Victor D. LaValle 2016
- What it is
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A myth or a classic told anew · properly scary
- Genre
- Fantasy Horror
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to Ballad of Black Tom
Coming from Ballad of Black Tom? Start with The Croning, The Hollow Places, Revival. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
4 books
Properly scary and unflinching
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It'll scare you · surviving with everything scarce
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It'll scare you · you can't put it down
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Alma Katsu 2018
Properly scary · surviving with everything scarce
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Retelling and unflinching
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Fierce and defiant · tender and sad at once
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Natalie Haynes 2019
Fierce and defiant, but in a classic
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Vaishnavi Patel 2022
Fierce and defiant · a big story that sweeps you along
10 books · Alike in just one
Only properly scary
The Croning
Laird Barron 2012
Grouped with yours in Cosmic horror where knowing is the wound
Revival
Stephen King 2014
Grouped with yours in Cosmic horror where knowing is the wound
Lesser Dead
Christopher Buehlman 2014
Properly scary · pitch-black comedy
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon 2018
It'll scare you · horror in the countryside, with old rites
The ritual
Adam Nevill 2012
Properly scary · horror in the countryside, with old rites
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez 2019
Properly scary · one family, generation after generation
September House
Carissa Orlando 2023
Properly scary · a haunted house
Home Before Dark
Todd Ritter 2020
Properly scary · it's hiding a secret
Naomi's Room
Jonathan Aycliffe 1991
Properly scary · properly strange
10 books · Alike in just one
Only retelling
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Jonathan L. Howard 2008
In common with yours: retelling · odd and endearing
Historian
Elizabeth Kostova 2005
Like yours: retelling · the truth comes out bit by bit
Circe
Madeline Miller 2018
Like yours: retelling
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint 2021
Like yours: retelling · you won't want to come back
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 2008
In common with yours: retelling · a world to get lost in
The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart 1974
In common with yours: retelling · a world to get lost in
Daughter of the forest
Juliet Marillier 2000
Like yours: retelling · it's hiding a secret
Spear
Nicola Griffith 2022
In common with yours: retelling · love in the middle of danger
5 books · Alike in just one
Only unflinching
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix 2020
Fierce and defiant · a book about books
Devolution
Max Brooks 2020
Fierce and defiant · a threat that keeps growing
Parable Of The Sower
Octavia E. Butler 1993
Fierce and defiant, but in science fiction
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski 1998
Properly scary · you'll keep turning it over for days
Feed
Seanan McGuire 2010
Fierce and defiant · you'll finish it in two nights
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Grouped with yours in Cosmic horror where knowing is the wound
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Grouped with yours in Cosmic horror where knowing is the wound
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It ties your stomach in a knot · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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Readers put them together in Cosmic horror where knowing is the wound
Dark matter
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Properly scary · it stays with you
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Properly scary · the truth comes out bit by bit
Between two fires
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It ties your stomach in a knot · a long road where every step counts
The Woman in Black
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It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
Little Stranger B
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It'll scare you · it leaves you thinking
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Jeff VanderMeer 2014
Grouped with yours in Cosmic horror where knowing is the wound
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Clive Barker 1989
Properly strange · a world to get lost in
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Shirley Jackson 2002
It'll scare you · the truth comes out bit by bit
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It ties your stomach in a knot · you'll keep turning it over for days
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The truth comes out bit by bit · love in the middle of danger
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