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Saratoga Schaefer

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Website

https://saratogaschaefer.com/

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Genre

Thriller, Horror, Suspense

Member Since

May 2024

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Saratoga Schaefer (they/them) is the USA Today Bestselling and Indie Press Bestselling author of vicious horrors and twisted thrillers. Their books have been featured in Variety, People Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour, and their writing has appeared in Writer’s Digest, CrimeReads, and more. Originally from Brooklyn, Saratoga now lives upstate with several needy animals and a haunted clown table.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 10,237 ratings · 2,393 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Serial Killer Support Group 3.67 avg rating — 7,585 ratings — published 2025 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trad Wife 3.88 avg rating — 2,598 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Time We Drowned 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful After Breaking: A Poetry Collection 4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Monstrous Forms: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Saratoga Schaefer wants to read It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Saratoga Schaefer rated a book it was amazing The Last Time We Drowned by Saratoga Schaefer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
imagine I rated this like 3 stars lol. CONTENT WARNINGS (can also be found on my website): (view spoiler) ...more
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Saratoga Schaefer rated a book it was amazing Bodies of Work by Clay McLeod Chapman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Clay McLeod Chapman deftly handles the true horror of a serial killer alongside a surprisingly empowering arc for said killer's victims. This is not just a dive into a deranged mind; it's a stunning portrayal of outsider art and how one's body of wor ...more
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Saratoga Schaefer and 17 other people liked Horror Reads's review of Trad Wife: "This novel brilliantly delves into the world of traditional wives and social media influencers while also getting bloody and gloriously gruesome. Camille is dedicated to being a perfect tradwife. Everything about her life is meticulously dedicated to" Read more of this review »
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Dear reader—this is your space and I won’t linger, I’m just dropping by with some content warnings (below) and a suggestion that you listen to Paris Paloma’s “LABOUR - the cacophony” at least eight hundred times while reading this book to get the ful ...more
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This is a book about serial killers. As such, it’s dark and deals with intense, adult themes, which might be obvious from the cover and title. Though there is some gallows humor, the murderers in this novel think, say, and do bad things that might be ...more
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“this heavy presence of absence.”
― Saratoga Schaefer, Serial Killer Support Group

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“Maybe I don’t want to raise a traditional wife. Maybe I want to raise a feral woman.”
― Saratoga Schaefer, Trad Wife

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2nd Quarter 2026 - Horror #1

Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher (288 pp)

8 votes, 61.5%

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward (304 pp)

2 votes, 15.4%

Bone Black by Carol Rose GoldenEagle (256 pp)

1 vote, 7.7%

Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer (320 pp)

1 vote, 7.7%

The Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924 by Elinor Mordaunt (306 pp)

1 vote, 7.7%

The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel (416 pp)

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Cabaret in Flames by Hache Pueyo (160 pp)

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