold by Anne Rice
\n\u2665 God Damn Failure by Ira Rat
\n\u2665 How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
\n\u2665 Polybius by Collin Armstrong
\n\u2665 She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
\n\u2665 Toxic Daughter Chii-Chan by Shuzo Oshimi
\n\u2665 With a Vengeance by Riley Sager
\n\u2665 Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
\n\u2665 Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud<\/p>\nPhysical Purchases<\/strong>
\n\u2665 Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_babybruise.png?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1\")
\n\u2665 Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
\n\u2665 Baby Bruise by Danielle Chelosky
\n\u2665 BodyPunk by Charlene Elsby, Joe Koch, Max Restaino, Sam Richard, Xavier Garcia
\n\u2665 Dearest by Jacquie Walters
\n\u2665 Fleischerei by Saoirse N\u00ed Chiarag\u00e1in
\n\u2665 Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford
\n\u2665 From Dark Places by Judith Sonnet
\n\u2665 Good For Her: An Anthology of Women’s Rage edited by Sarah Jules, Shauna Mc Eleney, & TC Parker
\n\u2665 Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
\n\u2665 Like You Never Had Wings: Transformations In Horror by Charlene Elsby, Joe Koch, Kyle Winkler
\n\u2665 Our Womb, Your Torched Remains edited by Y.M. Miller
\n\u2665 Participation Trophy by Ira Rat
\n\u2665 Pregaming Grief by Danielle Chelosky
\n\u2665 Soft Ceremoneis by Charlene Elsby, Joe Koch, Jon Steffens, Sam Richard![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_softceremonies.png?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1\")
\n\u2665 Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare
\n\u2665 Teenage Grave by Brendan Vidito, Jo Quenell, Justin Lutz, Sam Richard
\n\u2665 Teenage Grave 2 by Brendan Vidito, Jo Quenell, Justin Lutz, Sam Richard
\n\u2665 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
\n\u2665 Tormented Flesh edited by James Nulick
\n\u2665 Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
\n\u2665 Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves<\/p>\nAmazon First<\/strong>
\n\u2665 The Fourth Daughter by Lyn Liao Butler
\n\u2665 Who Is the Liar by Laura Lee Bahr<\/p>\n
\nNext Month<\/h2>\n
Realistically just catching up on reviews. I’ve kicked my reading slump this month and have been rapidly reading books. Now I need to get out of my writer’s block and start catching up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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I’ve somewhat kicked my reading slump and I’m thankful for that. I started off strong with an ARC for Timothy King’s new book. He’s an indie darling and I’m glad to have been on the journey as an ARC reader for him since the beginning. He’s a kind soul and talented writer, and I’ll always read anything that he writes.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/game_thiswarofmine.png?resize=210%2C300&ssl=1\")
I got back into one of my all-time favorite video games, This War of Mine<\/strong>, achievement hunting. I used to have the achievements 100% on Steam until DLC were added, so I thought it might be fun to get caught up. I sunk another 20 hours into the game and failed miserably with achievements, but it was fun to revisit.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_thedelicatesoundofrage.png?resize=182%2C300&ssl=1\")
This month was my birthday and I got many kind book gifts! I won a birthday giveaway by a member of a horror book community I’m a member of (Books of Horror) – thank you David Swisher! Also got a few gifts book gifts from my husband, and a surprise gift from the publisher of