Bridget Collins · 2025
- What it is
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Properly scary · it stays with you
- Genre
- Short stories Horror
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
Books similar to Witching Hour
Coming from Witching Hour? Start with Mexican Gothic, At the Mountains of Madness, Pet Sematary. 3 more below, each with why it fits.
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Properly scary · it won't tell you everything at once
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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Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist · 2008
It leaves you thinking · a small story, told up close
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 2002
It leaves something behind · it leaves you short of breath
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