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Recommend me your favorite horror (lemmy.world)
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Without going into specifics so the creature/entity/plot is given, I'm looking for horror that is keep-you-up-at-night level. A good wendigo or poltergeist or even disease epidemic book would be greatly appreciated.

I loved books like Pet Sematary, the Troop, The Quiet Boy (short story), Contagion. I try to go into horror blind so I am fully unaware of what to expect, so I've read a lot of duds lately. Psychological horror is ok, if it's unpredictable/not just "normal person gaslit into thinking they're crazy" type trope.

The only horror I was unable to finish was Tender is the Flesh. My kudos to you if you got through that one.

Thank you all for your advice

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[โ€“] mantra@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Clive Barker. The Books of Blood are short stories and lean harder into straight up horror than his novels, which blend a little into dark/urban fantasy stuff. Still great, but depends on if you like that. Obviously Hellraiser is an awesome book, but hard to go in blind to that one. Quick read, though.

[โ€“] boopickle1310@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for this. Sometimes short stories leave more to the imagination and tend to scare more than something that's overly explained, if that makes sense? Can't wait to get these at the library