Stephen King · 1996
- What it is
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Something is lurking · one you can't put down
- Genre
- Horror Thriller Fantasy
- Feels
- Ominous Propulsive Tense Atmospheric Dark
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
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The Patient
Jasper DeWitt · 2020
Something bad in the air · it'll scare you
Ballad of Black Tom
Victor D. LaValle · 2016
Something bad in the air · hard, and nobody dresses it up
Shining
Stephen King · 1992
Something is lurking · it leaves you short of breath
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez · 2019
Something is lurking · the walls come in on you
Whatever you're after
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Damascus Station
David Mccloskey · 2021
Nobody puts it down · hard, and nobody dresses it up
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins · 2015
Nobody puts it down · a mystery you want to unravel
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