Just found out a prequel to Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell will be publishing on March 29th. I’m so freaking pumped!! It’s called The Church Beneath the Roots and it will be on KU. Ahhhhhh!!!

... why didn't he just sleep outside during the daytime on a picnic blanket or something, instead of losing his mind from sleep deprivation? And stay awake at night with some solar lights inside?

I enjoyed the book otherwise.

This is my first time posting here, and I have to say that from what I’ve seen, this community is one of the nicest and most genuine on here! I’m a huge fan of psychological horror, and I recently got back into binge reading. Some of my favorites are:

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski PenPal, Dathan Auerbach Bad Man, Dathan Auerbach Stolen Tongues, Felix Blackwell

among a few others, but you get the gist. I just started Intercepts by T.J. Payne, but I’m not sure what to read once I finish this one. Thanks, ya'll, in advance!

Looking for some recommendations on true page turners. I really like supernatural but open to anything really, except SA, over the top violence etc.

In the past few weeks I've read horrors/thrillers The Old Religion, The Chill, Hidden Pictures and Last Days (Adam Neville). The latter felt like too much a slow burn.

Any recommendations for stories set in the early years of America’s founding (setting can be in the North or South continent, I’m not picky). Specifically interested in the 1490s-1600s time range, ideally not Salem witch trials related, though, I’m certainly not anti folk/witch horror.

Thank you in advance!

I love ghost/demon movies, especially The Conjuring series. I prefer more straightforward ghost stories, too, not ones where like. The Ghost Is A Metaphor For Your Unresolved Trauma, lol. I just want a genuinely creepy, unsettling ghost story.

No Stephen King, please; I don’t care for his writing style or his ideas. (No offense intended to any SK fans.)

Bonus points for female writers, but I’m not too picky.

I like a "corrupt rich people" + "amoral heroine" vibe, similar to Killing Eve as well, perhaps with the "horror" turned up--maybe a revenge story, haunted item she steals, marries the wrong man, something like that.

I'll be honest...a lot of the current recommended horror has left me underwhelmed (Edenville DNF, Bunny was unique and highly readable but undercooked, TOGI was absolutely terrific in the first half, lost me in the second, Our Wives Under the Sea seemed to spin its wheels and not get going, The Deep by Alma Katsu was very pretty but didn't pack much of a punch) but I loved "The Writing Retreat" by Julia Bartz (more thriller than straight horror), The Sanitarium. I'm an old school Stephen King fan, have been reading him since the early 90s (!! I'm An Old) and I like Dan Simmons as well.

I'd actually put "Bath Haus" by P.J. Vernon and "Yes, Daddy" by Jonathan Parks-Ramage in this category too.

Thanks :)

Man this is the weirdest episode of New Girl ever.

I basically just need to vent but why on earth everyone wet themselves in horror novels when something horrible happens? Like, wouldn't that be the last thing you would do? You have to actively "push" the urine out from yourself, it doesn't just gush out from you because your heart just skipped a beat.

I don't know anyone who has been so scared that this would happen nor have I heard of such occasion, but correct me if I'm wrong. If it's a phenomena I'm unaware of it's still overused and a cheap way to portrait overwhelming fear.

I first picked this trend from King's novels, which I've read a bunch, but the same happened in Wasp Factory, HEX and also in The Library at Mount Char, which are my most recent reads. Heck, I bought four books and only House of Leaves didn't have someone pee himself, lol.

Roar.

hey y'all. basically i want a novel that centers around a group of paramilitary operatives fighting monsters. Think The BSAA from Resident Evil or the SG1 Team from Stargate (but more urban fantasy) books i have read that are similar is the monster hunter international novels. i saw some stuff saying that joe ledger might be worth while. any other recs welcome

I wonder if there's any horror books about Roadside Attractions along Route 66 or other relics of Forgotten Americana?

The book seemed so deliberate in portraying everything in a way that could be reasonably explained, and yet I see reviews calling it occult or ghostly. If I recall correctly, Merry herself gives multiple methods in which the “hauntings” could have occurred; nor is her penchant for horror media an indicator that she seriously believes Marjorie was possessed. Even the more “out there” incidents have non-paranormal (if still bizarre) explanations.

To me, “Head Full of Ghosts” reads almost entirely as a book about child exploitation, and not at all one of true demonic possession: Marjorie was extremely mentally unwell (probably suffering from some form of psychosis), and was exploited by her church and corrupt reality TV. Even her parents used her for money— sure, they may have seen it to be in Marjorie and Merry’s benefit, but that’s still essentially what took place.

Either way, I really enjoyed this book, and I love hearing other’s thoughts on it. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Recently I have reignited my passion for reading and found that horror literature, more specifically haunted house/ghost horror, is my favorite. I have been getting increasingly frustrated because many times when I find a book that seems to fit my ideal sub genre, I read the book to find that the biggest “spook” of the story revolves around a woman being penetrated in some perverted way. To name a few examples, a young woman masturbating, a woman penetrating herself with a cross or some other weird object, hyper sexualization, anal penetration, mutilation of breasts, and most recently a statue of Jesus Christ on the cross with a boner falling off the wall and penetrating a woman to death (I wish I was kidding, if you know you know). Seriously , what is wrong with these authors? Do I need to buy only women’s books to get non sexual horror? Jeez.

