I love a good horror book and I'm almost finished with my current book. So I was looking for suggestions that will scare me and make it hard for me to sleep. I'm open to all suggestions but I usually lean to more psychological horror.
The books I've finished that might help the suggestions:
The Hannibal series by Thomas Harris
The You series by Caroline Kepnes
The silent patient by Alex Michaelides
Imaginary friend by Stephen Chbosky
Fairy tail by Stephen King
The other Emily by Dean Koontz
by Thani__
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Is Fairy Tale scary? I’ve been wanting to read it but have been a bit hesitant because I’m taking a horror detox at the moment.
Anyway, in answer to your question, there aren’t a whole lot of books that have actually made it hard for me to sleep but one is Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca and another is The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. THGWSWLS is horrifying because of the amount of descriptive detail LaRocca put into it and how it feels very real in that “early 2000’s chatroom” sense. The Exorcist is scary to me because I am very Christian, so the idea of demons scares me to no end. I recently listened to the audiobook for The Haunting of Ashburn House, and that had me keeping my eyes open while shampooing my hair because I was so nervous, so that’s another one to look into.
I don’t know if any of these books are up your alley or not, but hopefully this helps!
I was having trouble sleeping for weeks and then realized reading a few pages from Timothy Snyder’s *Bloodlands* might have something to do with it, but I don’t think that’s the kind of horror you’re looking for
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe, if you can plow through the sometimes overwrought writing style. I say this because I was staying by myself in a house that didn’t belong to me, years ago, and I found it on the shelf and read the whole thing (I didn’t have much else to do) and then didn’t sleep that night. But really, many things by Poe will do that to you.