i’m looking for some good horror novellas! i feel like so many of the popular horror novels i see being recommended are like 400 to 600 pages, and unfortunately i just do not have the motivation to get through that many pages. id really appreciate some recommendations for horror novels that you guys enjoyed that were under or right around 250!
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The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
*The Hellbound Heart* (which inspired the Hellraiser films), and *Cabal*, both by Clive Barker, are around 180 pages each.
Stephen King has several books that are collections of short stories or novellas. Of them I think Different Seasons was my favorite.
[*Night Shift*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Shift_(short_story_collection)) (1978), [*Skeleton Crew*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Crew_(short_story_collection)) (1985), [*Nightmares & Dreamscapes*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_%26_Dreamscapes) (1993), [*Everything’s Eventual*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything%27s_Eventual) (2002), [*Just After Sunset*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_After_Sunset) (2008), [*The Bazaar of Bad Dreams*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bazaar_of_Bad_Dreams) (2015), [*You Like It Darker*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Like_It_Darker) (2024): [*Different Seasons*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_Seasons) (1982), [*Four Past Midnight*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Past_Midnight) (1990), [*Hearts in Atlantis*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_in_Atlantis) (1999), [*Full Dark, No Stars*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Dark,_No_Stars) (2010), and [*If It Bleeds*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_It_Bleeds) (2020)
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw is 3 hours on audiobook. I don’t know what that translates to in number of pages.