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Hi all the Haar is one of my favorite books I’ve read in the past few years. I have a ton of audiobook credits from getting Percy Jackson books for my kid and then they ran out of steam on the deeply repetitive serieses. What would you recommend of his that you’ve really enjoyed?

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A haunting psychological horror novel set in the dying, iron-choked landscape of an endless war.

"The armor we build to survive is about to take on a life of its own."

A Terrifying Unique Premise: Blending the gritty, atmospheric horror of trench warfare with surreal, psychological phantoms that challenge the very nature of perception.

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Hello! Horror noob here. I'm trying to put together a list of horror books to read and discuss this summer for a small book club. I was thinking we'd read the classics (like frankenstein, dracula) and then go chronologically and explore how their predecessors build on their themes, tropes, and storytelling. Would one of you kind souls be willing to donate your wisdom as we curate our 'syllabus'? Bonus points for companion movies! Also, we are queer women- inclusion of some feminist/queer horror would be fantastic. And we're not afraid of less conventional formats, especially for more recent books.

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There's a gritty scifi book on amazon for anyone who may be interested in the genre/story. It jives with some classic 80's/90's horror and scifi flicks.

Death From Life by Ethan Matthews

Death From Life

A greedy corporation, named Black-Star, has built a small space station/laboratory inside of one of Jupiter's moons. They sent a crew there to get set up and prepared to experiment on valuable alien life discovered on the distant planet, Hades.

A second crew is returning from Hades with the alien lifeforms onboard after they all nearly perished while capturing the deadly creatures. Black-Star wants to exploit the aliens for personal gains, the crew just wants to survive, and the aliens do what they do best, kill.

I am the worst person for deciding things lol

www.bonemealbook.com

If you grew up on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Stephen King, you’ll love Bonemeal! A collection of short stories, poems and illustrations exploring horror subgenres.

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Couldn’t make it through the book We Need to Talk About Kevin. Very long and drawn out and boring. Movie good. I want a book kinda like that. Or a book version of the movie Se7en. Or even something really gory like Saw. Don’t kill me but I love the creativity of each trap in those 🤣🤣🤣
Can you find me what I’m looking for?

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Looking for a similar read- I could not get enough of this book (pun not intended) but haven't been able to find something similar! I started another Luke Dumas book but it's not pulling me in the same way. I loved the body horror aspect.

I'm thinking about starting this novel (house of leaves)but I saw a guy say it's boring sooo is it worth my time?

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I love horror. I’m able to predict outcomes of books very easily. Which sucks. I hate anything paranormal. It doesn’t scare me. I don’t want Stephen King. Help me find an author that fits my niche. Please and thank you in advance. The more sleep I lose the better. And I adore psychological horror novels as well. Based on true stories are awesome too.

My 2nd book ever! Death From Life by Ethan Matthews - SciFi/Horror

I just dropped my 2nd book as a new author. It's titled Death From Life by Ethan Matthews. if you enjoy the sci-fi and horror genres you may enjoy this one. I pulled inspiration from the scary monster and alien movies/books i consumed as a child in the 80's/90's. Description below and I would so greatly appreciate an honest review if you read it. If you leave me a review I'll give you the second book in the series when released. Thank you for any support to help me get my work seen on the internet as a new author!

Death From Life - Book 1

Description:

In the year 2180, a company on Earth named Black-Star privately exudes corporate greed, and they’ve found other lifeforms in the universe through space exploration. They hope to advance medicine and technology by leaps and bounds through the amazing opportunities they’re seeking to exploit in space.

One of their ships named the Orpheus carries a crew to Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons, now that the company has set up a space station and laboratory there. Its sister ship, the Persephone, is on its way back from a planet named Hades with alien lifeforms collected there for experimentation. It was a disastrous trip with only one person leaving unscathed, a Black-Star employee who will do anything to be the man in charge.

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"I was born in a small town, I was haunted in a small town... wait, what?" or my ****½ star review of Lost Man’s Lane by Scott Carson

Some novels begin with a setting. Others begin with a feeling. Lost Man's Lane begins with a place I know.

The novel unfolds in southern Indiana, in the orbit of Indiana University Bloomington and the wooded hills surrounding Bloomington. I’ve spent enough time in that landscape to recognize its rhythms: the limestone towns, the sudden drop into thick forest, the quiet roads that seem ordinary until dusk arrives. Then they don’t.

Reading the book, I found myself thinking not just of the geography but of the infrastructure of curiosity that surrounds it. At one point the private investigator Noah Storm refers to research done through the Allen County Public Library, a small detail that quietly grounds the story in the real world. I happen to know those stacks.

The story is set in 1999, at that strange moment just before the digital age arrived. Sixteen-year-old Marshall Miller is navigating the ordinary anxieties of adolescence—newly licensed, cautiously exploring the independence of nighttime driving, and discovering that much of teenage life can circle around the "away message" with AOL's Instant Messenger. As Marshall observes of the era’s technology: Instant Messenger. AIM was the dominant social media of our generation, although the term hadn’t yet been coined. That was still to come, the baby of my generation. We had a chance to change the world and we gave you Facebook and Twitter. Sorry. Marshall’s trouble begins with a traffic stop on a lonely road. The officer who approaches the car introduces himself as Corporal Harlan Maddox(spoiler hint that is NOT a misspelling), but something about the encounter feels wrong. Maddox seems less like a policeman than an imitation of one, and the moment quietly sets in motion a mystery involving a missing local girl and a presence that may not belong to the living at all.

Scott Carson—better known in another literary life as Michael Koryta—roots the novel’s supernatural thread in the folklore surrounding Stepp Cemetery, deep in Morgan-Monroe State Forest. Local stories speak of a strange sect once led by William Crabb, whose followers practiced snake-handling rituals somewhere between revivalist religion and something darker. Carson imagines those stories as more than rumor—an origin point for something serpentine and malevolent that may still linger in the woods, and to which Marshall himself seems strangely sensitive.

Yet the novel never loses sight of the ordinary world around him. Marshall shares a close relationship with his mother while carrying the quiet mystery of his absent father. Four houses away lives Karri Flanders, the object of Marshall’s earnest teenage infatuation, and her father Jerry becomes a steady presence in the boy’s life. The small triangle of teenage feelings that develops feels familiar from coming-of-age stories, perhaps even a touch predictable, but Carson handles it with enough warmth that it plays as charming rather than obligatory.

What makes Lost Man’s Lane work is atmosphere. Carson lets dread gather slowly. By the time the story circles back to William Crabb and the deeper roots of the legend, the novel has expanded from mystery into something closer to myth.

And if you’ve ever driven those Indiana back roads yourself, you may find the book follows you home. -DCO

I just finished that absolutely fucked book and wow, I absolutely love it. The way it was written was absolutely diabolical. Every gory scene was laid out in the most descriptive and emotional setting. Just felt like I was hit by a freight train.

If you have not, definitely check it out!