ScaredyKIT planning for 2025

Hi, everyone. For those who want to continue ScaredyKIT, in the past, we have read horror, thrillers, and true crime.

Personally, I'm not terribly creative, so I need suggestions to start with for hosting a month. Of course, if you have a new idea, those are welcome, too! Or if you want to mix and match or combine some of the options below, that works, too.

Here are some topics from previous years:

Gothic
Survival/Disaster
Weird Fiction
Supernatural
Close to Home
Adapted to Film
Science/Techno Thrillers
Series
Stephen King and Family
Ghost Stories/Hauntings
Serial Killers
Psychological Suspense/Psychological Thrillers
NPR 100 Best Horror Stories List or 100 Killer Thrillers List
The Corporeal Undead
True Crime
Chills and Thrills with Modern Horror/Thrillers (Contemporary Horror)
Children's Horror (or Horrific Children)
Monsters & Creatures
Small Press/Indie
1970s/1980s Horror
Paranormal
Occult
Cryptids and Legendary Creatures
Femmes Fatales
Halloween
Classics
Creepy Nonfiction
Anthologies, Short Stories, and Novellas
YA and Graphic Novels
Graphic Novels and Short Fiction
Possessed
Witches, Evil Spirits, and Black Magic
Diverse Perspectives
Adrift (Water and Outer Space)
The Dead, Their Habits and Abodes
Real-Life Monsters
Haunted Houses
Spiders, Snakes, and Other Creepy Crawlers
Switched
Out in the Wild
The Living Dead
Holiday Horror
Comedy Horror
Historical Horror
Food-Related Horror and Horror Cookbooks
Surviving the Horror
Horror Beach Reads
Your Favorite Scary Trope
Tricks, Not Treats
Things with a Bite - Vampires and Werewolves
Catch Up! Read Something That Fits Any Month's Theme
Female authors

I will keep track of months, who wants to do which and with which topic here:

January: Diverse Perspectives (Charon07)
February: Haunted Houses / Haunted Places (mstrust)
March: Real-life Monsters (True Crime) (LibraryCin)
April: Arachnids, Insects, and Reptilia (Tess_W)
May: Out in the Wild (DeltaQueen50)
June: YA and graphic novels (mstrust)
July: Ghosts (lowelibrary)
August: Female authors (Charon07)
September: Stephen King and family (lowelibrary)
October: Gothic (Tess_W)
November: Psychological Thrillers (LibraryCin)
December: Your Favorite Scary Trope (DeltaQueen50)

The wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2025_ScaredyKIT

Thanks for setting it up!
Can I have haunted houses/haunted places? February or March?

I like the sound of "Out in the Wild" can I have that for May? Thanks.

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I will do our annual Stephen King and family again in September.

>3 mstrust: I'll put you in for February unless someone else really wants that month. If they do (and no one has taken March, I can switch you).

>5 PhantomG: Welcome!

I’d like to do Diverse Perspectives. You can put me down for January, but the month doesn’t matter to me & I can switch if anyone wants or needs to.

>7 LibraryCin: 👍Thanks!

I have a few favourite topics myself. One has already been taken, and I already hosted two of them this year, so I don't know if I want to host the same ones next year. And I know I've done the other one before, too. Hmmmm...

For now, I'll wait to see what others want to do before I decide and grab a month myself.

In all honesty, I think we might not have as many participants in this one, so we might open up to people doing more than one month, again.
ETA: On looking back, maybe it was only three of us who did two months each.

Could I Please have Gothic for October? Thanks!

I'm new to the category challenge, so I don't feel comfortable hosting a month, but I would love to see a female authors month if anyone needs more ideas!

>13 GraceCollection: It's really easy to host a month. All you do is post the new thread on or around the 15th of the preceding month, describe the topic, and give a few suggestions. I encourage you to host! It's a great way to participate in the group, and I'd definitely enjoy that topic.

Thanks, LibraryCin, for getting the planning going. I'm also going to wait and see what topics are chosen but I will probably be willing to host at least one month.

>13 GraceCollection: You could choose the do the topic toward the end of the year, so you can watch what the rest of us do to set up each month/topic, if you'd like.

Let me know and I can add you, if you do decide. (But, let me know, anyway, as if you don't want to host the topic yourself, I'll add it to the list of possibilities.)

>14 sturlington: Sounds good. Just let me know when you decide!

>12 Tess_W: You are added!

Ok, I'm going to plunk myself down for "Real-life Monsters (True Crime)". I honestly don't recall if the "Real life monsters" was referring to true crime, but it sounds like it, so I'm going to say they are the same, cross them both off the topic list and host that one in... March.

>14 sturlington: I think I'll sit it out this time, but thank you for explaining!

Do we need people to take two months or do you think more hosts will apply?

If you want people to take more than one month I would take December with "Your Favorite Scary Trope".

>20 mstrust: I'm not sure. I think this year, only three people needed to do two months (if I counted that correctly). As it stands now, we only have six; if no one else steps forward, we'd need everyone else to do another month!

Did you want to sign up for a 2nd month? I think go ahead if you'd like to.

Sure, put me in for YA and graphic novels. Either June or July would be good.

Since we can’t convince >13 GraceCollection: to host, I’ll do female authors in August.

>23 mstrust: >24 Charon07: Thank you both!

>25 LibraryCin: I think you might have missed me at >21 DeltaQueen50: for December with "Your Favorite Scary Trope".

>26 DeltaQueen50: I did miss that one. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

ETA: It looks like we posted at almost the same time, so I bet when I loaded the page, it wasn't there, but when I posted, it was just before mine. Anyway, adding you in now!

I'll likely do another, but I'm trying to decide which one. I think I'll add myself in for November.

I will take April for Arachnids, Insects, and Reptilia, please.

>29 Tess_W: Thanks, Tess!

One of my other favourites (and I did host it this year, as well, I believe), is psychological thrillers. I've taken November. I also noticed that "Psychological mysteries and thrillers" is the MysteryKIT in November.

So, I'm debating about plunking that one into November for us, and it will make it easy for people to do both with one book!

OR, do I choose the other one I really would like to do (serial killers), since we can do psychological thrillers for the MysteryKIT?

Does anyone have a preference on which one they'd prefer?

I hate to put it this way, but I'd never say no to a month of serial killers.

>31 LibraryCin: Or you could mix them together and have a month of psychological thrillers and/or serial killers.

>32 mstrust: and >33 DeltaQueen50: These would be a no for me but a yes for others.

LOL! Maybe I'll stick with Psychological thrillers. That will make it easy for people to do both challenges, since it's the same month, even.

So, we just need one more for July.

I will finish the calendar and take July as a second month. The topic will be Ghosts

>37 lowelibrary: Thank you so much!

We are now full!

I see that some of the other wikis are already set up. I do know how to do that and will do it, but it may not happen for another week or so. Weekends are usually when I have more time, but I will be away next weekend (for my "younger" brother's 50th birthday!).

I finally took a few minutes to set up the wiki. It's here:
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2025_ScaredyKIT

I will also add this to >2 LibraryCin: and let the creator of this group know so the link can also be added to the description of the group.

The January thread is up!
https://www.librarything.com/topic/366497