The 7 books on this stack
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H.P. Lovecraft 1971
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · in search of a lost world or a treasure
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
Few writers can evoke such nightmarish visions as H. P. Lovecraft—and few of his stories are as chilling as these canonical tales of terror.
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T. Kingfisher 2020
Why it's on the stack
Unsettling from the first page · moving between parallel worlds
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house.
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Laird Barron 2012
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight.
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Stephen King 2014
Why it's on the stack
It stirs you up inside
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.
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Victor D. LaValle 2016 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you · fierce and defiant
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
The Ballad of Black Tom —the Hugo, Nebula, Locus , World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Award finalist and Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award-winning excavation of Lovecraftian mythos by Victor…
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Jeff VanderMeer 2014 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It won't tell you everything at once · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades.
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John Langan 2016 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It stirs you up inside · learning to live after a loss
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true.