I don't mean horror novels with gore or cheap thrills. I mean the kind of book that made you uneasy in your own home. That creeping dread when you look at a dark hallway or hear a floor creak after reading.
Something atmospheric, psychological, maybe even existential. The kind of fear that sticks around after you close the book.
What's the one book that genuinely got under your skin?
by gilko86
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I live on the east coast about 2 hours from DC.
[Nuclear War: A Scenario](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182733784-nuclear-war?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=nk5oAJG6UN&rank=1) did it for me. And this weekends news did nothing to assuage my feelings…
Pretty much all of Chuck Wendig’s books do that to me. So creepy in a psych way, makes you think and then wish you hadn’t.
Black River Orchard was the last one I read, but I’ve heard good things about Staircase in the Woods.
Truman Capote – In Cold Blood