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    Looking for a horror novel that’s too suspenseful to put down. The books I read either tend to lose their steam halfway through or aren’t very scary. The best horror book I’ve read recently was The Terror by Dan Simmons, although there were definitely slow parts and I think I would have enjoyed it more if it was 25% shorter in length. Here’s a list of some of the books I’ve read in past couple years and how I’ve rated them.

    **Enjoyed but not scary enough:**
    Dark Matter by Blake Crouch,
    Wool by Hugh Howey,
    Bunny by Mona Awad,
    Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin,
    The Library at Mt. Char by Scott Hawkins,
    Piranesi by Susanna Clarke,
    The entire Witcher series,
    Starfish by Peter Watts

    **Meh:**
    Misery by Stephen King,
    House of Leaves by Danielewski,
    The Vegetarian by Han King,
    Earthlings by Sayaka Murata,
    Bird Box by Josh Malerman,
    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn,
    14 by Peter Cline,
    I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison,
    The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    **DNF and/or hated:**
    Verity by Colleen Hoover,
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro,
    Everything by Cormac McCarthy,
    The Martian by Andy Weir,
    Guts by Chuck Palahniuk,
    The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks,
    The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood,
    We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

    Thanks in advance!

    by ethereal_aerith

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