I haven't read a book in quite a while, with my exams and stuff and I'd like to get back into the hobby. I used to be a huge horror junkie and I want something new (I've already read The shining, It and a lot of Lovecraft's work) Preferably, books that are obscure and not that well known.
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The Devil and the Blacksmith: A New England Folktale by Jéanpaul Ferro
It’s about a shape-shifting shadow person who visits a POW in Andersonville Prison Camp and offers him a way home back to his village in Rhode Island, but the two wind up in a wild odyssey of supernatural trickery, savage brutality, and a life and death battle that is very weird and haunting. Set in the same town in Rhode Island, Scituate, that H.P. Lovecraft set the “blasted heath” in The Colour of Outer Space,” it details how the town of Scituate that once had 14 villages ended up under water by supernatural forces. It isn’t like other horror novels in the genre. I think it takes more chances, is more literary, and the epilogue ending, which is a photographic scrap book is pretty damn haunting and unlike any book, of any kind, I’ve ever read. And it changes everything you just read before it into a new horrifying light. It is one of the many great aspects of the book!
I don’t like horror books particularly (the last one I enjoyed was Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky), but my husband is a huge horror junkie. He says How to Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix is his most recent favorite horror read; one scene in particular was one of the scariest things he’s ever read. (and is why I have NOT read it. :-))
The next one on my list is the metamorphosis of prime intellect by Roger Williams
Victor LaValle: *The Ballad of Black Tom*
Pet Sematary – Stephen King
House of Leaves is a wild ride and completely unique. This one actually spooked me IRL. I recommend buying the full color hardcover edition.
11/22/63 by Stephen King is fantastic but not typical horror. Time travel/thriller.
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill was a completely unique take on vampires.
The Stand by Stephen King was terrific, but it’s a long read. Apocalyptic horror.
If you are interested in classic horror, The Monk by Gregory Lewis is a gothic mystery/horror. Disturbing for sure.
If you’re interested in some offbeat horror:
John Darnielle writes really cool, weird, horror-adjacent stuff.
Iain Reid’s novel I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
The troop by nick cutter
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Murder Road by Simone St. James