Richard Matheson 1971
- What it is
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A haunted house · it grabs you with a mystery
- Genre
- Horror Science fiction Thriller
- Feels
- Chilling Unsettling Mysterious Dark Tense
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.
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It'll scare you · a twist at the end that changes everything
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The truth comes out bit by bit · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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The truth comes out bit by bit · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
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A threat that keeps growing and haunted house
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The Woman in Black
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Grouped with yours in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
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Properly scary · it stays with you
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It'll scare you · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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It won't tell you everything at once · nothing is quite what it seems
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Properly scary · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
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A threat that keeps growing and the plot drives it
End of October
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Properly scary · a world to get lost in
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It'll scare you · a cozy mystery, no gore
The Silence of the Lambs
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It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
Psycho
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Properly scary · a twist at the end that changes everything
Recursion
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It won't tell you everything at once · nothing is quite what it seems
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It won't tell you everything at once · nothing is quite what it seems
FAIL-SAFE
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It gets under your skin · it messes with your head
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It'll scare you · a twist at the end that changes everything
2034
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Unsettling from the first page · nothing is quite what it seems
Verity
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Properly scary · nobody is entirely good
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Haunted house and the plot drives it
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Only a threat that keeps growing
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Properly scary · horror in the countryside, with old rites
The Hollow Places
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It'll scare you · moving between parallel worlds
At the Mountains of Madness
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Properly scary · in search of a lost world or a treasure
The Hunger
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Properly scary · it tells it with no filter
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Mexican Gothic
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Properly scary · a haunted house
Little Stranger B
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Readers put them together in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
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Properly scary · properly strange
Beloved
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Readers put them together in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski 1998
Properly scary · you'll keep turning it over for days
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Only the plot drives it
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It'll scare you · it tells it straight
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