Recs if you like The Taiga Syndrome...

Horror books with a page count of 200 pages or less.

Before we started defining novellas by word count, they were defined as being any book less than 200 pages. Source: my Analysis of Short Stories & Literature professor in community college. I loved that class. But he loved James Joyce. So, ymmv, I guess.

Quick speculative fiction reads (quick, like under 40,000 words).

detectives, missing girls, dark lakes, inhuman mysteries

Books that have won the Shirley Jackson Award for outstanding achievement in the literature of horror, the dark fantastic, and psychological suspense.

Novel as travelogue, travelogue as novel