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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by ashenone@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.ml

My partner and I are doing some traveling and dispersed camping in some fairly remote locations. We listen to audiobooks quit a bit and on one of our legs we listened to The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher and it was so perfectly creepy and we want more of it. The combination of the wooded setting, and psychological type horror that was more creepy than graphic really made the week after listening to it kinda terrifying. We've read Pet Sematary previously and it also really hit the right notes and would have been a great read deep in the trees.

We read Salems Lot and What Moves the Dead and while we enjoyed them, they did not hit the same spot. Vampires aren't creepy in the right way and neither was What Moves the Dead. Horror isn't our normal genre and we don't know where to go from here. We'd really appreciate some some reccomendations

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[-] jsv@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 40 minutes ago

It’s a bit strange not to see Arthur Machen mentioned. It might be a silly question, but have you read “The White People”? It’s what “The Twisted One” builds upon. Cotgrave, Ambrose, The Green Book – all that comes straight from Machen’s story. I do not know, if you are going to like it, it’s being written more than a century ago... but if you do, Machen has more like this.

[-] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

this is my favorite Lovecraft piece. phenomenonal concept, and I think it was when he was getting to transition away from commercial magazine writing so the structure was getting better than in previous stories.

I know this is a book community but it's worth mentioning this also had the only movie adaptations I stand by

[-] Fondots@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure if these are quite the same sort of thing you're looking for, I haven't read any of the examples you provided to compare, but two podcasts that are personal horror favorites of mine and kind of feel like they might sort of rub up against what you're looking for- Old Gods of Appalachia, and Alice Isn't Dead

[-] KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

You are the first person I've seen in the wild to recommend OGoA. This makes me so happy!! I stumbled upon them via Kickstarter when they did their TTRPG and found out the writers are from 2 towns where I have also lived.

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[-] unknown@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Seconding The Silt Verses! It's such a good story and beautifully told.

[-] ragica@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

"The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones. Watch out for deer. You never know.

[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I don't like when I'm hiking and they stare me down as I walk by. I'll add this to my list thanks

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago
  • The Indian Lake trilogy is slasher series set in remote Idaho
  • Beware the Woman is a claustrophobic thriller set in a cabin in rural Michigan
  • Mister Magic is a modern retelling of IT (loosely) set mostly in the basement of an abandoned house
  • The Terror (Dan Simmons) is about a supernatural entity assailing a group of marooned sailors in northern Canada. Based on a real event and later adapted into a pretty good TV series
[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you these all sound fantastic!

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