Andrew Michael Hurley 2014
- What it is
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Horror in the countryside, with old rites · it stays with you
- Genre
- Literary 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.
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You read it holding your breath · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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You read it holding your breath · you'll keep turning it over for days
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You read it holding your breath · the truth comes out bit by bit
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You read it holding your breath · melancholic and unhurried
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Water Cure
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You read it holding your breath · a place nobody can leave
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You read it holding your breath · you'll keep turning it over for days
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Unsettling from the first page · pitch-black comedy
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You read it holding your breath, but in science fiction
A Study in Drowning
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You read it holding your breath, but in fantasy
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A threat that keeps growing, but in a thriller
Turn of the Screw
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You read it holding your breath · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Unsettling from the first page · a haunted house
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Unsettling from the first page · it won't tell you everything at once
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Unsettling from the first page · moving between parallel worlds
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Grouped with yours in Folk horror where the old ways never stopped
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