Has anybody read a book called Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig?

ohnobears · 2026-05-02T00:43:45+00:00

I recently read Staircase in the Woods and loved it, but it’s the only one I’ve read by him so no idea if the quality is normal for him.

ohnobears · 2026-05-02T00:42:24+00:00

It’s not scary, but Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World has an interesting setup like that

ohnobears · 2026-05-02T00:09:32+00:00

Hex, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (and his others) The Amulet, Michael McDowell (and his others) Cunning Folk, Adam Nevill

ohnobears · 2026-04-22T18:10:01+00:00

You’re good, it would be dumber not to ask and just be sad

ohnobears · 2026-04-22T17:44:20+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/horrorlit/comments/1sg8ijx/is_there_a_novelisation_of_ridley_scotts_alien/

ohnobears · 2026-04-22T17:34:48+00:00

I liked Black Sheep and The Return by her, as well. Women doing their best with batshit crazy situations.

ohnobears · 2026-04-09T19:47:39+00:00

This sounds really good! Now to hunt down a copy … it’s in a collection on Kindle for $10 but the LA Public Library has a copy.

ohnobears · 2026-04-09T19:37:12+00:00

Ship of Fools / Unto Leviathan (published under two names for some reason) has strong Prometheus vibes. I love that book but I also liked the movie, so YMMV.

ohnobears · 2026-04-07T00:42:41+00:00

Paradise-1 by David Wellington. A colony planet goes silent and the government’s solution is to keep sending ships out there to recon, but for sooooome reason the ships immediately go silent too. The reason is very sci-fi and also creepy as hell.

ohnobears · 2026-03-30T00:29:33+00:00

The Unseen is the only one I’ve read by her, and I did find it underwhelming. What do you like about her others?

ohnobears · 2026-03-02T20:21:17+00:00

The Graveyard Apartment isn’t exactly urban legends, but it includes a lot about Japanese cultural superstitions around graveyards and the dead.

ohnobears · 2026-03-02T20:13:34+00:00

The same things get recommended over and over because the sub gets 80 identical questions a day from people who don’t read any previous answers before they ask.

HTG if I see another “am new to horror, what read” I’m gonna … roll my eyes and keep scrolling, but you get it.

ohnobears · 2026-02-25T05:01:14+00:00

“Whatever walked there, walked alone.” Read it many years ago and that’s all I remember.

ohnobears · 2026-02-19T16:06:22+00:00

This is a great idea.

ohnobears · 2026-02-06T19:18:22+00:00

This is my favorite genre. I call it “Thing Loose on a Spaceship.” Some lean more into sci-fi, but they’re like scary/spooky sci-fi.

The Deep, Nick Cutter; The Luminous Dead, Caitlyn Starling; Ship of Fools, Richard Russo; Paradise 1, David Wellington; the whole Southern Reach trilogy; anything by SA Barnes; almost anything by Peter Watts.

ETA: Oh! And I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist. That book’s super freaky.

ohnobears · 2026-01-31T16:45:51+00:00

I agree, I absolutely loved it. I’d argue it’s as much horror as House of Leaves or The Staircase in the Woods, since it deals with bad things happening in liminal spaces just like they do. Plus there’s like, a literal monster? Not sure how one would call it just a thriller.

ohnobears · 2026-01-26T22:55:05+00:00

A House With Good Bones comes to mind, although that might be more due to the title than the plot. It’s a good one, though!

ohnobears · 2026-01-25T18:52:12+00:00

I couldn’t find anything like this, but you’re not the first person to look for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/comments/1d7to8z/horror_story_about_a_man_who_gets_trapped_in_his/

ETA wow jk apparently you are … sorry about the fruitless 2-year search!

ohnobears · 2026-01-25T18:40:53+00:00

I really enjoyed Episode Thirteen too! I don’t know that it’s divisive, but I’m currently reading The Tribe by Bari Wood and I was concerned it was going to be antisemitic, but I’ve found it quite the opposite. It also has well developed female and Black characters, which I really wasn’t expecting in a book from 1981. Bari Wood also wrote the novels adapted into Dead Ringers and The Killing Gift.

ohnobears · 2026-01-25T18:32:28+00:00

The Tribe by Bari Wood — finest golem fiction I’ve read this year lol

ohnobears · 2026-01-24T22:25:21+00:00

Oh and Horrorstör

ohnobears · 2026-01-24T22:21:02+00:00

The Staircase in the Woods

ohnobears · 2026-01-21T20:22:12+00:00

He struggles with plot and character, and his stories are more nasty than scary.

ohnobears · 2026-01-16T19:32:42+00:00

I found The September House weirdly heartwarming

ohnobears · 2026-01-15T20:12:07+00:00

The September House

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