There’s a peculiar irony about the times when we most need the mental escape that reading fiction provides. Holiday season, house moving, travelling, or a particularly demanding period at work are precisely the moments when our carefully maintained reading habits tend to collapse entirely. But here’s the thing: life rarely settles down on its own.…

For a lot of people, the Holiday season is usually the hardest time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, like reading good stories. That’s why we’re finishing our Holiday Season Reading series with 25 Christmas short stories: bite-sized tales that can be finished in a sitting. You can sink into them quickly without worrying…

Finding translated full-length Christmas books and novels is genuinely challenging, but we did our best to bring you some of the finest stories from other cultures for part III of our Holiday Season Reading. This list leans heavily on ‘The Very Christmas’ anthology series, and for good reason: it is an excellent backbone for a…

What about spending these holidays travelling the globe without leaving your cosy reading corner? This is the first post of the Holiday Season Reading series, with recommendations for Christmas and New Year’s stories by authors from different countries.In these posts, you’ll find picture books for children that will also be enjoyed by adults, anthologies, reimaginings, and cosy…

Healthy vision is crucial to the reading experience, yet many readers overlook simple steps that support long-term visual comfort. In a world dominated by screens and fast information, eye strain has become increasingly common, and it can quietly erode the pleasure of settling down with a book. Fortunately, a few practical habits can protect eyesight…

In a world addicted to hustle and digital distraction, it’s been increasingly difficult to feel utterly snug, safe, and immersed. But if you still yearn for that deep contentment while curled up with a book, completely lost in a story, even when there’s a storm raging outside, you can create your own cosy reading corner.…

The only thing more satisfying than reading a brilliant, quick, chilling story is sharing it with others and giving them a creeping dread, a sudden chill, or an unspeakable terror. In this post, we’ll list 13 short stories that may visit your dreams at night – some are well-known, others not so much. We also…

The search for genuinely terrifying and original fiction sometimes leads away from the major publishers. Independent horror authors have some of the genre’s most unsettling and inventive voices, pushing boundaries and crafting nightmares outside the mainstream. Small-press and self-published authors can build worlds that major publishers would never risk. That freedom gives the genre new…

October usually awakens in us a desire for eerie, spooky, supernatural stories. That’s probably because on the last night of the month, when the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest, and the spirits can come into our world to partake in – or just take – our lives. Halloween has its roots…

The world of digital reading has changed a lot since subscription-based book services came about. They changed the way we enjoy books, giving readers the chance to dive into huge libraries for a simple monthly fee within a simple device. Still, each service has its own unique perks and drawbacks. If you are a passionate…