Horror Explorers "Secret Satan" Gift Exchange & Children's Horror lit Dec Discussion @ Torg Brewery

The Horror Explorers are celebrating busy December with very short reads: children’s horror! Choose your own child or teen horror book or series and come discuss! Our meeting will be full of nostalgia & laughs and YOU’RE INVITED!

If you want in on the “Secret Satan” (lolololol) gift exchange, sign up here ASAP! https://forms.gle/rpBWJHughWMWpftbA We’re using elf names as aliases just in case anyone is worried about too much info going on the Internet. It’s just for funsies if you choose to participate. Nobody is obligated to. THANK YOU Mike for organizing this!

Join us in the Speakeasy Room (ground level) at Torg Brewing in Spring Lake Park! We’ve reserved the creepy basement for a gift exchange & children’s horror discussion Sunday, December 14th at 5pm. Torg is not charging us for the space, so please support their business! Beverages available upstairs & readers pay their own tabs. Torg offers beer, seltzers & non-alcoholic options. They do not have a kitchen but sell pre-packaged pretzels & cookies. Feel free to bring your own snacks!

Parking is FREE in marked spaces in their lot, all along the fence + building to the north. Additional parking is also available at the back of Chet’s Shoes.

Torg Brewery
8421 University Avenue Northeast,
Spring Lake Park, MN
Sunday 12.14.25 in the Speakeasy: ground level, entrance underneath the patio lights & seating. If you enter thru the Accessible Entrance, you’ll have to go around the upper level, then down the steps into the basement/ground level. They have 2 doors. If you don’t see our room right away, we’re prolly the other door lol



BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: our free lil horror book basket! Take a book, leave a book & share the love of horror with the club!

Upcoming discussions:
January 2026 “Misery” by Stephen King
February 2026 "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn
March 2026 "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson
April 2026 “Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
May 2026 “Jackal” by Erin E. Anderson

Past discussions:
June 2024 "Looking Glass Sound" by Catriona Ward
July 2024 "Baby Teeth" by Zoje Stage
August 2024 "By the Light of Dead Stars" by Andrew Van Wey
September 2024 “Matters Most Macabre” by local author Tylor James
October 2024 “The October Country" by Ray Bradbury
November 2024 “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski
December 2024 "I Found Christmas Lights Slithering up my Street" by Ben Farthing
January 2025 "The Butcher of the Forest" by Premee Mohamed
February 2025 “The Toll” by Cherie Priest
March 2025 “Ghost Story” by Peter Straub
April 2025 “The Loney” Andrew Michael Hurley
May 2025 “Heart-Shaped Box” by Joe Hill
June 2025 “Penpal” by Dathan Auerbach
July 2025 “God of Endings” by local author Jacqueline Holland
August 2025 “Don’t Look Now: Stories” by Daphne Du Maurier
September 2025 “A Head Full of Ghosts” by Paul Tremblay
October 2025 “Intercepts” by T. J. Payne
November 2025 “Strange Pictures” by Uketsu (translation by Jim Rion)


Horror Explorers Book Club info:
We're a group of horror readers in the Twin Cities that discuss books in the horror arena. Come to the ones you can, or if you're intrigued by the book choice! Each month's books are selected ahead of time, to give our members a chance to request their preferred format into their home library. Everyone is welcome to attend; finishing the book is NOT a requirement to visit!! No static location/date/date, but we DO rotate locations so nobody always has to drive the furthest. We vote on meeting dates by majority rule.

If you know someone who might be interested, but is not on Facebook, we are also on the BookClubs app platform. Feel free to join or invite your friend:
https://bookclubs.com/horror-explorers/join/

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