Recs if you like Gone to See the River Man...

Kudzu climbs up the hills, katydids sing in the hollers, and there's something calling from the woods...

Think: whistling winds, howling coyotes, rural isolation, small towns, folklore, religious fanaticism, and ghostly voices coming from the forest

❗️Some of the these books are classified as extreme horror/splatterpunk. PLEASE protect yourself, and check all trigger warnings.❗️

Speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) novellas less than 200 pages long that are either standalone or read like a standalone story

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.

This is a collection of recommendations for people who want to get into extreme horror/splatterpunk without feeling pressured. Have fun, stay safe, and remain scary!!

Fiction stories about Haunted houses and other locations. Maybe it’s ghosts, maybe it’s cursed, maybe it’s ancient gods or creatures? All kinda of supernatural haunts and creatures attached to homes, objects, or locations.

a collection of horror books set in Appalachia - recommended by the community

We think of summer as the season of light, but shadows are longest when the sun is highest. It is the time of the year when the woods grow too thick to see through, the water grows too dark to see into, and the heat makes the mind play tricks. From the rotting porches of the South to the blood-stained cabins of the North... We call them the Summer Nightmares.

Tier 4 of the Disturbing Novel iceberg, inspired by the disturbing movie iceberg.

This Tier contains significant gore, taboo topics, and is not for the faint of heart.

These books are not for the faint of heart. PLEASE CHECK TRIGGER WARNINGS if that is important to you. This is the anything goes side of horror. If you are looking for something that is disgusting and makes you need a shower after look no further.

This is one of my favourite movie genres so I thought I’d make a list for books!

The most disturbing works the horror genre has to offer.

Not all of these books will have cannibalism... but there is a non-zero chance at least 1% will.

My recommendation on starting and getting into hardcore horror and splatterpunk. Approach with caution, read trigger warnings. Not ranked from mildest to hardest.

Dark reads that I couldn’t put down

A list of horror books with 200 pages or less for readers in need of small doses of spooks to get through their days.

Books that give you the heebies

Books with "River" in the title

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