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1. Read a book with pink or yellow on the cover

I have 2 books that could fit this prompt and I know for sure I'll be reading at least one of them, hopefully, both of them! Lord of the Fly Fest by Goldy Moldavsky not only has pink on the cover but just has a stunning cover in general. Like, excuse me, but please take a second to admire how gorgeous it is. And then Hide by Kiersten White is the first cover that came to mind when I was thinking of a horror book with yellow on the cover! These books are ARCs that I got via NetGalley, just as a disclaimer. 

From Goodreads: "The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The prize: enough money to change everything. Even though everyone is desperate to win--to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts--Mack feels sure that she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she's an expert at that. It's the reason she's alive, and her family isn't. But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes this competition is more sinister than even she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive. Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide, but nowhere to run."

2. Read a backlist thriller or horror book 

Okay, so, I have a few potential books I could/want to read for this prompt, but the one that I’ll for sure be reading is Bunny by Mona Awad. I’ve heard so many good things about it and I cannot believe that I’ve gone so long without reading this book!

Title: Bunny

Author: Mona Awad

Pages: 307

Genre: Adult Horror

Release Date: 11 June 2019

From Goodreads: "Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision."

I also have a few runner-up books that I'd like to read if I decide that I either don't want to read Bunny (for some reason) or if I get through my initial TBR for the readathon! But let's be honest, I may pick up one of these before the readathon even starts because I really want to read all of them!

Title: The Last Final Girl

Author: Stephen Graham Jones

Pages: 216

Genre: Adult Horror

Release Date: 22 September 2012

From Goodreads: "Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone's got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town. You're from this town. Zoom In: Homecoming princess, Lindsay. She's just barely escaped death at the hands of a brutal, sadistic murderer in a Michael Jackson mask. Up on the cliff, she was rescued by a horse and bravely defeated the killer, alone, bra-less. Her story is already a legend. She's this town's heroic final girl, their virgin angel. Monster Vision: Halloween masks floating down that same river the kids jump into. But just as one slaughter is not enough for Billie Jean, our masked killer, one victory is not enough for Lindsay. Her high school is full of final girls, and she's not the only one who knows the rules of the game. When Lindsay chooses a host of virgins, misfits, and former final girls to replace the slaughtered members of her original homecoming court, it's not just a fight for survival-it's a fight to become The Last Final Girl."

Title: The Girls Are Never Gone

Author: Sarah Glenn Marsh

Pages: 336

Genre: YA Horror

Release Date: 07 September 2021

From Goodreads: "Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. Privately, she’s a supernatural skeptic. But publicly, she’s keeping her doubts to herself—because she’s the voice of Attachments, her brand-new paranormal investigation podcast, and she needs her ghost-loving listeners to tune in. That’s what brings her to Arrington Estate. Thirty years ago, teenager Atheleen Bell drowned in Arrington’s lake, and legend says her spirit haunts the estate. Dare’s more interested in the suspicious circumstances surrounding her death—circumstances that she believes point to a living culprit, not the supernatural. Still, she’s vowed to keep an open mind as she investigates, even if she’s pretty sure what she’ll find. But Arrington is full of surprises. Good ones like Quinn, the cute daughter of the house’s new owner. And baffling ones like the threatening messages left scrawled in paint on Quinn’s walls, the ghastly face that appears behind Dare’s own in the mirror, and the unnatural current that nearly drowns their friend Holly in the lake. As Dare is drawn deeper into the mysteries of Arrington, she’ll have to rethink the boundaries of what is possible. Because if something is lurking in the lake…it might not be willing to let her go."

Title: The Girl from Rawblood

Author: Catriona Ward

Pages: 368

Genre: Adult Horror

Release Date: 07 March 2017

From Goodreads: "For generations, the Villarcas have died mysteriously, and young. Now Iris and her father will finally understand why. At the turn of England's century, as the wind whistles in the lonely halls of Rawblood, young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted, through the generations, by "her," a curse passed down through ancient blood that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak, and death. Iris forsakes her promise to her father, to remain alone, safe from the world. She dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. As the world falls apart around her, she must take a final journey back to Rawblood where it all began and where it must all end."

Title: Nightbitch

Author: Rachel Yoder

Pages: 256

Genre: Adult Horror

Release Date: 20 July 2021

From Goodreads: "One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else. At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined - what was it she had imagined? Her husband, always traveling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime and she fears she might lose her mind. Instead, quite suddenly, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. Sharper canines. Strange new patches of hair. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice."

3. Make a fall-themed drink or pastry to bring Halloween to spring!

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