Hello everyone! Like I said in the title, I’m looking for some book to get me started into the horror world. I usually read romance, fantasy, fiction and thriller (mostly), although I remember reading a lot of creepypastas and short horror stories as a teen and enjoying them a lot too, so I think it might be time to give a proper horror book a go but I don’t really know where to start…
Do y’all have any suggestion that think anyone could like entering the horror section? Thanks so much in advance!
by danetsch
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The Haunting of Hill House is a classic haunted house horror that is far more psychological and eerie than many modern horror books. Great for slowburn creepy vibes.
Dreadful Tales by Richard Laymon is a collection of short horror stories .. some grotesque, some creepy, but all compelling. You can try that one as well
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
**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 epic book!