The 7 books on this stack
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Stephen King 1992 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · haunted house
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One of the true classics of horror, THE SHINING is regarded as one of Stephen King's masterpieces.
Why this book Drayfus
Snowed in for the whole winter in a mountain hotel, and the boiler that keeps you alive has to be watched every single day. The snow decides nobody leaves. The building decides the rest.
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H.P. Lovecraft 1971
Why it's on the stack
You read it holding your breath · the truth comes out bit by bit
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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.
Why this book Drayfus
The ice down there keeps things. That's the problem. Written as a warning to the next expedition, by someone who wishes he'd never flown over those mountains.
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Dan Simmons 2007
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you · survival
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The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic…
Why this book Drayfus
Two real ships, frozen into the Arctic for years. Scurvy, starvation and cold would have been enough. Something out on the ice decided it wasn't. Half of this is history, which is the worst part.
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Michelle Paver 2010
Why it's on the stack
A threat that keeps growing · it stays with you
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'What is it? What does it want?
Why this book Drayfus
Svalbard, 1937. The sun goes down for months and the others have to leave. One man, one cabin, a journal, and the growing sense he isn't alone out there. Quiet, and it gets under your skin
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Michelle Paver 2017
Why this book Drayfus
A 1935 climb up Kangchenjunga, following an expedition that went wrong. Up there the cold and the thin air make you doubt your own eyes, so you never know if what you saw was there.
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John W. Campbell 1948
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you · it messes with your head
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A remote scientific research expedition at the North Pole is invaded by a monstrous alien, reawakened after lying frozen for centuries after a crash-landing.
Why this book Drayfus
An Antarctic base, the dead of winter, and something thawed out of the ice that could be wearing any of their faces. Nobody can leave. Short, mean, and the reason The Thing exists.
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Alma Katsu 2018
Why it's on the stack
Unsettling from the first page · survival
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Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. Tamsen Donner must be a witch.
Why this book Drayfus
The Donner Party, snowed in at the pass in 1846. Katsu adds something in the woods, but the snow is the real killer, and it's all documented. Ordinary families, caught halfway by winter