Stephen King 1992
- What it is
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A haunted house · it gets under your skin
- Genre
- Horror
- Feels
- Chilling Melancholic Unsettling Dark Tense
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, but in a mystery
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It ties your stomach in a knot, but in a thriller
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It'll scare you · moving between parallel worlds
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It ties your stomach in a knot · properly strange
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Properly scary · one family, generation after generation
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Properly scary · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Properly scary · properly strange
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It'll scare you · it leaves you thinking
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