1. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (1/2/20)
2. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1/3/20)
3. The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike (1/8/20)
4. Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older (1/11/20)
5. The Law of Lines by Hye-Young Pyun (1/16/20)
6. Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older (1/22/20)
7. Wes Craven: Interviews edited by Shannon Blake Shelton (1/26/20)
8. The Best American Short Stories 2009 edited by Alice Sebold (1/28/20)
9. Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins (2/2/20)
10. Inland by Téa Obreht (2/13/20)
11. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (2/16/20)
12. Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas (2/17/20)
13. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson (2/20/20)
14. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (2/21/20) =
15. Ghostlove by Dennis Mahoney (2/26/20)
16. The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (3/1/20)
17. Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (3/6/20)
18. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (3/11/20)
19. American Midnight edited by Laird Hunt (3/13/20)
20. Shadows by Joan de la Haye (3/14/20)
21. Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg (3/14/20)
22. My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (3/16/20)
23. Difficult Light by Tomás González (3/19/20)
24. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez (3/24/20)
25. The Writhing Skies by Betty Rocksteady (3/26/20)
26. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon (3/26/20)
27. Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesías (3/29/20)
28. The New Black edited by Richard Thomas (3/30/20)
29. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (4/4/20)
30. The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (4/10/20)
31. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey (4/12/20)
32. William Friedkin: Interviews edited by Christopher Lane (4/13/20)
33. The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones (4/19/20)
34. The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld (4/22/20)
35. Were We Awake by L.M. Brown (4/23/20)
36. A People’s Future of the United States edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams (4/23/20)
37. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (4/29/20)
38. Gulp by Mary Roach (5/2/20)
39. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (5/4/20)
40. Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (5/5/20)
41. Helium by Rudy Francisco (5/10/20)
42. If It Bleeds by Stephen King (5/11/20)
43. Mostellaria by Plautus (5/13/20)
44. Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn (5/13/20)
45. All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (5/16/20)
46. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (5/20/20)
47. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (5/21/20)
48. The Yellow Room by Chris Poole (5/23/20)
49. Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals by Bitter Karella (5/24/20)
50. Magic City by Jewelle Parker Rhodes (5/26/20)
51. When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom (5/26/20)
52. I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott (5/26/20)
53. Sequelland: A Story of Dreams and Screams by Jay Slayton-Joslin (5/29/20)
54. Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor (6/3/20)
55. The Unsuitable by Molly Pohlig (6/4/20)
56. Seabirds Are Still Alive by Toni Cade Bambara (6/5/20)
57. The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe by Kij Johnson (6/7/20)
58. Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar (6/10/20)
59. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (6/16/20)
60. Rashōmon and 17 Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (6/17/20)
61. The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (6/17/20)
62. Jump Rope by Ruby Jean Jensen (6/24/20)
63. Writing Movies for Fun and Profit by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon (6/26/20)
64. Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley (7/3/20)
65. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (7/4/20)
66. American Poison by Eduardo Porter (7/7/20)
67. Actress by Anne Enright (7/8/20)
68. Hairspray and Switchblades by V. Castro (7/11/20)
69. Copper and Mercury by Jessica D. Coplen (7/14/20) (Workshop)
70. The Ressurectionist by Wrath James Wright (7/15/20)
71. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (7/18/20)
72. The Need by Helen Phillips (7/19/20)
73. Sleep No More edited by August Derleth (7/21/20)
74. The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (7/26/20)
75. You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld (7/28/20)
76. Jaula by Oscar Mancinas (7/29/20)
77. The Tribe by Bari Woods (8/3/20)
78. Earthworm Gods by Brian Keene (8/7/20)
79. The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (8/7/20)
80. Virgins & Tricksters by Rosalie Morales Kearns (8/12/20)
81. Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (8/15/20)
82. The Man They Wanted Me to Be by Jared Yates Sexton (8/15/20)
83. The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates (8/16/20)
84. The Hollow Ones by T. Kingfisher (8/22/20)
85. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura Van den Berg (8/23/20)
86. Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (8/26/20)
87. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (8/31/20)
88. The Running Man by Stephen King (8/31/20)
89. Let’s Go Play at the Adams by Mendal W. Johnson (9/6/20)
90. The Book of Deadly Animals by Gordon Grice (9/8/20)
91. Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams (9/11/20)
92. The Deep by Alma Katsu (9/12/20)
93. Cold in July by Joe R. Lansdale (9/15/20)
94. In the Shadow of the Master edited by Michael Connelly (9/17/20)
95. The Evolution of Howard Jones by Stephen Clary (9/17/20) (Workshop)
96. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Morena-Garcia (9/21/20)
97. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (9/22/20)
98. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (9/26/20)
99. Arizona Ghost Stories by Antonio R. Garcez (9/28/20)
100. The Art of Pulp Horror edited by Stephen Jones (9/29/20)
101. Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay (10/1/20)
102. Voices in the Snow by Darcy Coates (10/4/20)
103. Pedro Páramo by Jaun Rulfo (10/7/20)
104. The Possession of Natalie Glasgow (10/8/20)
105. Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (10/10/20)
106. Devolution by Max Brooks (10/10/20)
107. Cirque Berserk by Jessica Guess (10/12/20)
108. Benny Rose, the Cannibal King by Hailey Piper (10/14/20)
109. Standalone by Paul Michael Anderson (10/18/20)
110. The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant (10/20/20)
111. A Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle (10/21/20)
112. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (10/22/20)
113. Godzilla on My Mind by William Tsutsui (10/24/20)
114. Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor (10/26/20)
115. Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom (10/28/20)
116. Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke (11/1/20)
117. Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor (11/1/20)
118. Nocturnal Missions by Gio Lassiter (11/2/20) (Workshop)
119. Hinterland by L.M. Brown (11/7/20)
120. The Deathless by Lynne Grigsby (11/8/20) (Workshop)
121. The Women of Weird Tales edited by Melanie R. Anderson (11/11/20)
122. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez (11/12/20)
123. The Caped Crusade by Glen Weldon (11/15/20)
124. The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler (11/19/20)
125. A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre (11/22/20)
126. The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories vol. 1 edited by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle (11/24/20)
127. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (11/26/20)
128. Adam in Eden by Carlos Fuentes (12/3/20)
129. Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (12/5/20)
130. Permafrost by Eva Baltasar Sardà (12/8/20)
131. Pet Sematary by Stephen King (12/13/20)
132. The Best Land Under Heaven by Michael Wallis (12/17/20)
133. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (12/24/20)
And for reference, here are the books I read in 2019.
Ryan C Bradley 
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