Recommend a "horror " for my book club please

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I'm a couple of decades out of practice at reading horror, any suggestions?

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand is fantastic, Hex by Thomas Olde hauvelt

If it's a general reading group, maybe something like Misery?

Or Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix for something a bit different - I really enjoy his books.

Or that one about the Arctic expedition that everyone always mentions on here, I loved it but totally blanking on the name and author 🤔

My book club read "Something Wicked this way comes" by Ray Bradbury, which we enjoyed.

Anything by Shirley Jackson or John Ajvide Lindqvist

Stephen King-Rose Madder.
Or one of his collections of short stories-
Full Dark, No Stars.

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. I imagine a lot of your group will have read it before though.

Thank you, I've seen Dark Matter suggested before a few times so will have a look at that.

I havent read any of these apart from Misery which I really liked. I used to read a lot of Stephen King but haven't read Rose Madder I don't think.

Intrigued about the Arctic expedition one now though!

Intrigued about the Arctic expedition one now though!

That's Dark Matter

Oh haha thanks!

@LubaLuca

Intrigued about the Arctic expedition one now though!

That's Dark Matter

It was, thank you!

Very creepy. I gave it to my mum after I read it, only to get a phone call from her late one dark, cold night, saying, "WHY DID YOU GIVE ME THIS BOOK?!" She lives alone and was too scared to go to sleep 😁

Early James Herbert is genuinely terrifying - The Rats, The Fog?

If you want a scary Stephen King, you can't beat The Shining - so much more frightening than the film, makes my heart race just thinking about it!

Something by Neil Spring. They probably won't have read it before and he has quite varied spooky books.