Richard Matheson 1970
- What it is
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A twist at the end that changes everything · you can't put it down
- Genre
- Horror Science fiction
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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7 books
A threat that keeps growing and outbreak
'Salem's Lot
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Properly scary · a world to get lost in
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Properly scary · it tells it with no filter
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Unsettling from the first page · nothing is quite what it seems
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Unsettling from the first page · it tells it with no filter
Caliban's War
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You read it holding your breath · the truth comes out bit by bit
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A threat that keeps growing and twist ending
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It'll scare you · nobody is entirely good
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Properly scary · it's hiding a secret
Psycho
Robert Bloch 1959
Properly scary · a twist at the end that changes everything
14 books · Alike in just one
Only a threat that keeps growing
At the Mountains of Madness
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Properly scary · the truth comes out bit by bit
Dark Matter
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Unsettling from the first page · nothing is quite what it seems
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Elliot Ackerman 2021
Unsettling from the first page · nothing is quite what it seems
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher 2020
It'll scare you · moving between parallel worlds
The ritual
Adam Nevill 2012
Properly scary · horror in the countryside, with old rites
The last days of Jack Sparks
Jason Arnopp 2016
It'll scare you · a cozy mystery, no gore
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris 1988
It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
September House
Carissa Orlando 2023
Properly scary · a haunted house
16 books · Alike in just one
Only outbreak
Day by Day Armageddon
J. L. Bourne 2009
You can't put it down · it tells it straight
Wanderers
Chuck Wendig 2019
One more chapter, then another · a big story that sweeps you along
Feed
Seanan McGuire 2010
You'll finish it in two nights · fierce and defiant
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica 2015
In common with yours: outbreak · it leaves you shaken
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood 2002
In common with yours: outbreak · it stirs you up inside
Living Dead
George A. Romero 2010
You can't put it down · it tells it with no filter
Earth abides
George Rippey Stewart 1949
Like yours: outbreak · it hurts, and then it heals
The reapers are the angels
Alden Bell 2010
In common with yours: outbreak · fierce and defiant
Between two fires
Christopher Buehlman 2012
Like yours: outbreak · it ties your stomach in a knot
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel 2014
Like yours: outbreak · it hurts, and then it heals
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
In common with yours: outbreak · full of big ideas
Zone One
Colson Whitehead 2011
Like yours: outbreak · it messes with your head
Rojo no 1/3
Carlos Sisí 2019
One more chapter, then another · an epidemic changes everything
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