Recs if you like At the Mountains of Madness...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

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.

does it matter if you’re shivering from fear or the cold?

Horrors and thrillers set in winter (21st December to 20th March, but I will count earlier December as winter too to make things easier) or in a really cold place that reminds of wintertime.

The list will contain both more known books that you've probably already been recommended and some that I've seen have had less attention, at least over here. I have not read them all, but I want to complete this list myself too during the next Christmasses.

Something compelling to make you think

Reading for when the nights get dark and lonely, and for when you feel the chill in your bones. Is there something out there in the long, dark night? Or are you just lost and hoping for something out there so you aren't so alone? Whatever it may be? ❄️ Inspired by other lists I've seen around and wanted to compile here

Who are we? Why are we here? What does it all mean? What do we leave behind? What's the point of it all? Read and find out.

A comprehensive list from Dr. Rebecca Marks (ig:culture_dumper).

Books featuring enclosed and dark settings. Claustrophobic much?

The foundations of the genre.

Looking at our universe through both a fictional and non-fictional lens; a blend of sci-fi, scientific theory, and even a few things in-between. For anyone looking to broaden their reading horizens and learn something along the way, this is all things space and aliens.

a collection of (ant)arctic horror/gothic books because i am fully obsessed with this genre

All books read by Tough Guy Book Club since 2014. The club that wants men to Read More, Talk More, and have more Friends.

There are things that do not just walk upon the world—they consume it. These are the giants that the stars puked out, the ones forged in the furnace of ancient suns or birthed from the black voids of the deep. They are not 'big' in the way a mountain is big; they are 'big' in the way an apocalypse is big. To look upon them is to realize our own insignificance. They are the gears of the universe, the shadows on the moon, and the architects of our extinction. We call them ... The Colossi.

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