Accumulation by Aimee Pokwatka is kind of a haunted house domestic horror. Tenn, a documentary filmmaker turned wedding videographer because life be like that sometimes, and her husband Ward, move with their two kids from North Carolina to New York. In a tale as old  as time, or at least as old as The Amityville Horror, the move was meant to strengthen their marriage (though the pre-move details are unclear), and Ward sinks all their money into buying Tenn’s dream home.  They both have new jobs, but Ward’s is the one that will support them with his new six figure salary.

Everything Dead & Dying by Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips is a collection of all five issues of the comic, which I had never read before, and I’m glad I read it as a collection because I don’t know how I would have done it if I’d had to wait between issues.

Two words. Ghost. Cat. The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean starts in 1970's Hong Kong and had two things going for it within the first pages: One - the aforementioned Ghost Cat which can go from a sweet little baby kitten to a powerful beast in a blink and Two: a protagonist who is my age (fully baked adult) - at least in the opening pages before it jumps back to a time I've coincidentally been reading about a lot lately - the WWII occupation of Hong Kong by the Japanese followed by the influx of refugees from the Chinese Civil war. It was a crazy time for Hong Kong.)

When you reunite with friends you haven’t seen in a long time, you’re spending time with the people you knew back then, twenty, ten, even five years ago, and that makes its easy to revert to the person you were back then, too, and the old dynamics resurface, good or bad.

With a spirit called “She Who Creeps Between”, there’s no question that She Waits Where Shadows Gather by Michelle Tang is going to stick with me for a while. She Waits Where Shadows Gather  is a Filipino Gothic horror novel complete with a haunted house, Filipino folklore, and a fractured family.