Bark At The Ghouls

This book brings the ick. 🍄 My 2 Cents for Free! Girl In the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner Released July 15, 2025 Source: Netgalley Get it at your local library or see more @  Goodreads Erin is a young  journalist who heads to a small town an hour out of Portland to write an article. Faraday is tucked away and filled with woods and mushrooms and rot, as well as poachers and murderers of people. People go missing and no one seems to care very much. There’s definitely a terrible story here but it’s also personal for her as her beloved brother went missing in the area a few years earlier. Erin meets up with a podcasting group and a bunch of their friends and, for the life of me, I couldn't tell you much about any of them because they all sort of hang around on the periphery (waiting to get picked off, it seems to me) and we don’t get to know them as people which was a frustrating experience. They’re all young and beautiful and smart but none of them have developed personalitie...

I finished this book yesterday, wrote a review and posted it to my blog. Who the heck am I?! The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner Released October 2021 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   |  Bookshop The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner is a sawmill gothic that begins with June Vogel’s return to Storm Break, her family’s estate. Things in the great house aren’t what they used to be. Doors slam in the night. Faucets turn on, untouched. Something is always watching, whatever June does. And when her brother returns with his new bride, deceit and betrayal threaten to destroy everything she loves. My 2 Cents For Free! This review is my personal reading experience. Yours may differ. Don't be blaming me if it does! The Secret Skin is a quick gothic read. It has all the spooky things you’d expect in a gothic and a few surprises too! June returns to the family estate, a looming mansion on the coast, to care for her 9-year-old...