Recs if you like Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting...

Books written in unconventional and experimental styles and formatting.

I love a spooky lighthouse. Lighthouse-related horror, thriller and generally dark fiction. Especially good to read by a window during a storm.

analogue horror, vhs, cult films, occult objects, static, exploitation, found footage, snuff

"ergodic literature is a mode of textual organization in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text, beyond ordinary eye movement or turning pages." - espen j. aarseth

books with unique formatting, books you can play like a game, books you need to take apart and put back together again, stories-within-stories, books containing found documents and ephemera, etc.

Books mentioned in ToastyGoobus/Gab Smolders book talk videos in 2026

The wettest horror in town — watery graves, haunted dams, spooky shipwrecks, black oceans that exist beyond the limits of man — this list has got it all.

all books summerween: spooky, scary, and some romance all with the perfect ambiance and atmosphere