swap_horiz Cunning Folk Alternatives

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The Only Good Indians

The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by American author Stephen Graham Jones, notable for blending Indigenous cu...

Native American 2020S Folk Horror Stephen Graham Jones

8.6 Great

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The Last House on Needless Street

A 2021 psychological horror novel by British author Catriona Ward that won both the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Ja...

Psychological Unreliable Narrator 2020S Catriona Ward

8.5 Great

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Mexican Gothic

Mexican Gothic is a 2020 horror novel by Mexican-Canadian author Silvia Moreno-Garcia, notable for becoming a bestseller...

Gothic 2020S Silvia Moreno Garcia 1950S Mexico

8.4 Great

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Harvest Home

Thomas Tryon's 1973 novel follows a New York family who relocate to an idyllic New England village concealing violent pa...

1970S Rural Folk Horror Thomas Tryon

8.3 Great

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My Heart Is a Chainsaw

My Heart Is a Chainsaw is a 2021 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones, notable for winning the Bram Stoker Award and its...

Slasher 2020S Meta Horror Stephen Graham Jones

8.2 Great

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The House Next Door

Anne Rivers Siddons' 1978 novel portrays a stylish new house in suburban Atlanta that drives each successive family occu...

Psychological 1970S Suburban Haunted House

8.0 Great

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Come with Me

Ronald Malfi's 2021 novel follows a grieving widower who discovers his wife was secretly tracking a serial killer, pulli...

Ghost Grief Serial Killer 2020S

8.0 Great

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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is a 2020 horror novel by Grady Hendrix, notable for depicting housew...

Vampire Suburban 2020S Female Friendship

7.8 Good

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Don't Fear the Reaper

Don't Fear the Reaper is a 2022 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones, notable as the second book in the Indian Lake Tril...

Small Town Sequel Slasher 2020S

7.8 Good

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Lone Women

Lone Women is a 2023 historical horror novel by Victor LaValle, notable for its premise of a woman hiding a terrifying s...

Supernatural Isolation 2020S Victor Lavalle

7.7 Good

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No One Gets Out Alive

A 2014 horror novel by Adam Nevill about a vulnerable young woman who becomes trapped in a sinister Birmingham boarding...

Supernatural Exploitation 2010S Haunted House

7.5 Good

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Looking Glass Sound

Looking Glass Sound is a 2023 psychological horror novel by Catriona Ward, notable for its meta-fictional narrative abou...

Psychological 2020S Catriona Ward Literary Horror

7.5 Good

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The Final Girl Support Group

The Final Girl Support Group is a 2021 horror novel by American author Grady Hendrix, notable for its metafictional take...

Slasher 2020S Meta Horror Survivors

7.5 Good

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How to Sell a Haunted House

How to Sell a Haunted House is a 2022 horror novel by Grady Hendrix, notable for its blend of family drama and supernatu...

Family 2020S Haunted House Puppets

7.5 Good

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Survivor Song

Survivor Song is a 2020 horror novel by American author Paul Tremblay, notable for its rapid pacing and terrifying depic...

Survival Pandemic 2020S Rabies

7.5 Good

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The Hungry Moon

Ramsey Campbell's 1986 novel depicts a small English moorland town whose ancient imprisoned evil is accidentally release...

1980S Pagan Folk Horror Ramsey Campbell

7.5 Good

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Black Mouth

Ronald Malfi's 2022 novel revisits a group of childhood friends who shared a disturbing encounter with a sinister magici...

Supernatural 2020S Magician Ronald Malfi

7.5 Good

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Fairy Tale

Stephen King's 2022 novel in which a teenage boy inherits a shed containing a portal to a dark fairy-tale world from his...

Epic Dark Fantasy 2020S Stephen King

7.4 Good

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The Reddening

A 2019 horror novel by Adam Nevill set on the Devon coast of England, where two characters independently uncover an anci...

Rural 2010S Pagan Folk Horror

7.3 Good

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House of Small Shadows

A 2013 horror novel by Adam Nevill about an antiques cataloguer invited to a reclusive taxidermist's English country est...

Gothic 2010S Folk Horror Dolls

7.2 Good