Bad Things ✨️DO✨️ Happen in the Daytime
Summertime Horrors and Southern Gothics🖤☀️ A collection of short and long fiction where terrible things happen in broad daylight. From summer slashers to botanical horror to aliens in the cornfield, this list is perfect for unique Horror thrill seekers, Summerween readers and fans of The X Files and The Skeleton Key! Please comment your recs!😊
created by Sunflower_Witch
last updated July, 2026
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The Honeys by Ryan La Sala HAS to be added to this! the tagline is "sometimes the darkest secrets lurk in broad daylight"
Ooh, adding! Thanks😊 If you're curious, I got the title from my favourite series as a teen - Vampire Academy - in which the MC walks in on a murdered family and falls apart a little because she was always told "bad things" ie. Vampire attacks only happen at night.
Oooo fun list! Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings fits for sure, a lot of eerie happenings in the sun!
Thank you! Will look it up!
LOVE this list!! Instant save!
Aaah, thank you so much!🤭🤭🤭 If you want specific recs just ask!
