I’ve read: The Shining, Doctor Sleep, The Mist, Jaws, Haunting of Hill House, Amityville Haunting, I Am Legend, Hell House, The Exorcist, & Legion.
I enjoy books that have twists, deeper meanings, lots of action. Likable characters. I prefer a happy ish ending.
by anoncheesegrater
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Cabin at the end of the world
You might like Grady Hendrix. I especially enjoyed The Final Girl Support Group
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Rebecca
A Kiss Before Dying
A Simple Plan
House of Leaves — Mark Danielewski
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer. Loved it but the ending is wild, leading many readers to think there’s a second book coming. It will be a Netflix original soon!
House on Needless street
The ritual
The Last Days of Jack Sparks. John Dies at the End series.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
*The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August* by Claire North.
Unwind and Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places. She somehow manages to write cozy horror. Give her a try. Wildly, she also writes children’s books. Two very, very different audiences, and she does both well. I also enjoyed her fantasy novel Nettle and Bone, but it’s not horror like most of her other adult books.
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Mindfuck?
Bunny, Nightbitch, Tender is the Flesh, Perfume.
Happy endings? Eh…not really?
Your read list suggests you enjoy some ghosts. I’m going to go with September House by Carissa Orlando.
Only Good Indians. Monsters and gore and racism
Lapvona. Fucked up little town
Dahlgren. This book will never leave your head. Tw gratuitous 70s free love
I have a few, depending on what you’re going for:
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Jeff VanderMeer’s **Annihilation** (the entire Southern Reach trilogy, actually. I fell asleep reading it on the first night and I had the most intense fever-dream of my life. This book is unsettling as fuck.
Also, **The Wasp Factory** by Iain Banks. I went into this blind after I read on this sub that it was the most fucked up book they’d ever read. I didn’t know what to expect, and it kept getting worse and more unsettling.
**Watership Down** scared me as an early reader and I don’t have the guts to pick it up again as an adult.
**Piranesi** by Susanna Clark. Not scary, but definitely a trippy, mind-fuck of a book. I can’t describe how it makes you feel. I was absolutely BLINDSIDED by this one. I also went into this one blind and felt like I had hit the lottery.
**The Spear Cuts Through Water** by Simon Jimenez. This is the best book I’ve ever read in my life. The Second Terror is the scariest character I’ve ever read. There are a few scenes in this book that traumatized me. I literally got physically ill during parts of this book. The writing is superb. It took the autbor 6 years to write this book, and he wrote the ever-loving fuck out of every page.
**A Cosmology of Monsters** by Shaun Hamill. Total mind-trip. The audiobook did a great job of making ominous or scary scenes truly ominous or scary (due to one sound effect- you’d have to listen to understand).
**Geek Love** by Katherine Dunn. You’ll never read anything like it. Unsettling as fuck. The main antagonist scared the shit out of me.
Revival by Stephen King. Some great horror and stays with you for a while after you’re done.