Recs if you like We Need to Do Something...

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.

Tight spaces. Heavy air. The creeping realization that escape may not be possible. These are stories designed to make you feel trapped.

Recs welcome!

general content warning: vampires, death/murder, cannibalism, gore, ecological horror. Basically if there are lesbians and it's scary, it will be here. Some books are still on my TBR.

Thrillers and horror books with a family setting. This list focuses on relationships between siblings, parent and child etc.

i am an odd gross sad silly girl, and maybe you are too

horror books under 250 pages

books that centre around the apocalypse or the potential for an event to become apocalyptic. may include some dystopian books, zombie stories, climate fiction, pandemic narratives, and natural disasters. the story may centre on a single place rather than the entire world. not all of these were perfect reads but they were still interesting. contains only books i've read

These books are for when the sirens go off... and the air gives you that thick, electric, oppressive feeling. Suffocating atmospheres. 🥵 Nature as an indifferent villain. You're trapped. No way out. 🫣 These are not your cozy rainy day reads. ⚠️ Read these while the sky turns green and the windows rattle. 💨 "The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time." — Zora Neale Hurston

Short and engaging Horror reads around 200 pages or less that you can finish in one sitting.

It's FALL!!!! Which means spoooooooky book time!

List of horror books (mostly 2000-2023) compiled by Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror.