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Recommend me your favorite horror (lemmy.world)

submitted 20 hours ago by boopickle1310@lemmy.world to c/books@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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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Right now it's reality. Oh, you said favorite horror.

How about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King? Underrated in my opinion.

[–] boopickle1310@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Exactly. I need fake horror to distract from real life horror, if you get what I mean