Stephen King 1996
- What it is
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Horror in the countryside, with old rites · it leaves you shaken
- Genre
- Horror Thriller
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 · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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It'll scare you · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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Properly scary · it's hiding a secret
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Grouped with yours in Made you feel so scared you felt unsafe
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It'll scare you · a cozy mystery, no gore
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Readers put them together in Made you feel so scared you felt unsafe
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It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
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Properly scary · a twist at the end that changes everything
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It'll scare you · nobody is entirely good
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It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
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Properly scary · a world to get lost in
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It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
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Only properly scary
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Readers put them together in Made you feel so scared you felt unsafe
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Properly scary · it tells it with no filter
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020
Properly scary · the truth comes out bit by bit
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It'll scare you · moving between parallel worlds
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft 1971
Properly scary · the truth comes out bit by bit
September House
Carissa Orlando 2023
Properly scary · a haunted house
Haunting of Hill House
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The Woman in Black
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It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
Dark matter
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Properly scary · it stays with you
The Croning
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It'll scare you · nothing is quite what it seems
House of Leaves
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Readers put them together in Made you feel so scared you felt unsafe
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Christopher Buehlman 2014
Properly scary · pitch-black comedy
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Properly scary · one family, generation after generation
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Only folk horror
The Fisherman
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It stirs you up inside · it won't tell you everything at once
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It ties your stomach in a knot · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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It stirs you up inside · it won't tell you everything at once
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In common with yours: folk horror · odd and endearing
Loney
Andrew Michael Hurley 2014
You read it holding your breath · it leaves you thinking
4 books · Alike in just one
Only the plot drives it
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It'll scare you · it tells it straight
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It ties your stomach in a knot · you won't want to come back
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