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I'm very tired of reading bad books and disappointing books. For example I just picked one up that was like "ooh spooky seance and then people start dying" except the seance didn't even start until more than half way through the book, and there was flashbacks later on, so most of the book was just "wow I miss my husband"
SO! I would like scary books. Spooky things. Creepy eerie freaky ghosts and demons shit. Gory murder or whatever is also good.
Extra points if it isn't "just a dream" or "just a guy in the woods, not actually a monster."
EXTRA extra points if it isn't "a depressed cop struggling with their marriage is investigating the case"
No such thing as too many suggestions, lay it on me. My library has shit selection so I need all I can get.
Book I liked as an example: "Last Days" by Adam Nevil; and "The September House" by Carissa Orlando (a little light hearted by not disappointing)
If you have no horrorscary book knowledge, what's the book you read that made you "YEEES this is a goooood book this is book."
Mine: "Vicious" by V.E. Schwab
nintendolunchbox
Well my recommendations are sci Fi. Seveneves. The moon explodes and humanity has to figure out how to live in orbit. You have a few weeks until Project Hail Mary comes out in theaters to read the book. Oh. How about a post apocalypse book Dies the Fire. How would humans live without combustion such as engines or firearms.
fyaconiello
Meddling kids
Lurker55684
Anything written by Rush Limbaugh
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
Gotcha fam!
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
Heartwrenching tale of native american shapeshifters. Brutal and unique.
Canigetbannedagain2
"Advanced quantum mechanics"...
WhoIsFlabbergasted
For horror, I enjoyed The Ruins. Never watched the movie that was based on it, so I think that helps
DuineSgith
God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe
evilspock
Go read The Shining again.
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
Really good series (noir style) about communities of vampires living in New York. Well written and fast paced.
WhoIsFlabbergasted
For bizarre thriller mystery, the Pendergast novels by Preston and Child are fun. The first in the series is Relic
TheShamkat
everything from Stephen King/Richard Bachmann ans maybe the mayfair witches?
XIITwelveXII
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, and about halfway through throw on the album Haunted by Poe.
MostAwesomeDan
I'm currently...attempting...to read(?) this right now. It's quite something!
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
A well written homage to slasher films, a very fun read by one of the best modern horror writers.
cjpoet
The Stand...Steven king
BackPackJohniee
nonnewtonianjuice
Full Dark, No Stars was delightfully horrific.
RetrogradeLlama
"The Art of the Deal" is pretty fooking scary.
DonkeyGoat
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TheMoonBnuuy
I literally can't tell the difference between Goosebumps and any other horror series, at least when it comes to actually being scary.
ChareAndFlaff
The Militia House by John Milas (haunted soviet barracks in 2010 Afghanistan from the pov of an American soldier. written by a guy who actually served at the time. creepy AF)
HumanFromPlanetEarth
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
Modern take on Cthulhu mythos with an excellent twist on the genre. Creepy, creepy visuals.
CookieMonstersCrumbs
77 Shadow Street Dean Koontz
sometimesarobot
Ooooh I read that one! That was a good one, especially these days
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
Super cool vampire book, somewhat reminiscent of the movie Near Dark but far more feral.
DinosaursCameFromSpace
Brian Lumley - Nexroscope. A bit dated but good as old fashioned pulp horror
Stringgeek
Joe Hill. He's Steven King's kid and the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
Post apocalyptic story about a virus that turns humans with too much testosterone into carnivorous zombie like feral. Story is about several trans women trying to survive in a world that fears them as an existential threat. -VERY violent.
RUFingKiddingMe
I LOVE post-apocalyptic, zombie (or infected), survival, stories. I have a library of literally hundreds! If this is your thing then let me know and I'll send you over some suggestions. Side note: one of my favorite things about this genre is that many of the authors are 'new' and the first few books in the series are a bit clunky (but the premise and the characters are decent). It's cool to see the author grow and mature so that by book 5 they're amazing writers and I'm completely engaged.
sometimesarobot
Zombies aren't generally my thing, buuuut I'll take a couple recommendations. Scariest (like "I can't read this at night" scary) or some sort of Villain-is-the-protagonist type (or villain wins type), or maybe some kind of explicit gore shite. Preferably not.. too clunky. I can manage good story, bad writing, but when it's REALLY bad...
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
Story about a woman raised as a foundling by a pack of ghouls, really cool setting.
sometimesarobot
aight you've given me a bunch of books, most of which aren't at the library, but one I already have in my list, and I've added a couple by "wrong title same author" so since you seem to have opinions:
https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/bullitt/search/results?qu=book
Das my library's catalog if you want to search it (physical books only 'cause I can't do the other stuff)
I mean. If you want. /shrug
WellThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
Oh cool! Yah, I read A TON...and have done so my entire life. Name your genre and I will cheerfully chuck some nooks at you! Sorry I don't go in much for da spooky ghosty stuff, spiritual horror has never been my main. I like Creature Features, body horror, cosmic horror and the occasional murdery slasher type book more. -I will peruse and throw a few more your way. :)
largomatic
Haunted by Chuck Palanhiuk was fun.
sometimesarobot
Oh yeah, that's a fun one. Read that forever ago, but definitely wouldn't call it horror
largomatic
Yeah, although some of it was pretty horrifying (shooo-rook!), I agree with your assessment.
sometimesarobot
It's been a while since I read it so I dunno what shooo rook is referencing, but if it's the pool thing that apparently everyone else has issues with... /shrug
largomatic
Nah, it’s not that one.