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10/27/2025 13:33

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Anonymous wrote:Fiend by Alma Katsu - terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb

The Taker Trilogy also by Alma Katsu: True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price.

Night Film by Marisha Pessl On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive, cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova - a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than 30 years.

Katabasis by RF Kuang: two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. I thought it was her best book yet.

I liked Night Film quite a bit. (Also liked her first book and was wondering when she’d put out another. )

I didn’t love Babel— should I give Kuang another try?

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10/27/2025 13:38

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Anonymous wrote:I read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson every October. It’s my favorite spooky book.

Classics include The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, and Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White. Rebecca is great, but not scary (in my opinion).

I love short stories by M. R. James (particularly “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”), Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Bowen (“The Demon Lover”), and also the short ghost stories of Henry James. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman is a shivery treat. Honestly, just order an old copy of 65 Great Spine Chillers (edited by Mary Dabney) and you’ll have plenty of spooky, well-written stories.

Newer scary books I’ve enjoyed are How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix, The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James, and The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James.

Ha! I wrote this reply a year ago.

OP, maybe try The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle. The film adaptation is also deliciously eerie.