gretchen reads (& writes about) books

Current literary vibe & genre fixation: decolonized & indigenous dark fiction. 

Making sense of the senseless violence of colonialism through Indigenous myths and monsters that emerge at the intersection of decolonization, horror, and folklore.



a literary compendium of folklore & horror

Gretchen Reads (& sometimes writes about) books is a literary compendium of memories, stories, and lore.

Gretchen Reads (& sometimes writes about) is a book blog for readers constantly searching for ghosts & myths readers who “do not love men” but who “love what devours them.” (Andre Gide) readers reclaiming & recreating folklore & mythology of the dispossessed & the oppressed & for readers decolonizing monsters

genres: horror, mystery, literary thriller, decolonized fiction, indigenous dark fiction, absurdism, post-colonialism, folk horror, mythology, dark feminism, gothic feminist literature, hi