My experience in the horror genre have been pretty limited.
I think I have read IT , Carrie and The Shining as an adult and though some part of it did hook me into some semblance of horror. I have never felt fear, horror the way I feel watching a movie from books.
The closest I have ever been to feeling extreme scared of reading the next page but still hooked to the story was a book named Shivers which I read as a kid and remember being super scared.
Looking forward to your suggestion ( would prefer proper horror over dystopian).
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The Bird Box
Pet Sematery is a pretty solid bleak King classic…some argue it’s his darkest. I really enjoyed it.
The Books of Blood collections by Clive Barker are excellent. A little too visceral for me at times, but he has a good style of writing that I like.