Stephen King · 1959
- What it is
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Something is lurking · it stays with you
- Genre
- Horror
- Feels
- Ominous Haunting Tense Atmospheric Dark
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Ballad of Black Tom
Victor D. LaValle · 2016
Something bad in the air · hard, and nobody dresses it up
Shining
Stephen King · 1992
Something is lurking · it leaves you short of breath
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez · 2019
Something is lurking · the walls come in on you
Hex
Thomas Olde Heuvelt · 2001
Something is lurking · it ties your stomach in a knot
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The ritual
Adam Nevill · 2012
Something is lurking · it closes in on you
Slewfoot
Brom · 2021
Something is lurking · hard, and nobody dresses it up
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