We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Do you have a preference for female or male protagonists, or does it not matter?
Are you okay with graphic violence? Do you have topics that are triggers for you?
Do you have a preferred type of horror – for instance, slasher/serial killer, supernatural, psychological?
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
‘Salems Lot and Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Dan Simmons – The Terror
Michelle Paver – Dark Matter, Wakenhyrst
Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
The Willows by Algernon blackwood.
Ray Bradbury has also written many stories
Sci-fi horror –
Annihilation
The Luminous Dead
Pet Semetary by Stephen King
I Remember You by Yrsa Siguroadottir
The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
r/horrorlit
The Troop by Nick Cutter
Headhunter by Micheal Slade
I just read The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. It predates Lovecraft, and I actually prefer it to any Lovecraft I’ve ever read!
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Cows by Matthew Stokoe
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Come Closer by Sara Gran
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Television by Edward Lee
In The Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami
Pet Semetary and The Shining by Stephen King
The Fisherman by John Langan. No other horror book has stuck with me more, I think about it constantly.
Not sure if it fits here- A Nightmare’s Point of View