Andrew Michael Hurley 2019
- What it is
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Horror in the countryside, with old rites · properly scary
- Genre
- Horror Literary
- 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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