Recs if you like The Children of Red Peak...

sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.

don't you want to become a cult leader? there's something especially unsettling about one person who can effectively manipulate an entire group of people. even more so when it's something that could happen to any one of us. tread carefully as you explore these reads, they may just adopt you into their 'family' 🧟

fiction works featuring deals, agreements, trades, and contracts with the Devil (capital D), a spirit, or some demonic entity

Books where cults are a big part of the story. Mostly fictional horror books 🤡

Come to the cult side, we have cookies (and trauma).

Horror books with messed up families

As a survivor of a dark cult in my childhood, I have gravitated toward cult books all my life. While I appreciate nonfiction that shows how cults operate and such, what really helped me most were the stories. The real survivor’s accounts, as well as fiction written about cults and secret societies. Stories saved my life and helped me heal.

This list is for fiction and memoir stories that feature cults, secret societies, and/or manipulative leaders.