Adam Nevill 2012
- What it is
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Horror in the countryside, with old rites · properly scary
- Genre
- Horror Thriller
- Feels
- Chilling Atmospheric 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 · it won't tell you everything at once
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It'll scare you · a cozy mystery, no gore
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The Hollow Places
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It'll scare you · moving between parallel worlds
End of October
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It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
Psycho
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Properly scary · a twist at the end that changes everything
Little Stranger B
Sarah Waters 2009
It'll scare you · it leaves you thinking
Lesser Dead
Christopher Buehlman 2014
Properly scary · pitch-black comedy
14 books · Alike in just one
Only folk horror
Slewfoot
Brom 2021
Readers put them together in Folk horror where the old ways never stopped
Day by Day Armageddon
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It'll scare you · it tells it straight
Loney
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Readers put them together in Folk horror where the old ways never stopped
The Invisible Guardian
Dolores Redondo 2013
It stirs you up inside · it won't tell you everything at once
The Fisherman
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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
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Michael Crichton 1990
Unsettling from the first page · nothing is quite what it seems
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Properly scary · one more chapter, then another
The Haunted Forest Tour
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Like yours: survival · adventure, and laughs all the way
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