Haunted by the ghost of your 2026 reading goals? Exorcise the curse at this horrifying book fair. For its fourth year, the independent small press Ghoulish Books will host over a dozen indie presses and authors during genre film extravaganza Fantastic Fest. Comics, anthologies, and novels abound to infect your TBR list. You may even find local tomes by Austin-based writers like Richard Z. Santos or Miguel Villa. Resurrect your love for horror; come on, you can’t keep re-reading your old Goosebumps. – Charlie Sharpe
