The Perfect Eclectic Fall New England Road Trip TBR

A psychopath leaving behind a “chestnut man” made of matchsticks and two chestnuts is terrorizing Copenhagen. While investigating, they find a fingerprint of a government minister’s young daughter who was kidnapped and murdered a year ago.

No one is safe and two detectives have to put aside their differences to piece together the clues.

Emery’s life changed the night her best friend was murdered and the love of her life was accused of committing said murder. Now, years later, she runs the family tea shop on Saoirse Island, an island rooted in folklore and magic, and something she said she would never do.

But one day strange things start to happen on the island and she knows something is brewing. Then, when she wakes up and sees every leaf on every tree on the island has changed color overnight, August, who is unwelcome on the island, return for the first time in fourteen years to unearth the past everyone tried so hard to forget.

In July 1962, a Mi’kamq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer, a tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia. Four weeks later, Ruthie, the youngest child of the family, disappears. She was last seen by her six-year-old brother Joe, and this is something that will haunt him for years.

Norma is an only child with an emotionally distant father and overprotective mother. She’s plagued by dreams that feel more like memories and as she grows older, she comes to realize her parents are hiding something from her.

Jake Baker grew up in seedy Niagara Falls in the 80s, living with his eccentric occult-artifact-conspiracy-theory-enthusiast uncle, Calvin. The summer he turns twelve, a pair of siblings move to town, and Jake and his uncle initiate them into the Saturday Night Ghost Club.

But as the summer continues, what started as a fun little project begins to uncover something much darker that no one expected.

Also, fun fact, Craig Davidson is Nick Cutter! I was shocked when I learned this.

This is part of a seasonal quartet that I saw recommended under “no plot just vibes.” I’m not entirely sure how to describe this, so here is the description as-is.

“Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends—Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984—look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.”

When the eleven-year-old son of Magos died, she cut out a piece of his lung, which she nurtures until it gains sentience, something done out of maternal instinct and by the logic of an old folktale.

She keeps the carnivorous little Monstrilio, who eventually starts to resemble Santiago, hidden in their Mexico City estate, but his innate impulses threaten his second chance at life, despite his family’s communal care.

Margaret never fit in with the drawing rooms and parlors of her kin in New England, instead she is called to the woods and cliffs around her family’s estate. She grew both more strange and beautiful as her powers developed, but soon whispers of “witch” started to come around and her powers began to take a dark turn.

One hundred fifty hears later, Augusta gets her dream job at the Harlowe House, a museum in Tynemouth, Massachusetts, where she stumbles on a reference to a daughter of the Harlowe family who has nearly been removed from historical record.

It’s too intriguing to ignore, and as she digs deeper to uncover the truth, a dark power binds them together, and if she isn’t careful, everything she knows and loves could be lost forever.

Margaret and Hal couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own after they found the large Victorian house for a surprisingly reasonable price on Hawthorn Street.

Until they discovered the hauntings that happen every September: walls dripping blood, ghosts of former inhabitants, and worst of all, the thing that lurks in the basement.

Most people would flee, including Hal after four years, but Margaret is determined to stay. When he disappears, Hal stops returning calls and their daughter Katherine shows up to look for him. But she knows nothing of the hauntings. Even worse, September is here, and the hauntings get worse the more they try to find Hal because the house has it’s own secrets to hide.

Abe and Dan are friends and widowers who have heard of the promises of Dutchman’s Creek, flowing from the Ashokan Reservoir. They dismiss the story but soon find themselves drawn into a story as old as the reservoir itself and they must now face all that they’ve lost.

In the same vain as The Sundown Motel, this takes place in 1950 and 2014. In 1950 there is a place for troubled girls called Idlewild Hall and rumor is, it’s haunted. Four roommates bond over their fears, until one of them goes missing.

In 2014,Fiona cant stop thinking about her older sisters death. Twenty years ago her body was found in a fields near the runs of Idlewild Hall. While her boyfriend was arrested, Fiona is convinced something isn’t right about the case.