Stephen King · 1996
- What it is
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Properly scary · something is lurking
- Genre
- Horror
- Feels
- Chilling Ominous Unsettling Haunting 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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King Sorrow
Joe Hill · 2025
It'll scare you
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Properly scary · it won't tell you everything at once
The Patient
Jasper DeWitt · 2020
It'll scare you · the walls come in on you
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft · 1971
Properly scary · it won't tell you everything at once
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Naomi's Room
Jonathan Aycliffe · 1991
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