Anyways, if anyone has a recommendation for haunted house/ghost horror, I’d love to hear it. Feel free to drop the most ridiculous thing that you’ve read about a female character if you like

As a cross genre reader I've found the quality of prose in SF and Fantasy to be in sharp decline over the past many years. Fortunately Horror still offers interesting tales written beautifully. In recent years I've been very moved by the prose of Nathan Ballingrud, Christopher Buehlman, Laird Barron, Catriona Ward, Bora Chung and John Langan, in particular. Can anybody recommend anything similarly well written to the authors I mentioned? Anybody read Otessa Moshfegh?

Like an evil priest, killing child, demon nurse, I hope you get the gist

Hi, i’m looking for some fiction that is either set during a nuclear war/attack/holocaust, or in the aftermath of one.

Ideally I’d like something that’s quite heavy on the realism - something along the lines of Threads. That said, I’ll give things that aren’t as realistic a go, as long as they aren’t all-out fantasy or Lovecraftian.

I struggle a lot with ADHD, and find reading really difficult, but I love stories, so I’m ideally looking for something that’s either available as an audiobook, an audio-fiction (e.g. podcast etc.) or a short story.

I haven’t read The Road yet, but I have bought it and intend to, so no need to suggest that one. Thank you! 🙂

Just read "Kore" by John Langan in "Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies". It is only six pages long, but packs a wallop. I read it twice and it really got under my skin. Curious on what others think.

Remains by Andrew Cull, it seems right up my street horror-wise but unfortunately I can’t cope with child death very well. Fine with it being mentioned/happening but this goes a bit too deep into it for me.

I’ve googled for spoilers, synopsis or the ending and can’t find anything except reviews.

One GR review says “just know that once the truth is revealed it’s HORRIBLE, I mean, it’s one of the absolute worst things a human can experience”.

What’s revealed? I don’t wanna torture myself with all the child death to find out! Thanks haha

This audiobook was wiped from every, did anyone save it? I would be so grateful for a copy!

What do you think is a type of story or setting in the genre that you want more of? Personally, I wish we had more polar/arctic horror like The Terror, Dark Matter and At the Mountains of Madness. Or really, anything where a group of characters are stuck in a remote area and there’s something supernatural going on. Can’t get enough of those kinds of stories.

Hello,

I am looking for a collection of short horror stories to read? Completely open to ideas and style of horror ie. one author, a collection, old, new. I think I'd be more interested in new however, just as I have read a lot of older works that are often included in collections.

I've read and enjoyed Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, M.R James.

Thank you!

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UPDATE: Wow thank you for all the recommendations, a lot to get through!

Of the last three books I've read (which I will not name), two had a full cast of characters that all lived at the end. Sure, they might be traumatised and have suffered horrible bodily harm, but they all lived! It's a nice change to some kill-em-all style books.

Edit: the books are >!Where He Can't Find You and From Below, both by Darcy Coates!<

I read Roots and All by Brian Hodge yesterday. I really liked the vibe of the story but was kind of disappointed by the fact the plot had so many cut offs. Seems like Hodge wanted to make the story shorter. Anyway, am here to ask for book recs that have similar vibe and setting. Many thanks.

I've loved Wyndham for a long time, but had mostly stuck with his mainstream stuff like Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids and The Kraken Wakes.

Saw someone around here talking about Trouble With Lichen about a month ago and decided to branch out and pick it up, and I genuinely couldn't put it down. Wyndham was such a GOAT in the dystopian genre and really should be better known than he is.

This is about a pair of researchers who both (separately) discover a medicine that prolongs human life about fivefold, so people can live 300+ years old. Problem is that it's derived from a super rare kind of lichen in China so supply is hard limited.

They disagree with each other about whether it should be made public, and after the secret is kept for some time then things begin to spiral out of control following the adage "loose lips sink ships".

Loved it, highly recommend.

So this library is supposed to contain every possible arrangement of letters in a 410 page book but in what language? Is it English letters? Somewhere in the book when soren falls in the abyss for a long time and stops to meet new groups of people they ask him if his group of people speak english too and he confirms so there are people there with other languages how are they suppose to understand English if all these books are written in English?

Can anyone tell me the name of this Matheson story? : a man begins to feel that his life is being edited as he hurtles through his life popping up at significant lifetime moments. The story ends on his death bed, where the words "THE END" rise in front of his face backwards.

Just finished this book and I gotta say I really enjoyed it. I liked the first book, the way the characters are revealed to be much sisters than they appear. This author really knows how to make a character so unlikeable but you still want to know what happens at the end of their story, I thought this book was gonna end a different way, but the actual ending was much much darker, I’m interested to see if he writes another sequel, but if you’re looking for a body horror novel that makes you cringe and want to shower at the end of the book, I’d say this is definitely the book duet for you. If you’re new to horror novels though, maybe skip this one it definitely leaves a mark.

Any books similar to fantastic land? Specifically stuff that falls into the “situational horror”, if that makes sense? I liked how the horror just comes from a wild situation and people acting in response to that, and am wondering if there’s other stuff similar to that!

Hello ladies and gentleman,

I'm looking to read more grounded (non-supernatural) thriller novels mainly about humans encountering feral people either in national parks, mountains or caves resulting a life/death situations

I'm interested in this genre

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Are there any good books that take place in a school? Supernatural haunting type would be preferred but nay kind of horror would work. I went to a private catholic high-school that was a boarding school until the year that I started there. I was hoping to find something horror in a similar setting.