Carissa Orlando 2023
- What it is
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A haunted house · it gets under your skin
- Genre
- Horror Fantasy
- Feels
- Chilling Unsettling Defiant Dark Tense
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Starve Acre
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House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski 1998
Properly scary · you'll keep turning it over for days
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The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher 2020
It'll scare you · moving between parallel worlds
The last days of Jack Sparks
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It'll scare you · a cozy mystery, no gore
Lesser Dead
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Properly scary · pitch-black comedy
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Properly scary · it tells it with no filter
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It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft 1971
Properly scary · the truth comes out bit by bit
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon 2018
It'll scare you · horror in the countryside, with old rites
The ritual
Adam Nevill 2012
Properly scary · horror in the countryside, with old rites
Psycho
Robert Bloch 1959
Properly scary · a twist at the end that changes everything
The Croning
Laird Barron 2012
It'll scare you · nothing is quite what it seems
Turn of the Screw
Henry James 2003
Readers put them together in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris 1988
It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
End of October
Lawrence Wright 2020
Properly scary, but in a thriller
Night Film
Marisha Pessl 2013
It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
1 book · Alike in just one
Only haunted house
Beloved
Toni Morrison 1987
Readers put them together in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
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