Susan Hill · 1984
- What it is
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Properly scary · it stays with you
- Genre
- Horror Mystery
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Readers put them together in Gothic novels with big house and old secrets
The Patient
Jasper DeWitt · 2020
It'll scare you · something bad in the air
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft · 1971
Properly scary · it won't tell you everything at once
Pet Sematary
Stephen King · 1996
Properly scary · something is lurking
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 2002
Readers put them together in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
Hell House
Richard Matheson · 1971
Readers put them together in Ghost stories where the dead won't leave
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