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Horror Recommendations? (literature.cafe)

Hello! In the spirit of Halloween, I wanted to see if anyone had some recommendations for good horror books?!

Open to new and classic books. I've read quite a bit of Stephen King already. Some classics like Dracula, Turn of the Screw, Shirley Jackson books, etc. Exorcist is probably the scariest book I've read.

What else should I try?

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[-] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2 points 3 days ago

A bit late to the party but I have a handful that might work.

For spooky and eerie vibes, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. (Turned into a movie that really doesn't capture the feeling.) Just a great sense of creepy dread throughout. I read it alone in a large house in the dark and loved feeling the hair on the back of my neck rise.

Real life horror, The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. About Ebola, freaking terrifying gross and real.

And if you're looking for classics, he's a bad person but a solid gothic writer, HP Lovecraft. Not all the stories work but a lot are pretty good at evoking dread. Almost any of his collections of short stories works!

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