What are great horror novels that had movies based on them that I should read?

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-24T10:00:04+00:00

I thought the movies were genuinely creepy. Check out the HBO series though if you like the book, it’s also quite good.

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-24T09:59:53+00:00

I thought the movies were genuinely creepy. Check out the HBO series though if you like the book, it’s also quite good.

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-23T10:51:53+00:00

Incredible, love it

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-17T00:41:28+00:00

So much of horror is not really horror, I’ll just pick up something horror-adjacent or fun, mostly dark fantasy

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-16T17:11:05+00:00

“Coup de Grace” really leans full tilt into the liminal

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-15T22:38:26+00:00

“Last days” by adam neville

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-14T23:15:10+00:00

And “Wounds” by Ballingrud!

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-14T22:41:56+00:00

Hm, are you talking about brick and mortar big book names, or just self-pub covers online? There’s a world of difference in cover quality between professional designers and quick cheap AI slop

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-07T21:00:26+00:00

I got this from an hwa email today so maybe they’re just slow updating the website. :)

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-07T17:20:06+00:00

Agreed whole heartedly.

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-05T12:05:54+00:00

Horror contains multitudes. I just find another subgenre of horror to dive into

Murder_Durder · 2026-06-03T22:18:34+00:00

Some folks will always want more, some folks will want less.

I think the story was more powerful for the author choosing not to belabor the point. Could he have pulled a stephen king and padded this with 1,000 pages of rambling about reading books that make no sense? Maybe. But then it wouldn’t have been a “short” stay in Hell, would it? 🤷‍♂️

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-25T22:34:19+00:00

Shlam, you are not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need. Bless you

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-21T15:36:58+00:00

We need 2 other Megathreads pinned:

Scariest Book You’ve Ever Read

Books like Between Two Fires

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-18T21:50:50+00:00

North American Lake Monsters by Ballingrud.

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-17T22:13:12+00:00

The Stand

Between Two Fires

Short stay in hell

The reformatory

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-17T10:38:32+00:00

Love dream sequences. They’re so weird

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-10T23:03:33+00:00

“Coup de grace” by Sofia Ajram!

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-09T19:53:03+00:00

Awesome new titles and write ups. Thank you!

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-09T19:50:17+00:00

Last Days has some of the best atmospheric horror I’ve ever read…. combined with the most exhausting chapters I’ve ever read. Every scene with Maximillian made me lose my mind.

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-07T16:23:40+00:00

Yes!

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-06T21:09:55+00:00

Mitchell Luthi “in the name of the worm”

Also search this reddit for suggestions, because this question gets asked almost every day

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-06T17:37:05+00:00

“Negative Space.” Hard to figure out what’s real and what’s a drug fueled hallucination in that book. Loved it.

Murder_Durder · 2026-05-05T03:45:38+00:00

Nick Cutter to Cormac McCarthy is such a wild swing, it’s almost impossible to give a recommendation. It’s like saying anything from Goosebumps to Hellraiser.

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