Recommend a good horror (or horrifying / disturbing) book

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Any type of horror or horrifying fiction welcomed. Supranational horror (haunted houses, vampires, zombies etc), psychological horror, fantasy / sci-fi horror, crime / real life horror - you know the sort of thing.

Have read loads of Stephen King but think ‘The Long Walk’ is one of his best (maybe not horror but definitely disturbing). House of Leaves creeped me out too.I’ve read some horrifying dystopian fiction too (e.g. The Road). Loved ‘Let the Right One In’ (vampires). So I’ve got broad tastes ...

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Dd Read it at 15 and had to turn her mirrors round at night! Bloody brilliant creepy book

Ooh haven't read that. on my list

I love The Long Walk, definitely disturbing. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt is very scary.

Red Dragon.

Read it long before it was made in to a film and really spooked me.

Because it could happen.

Naomis Room or anything else by Jonathan Aycliffe. I listened to them on audiobook and freaked myself out totally.

Monster Love. www.amazon.co.uk/Monster-Love-Carol-Topolski/dp/014103338X?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Out
www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Vintage-Classics-Japanese-Classic/dp/1784875406/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=out+book+japanese&sprefix=out+book&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1615665496&sr=8-1

Just ordered Dark Matter because of this thread. Will tie in nicely after just finishing The Terror so thanks.

The Girl With All The Gifts - M R Carey
The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
Touch - Claire North
The Stone Man - Luke Smitherd

Oh Out is fantastic!!! Just a brilliant brilliant thriller

Geek Love is not exactly a thriller but certainly disturbing and well worth a read.

I preferred thin air by Michelle paver.

Also Paul tremblay head full of ghosts

north water Ian macquire,

his bloody project graham mcrae

I loved out too. Although my husband hated it!

Oh oh I forgot this one

The vegetarian Han Kang? (Sp)

FourteenthDoctor I really liked Thin Air too, but Dark Matter just had the edge foe me, I was panicking towards the end of the book!

No spoilers for any posters but in Thin Air for me the real horror was the actions of men, rather than the 'monster'.

OMG!!! I got them round the wrong way! Dark matter is better sorry 🤦🏻‍♀️

Did anyone used to read the fog, the dark, the rats etc by James Herbert?

Loved them back in the day!

Ooh books of blood by Clive barker

I loved James Herbert, loved watching Night Reed!

Op, not outright horror but a goid sense of creeping unease in Andrew Hurley'books, The Loney, Devil's Day

David Mitchell Slade House is a new take on Haunted House...

Fourteenth I’ve just finished The Rats having last read it years ago! thoroughly enjoyed it this time too - Might try the Fog next.

Oh they’re so good! Enjoy!

Oh some great ideas on here. I've read the Girls with all the Gifts -it's excellent. Ditto 'his bloody project'

I still get het up thinking about Dark Matter and I read it ten years ago.

Pine by Francine Toon disturbed me too actually.

Naomi's Room by Denis MacEoin