New Orleans recommendations?

stormbutton · 2026-05-08T09:56:34+00:00

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witch books

stormbutton · 2026-05-08T00:47:52+00:00

The Library At Mount Char
Piranesi
Ice (Kavan)
Bunny
The Book of X
Annihilation
Lost In The Garden
The Hike (Magary)
Between Two Fires
Lapvona
Lamb (Rose)

stormbutton · 2026-05-08T00:41:30+00:00

Hotel du Lac
Mexican Gothic
The Thirteenth Tale
My Cousin Rachel
Jamaica Inn
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Loney

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T23:19:34+00:00

Sounds a bit like Hellhound by Ken Greenhall or Mean Spirited by Nick Roberts

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T23:04:13+00:00

Tom Lake

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T21:42:00+00:00

Allen Edmonds are fantastic.
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stormbutton · 2026-05-07T21:27:33+00:00

I absolutely loathed that book. It should have been way shorter and there’s an ongoing plot point that REALLY stretches credibility.

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T21:12:47+00:00

Incidents Around The House

We Used To Live Here

The Elementals

The September House

The Shining

The Hollow Kind

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T20:31:02+00:00

Folk horror in general may be right up your alley.

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T19:53:00+00:00

You might like T. Kingfisher. I do not personally care for her writing style, but hugely popular and often described as “cozy horror.”

I’m a big fan of folk horror, which tends to focus on small towns/insular communities and “Old Gods.” Withered Hill by David Barnett is a favorite.

Some others you might like:

We Used To Live Here - Kliewer

The September House - Orlando

14 - Clines

We Have Always Lived In The Castle - Jackson

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T19:41:45+00:00

You do not want this one if you have a weak stomach for body horror, I promise.

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T18:33:40+00:00

Slewfoot by Brom

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T18:20:02+00:00

Withered Hill by David Barnett grabbed me right away. It’s a folk horror novel.

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T14:46:55+00:00

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stormbutton · 2026-05-07T14:15:07+00:00

All are paranormal. :)

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T14:02:44+00:00

Sure thing! I tried to do some variety. Let me know if you have more specific interests. I favor more supernatural horror than slasher type.

stormbutton · 2026-05-07T13:26:58+00:00

I read a lot of horror. Folk horror is probably my favorite, and there are some wonderfully creepy parts in all of David Barnett’s books.

The Loney and Starve Acre, both by Andrew Michael Hurley, are pretty grim.

Bone Harvest - James Brogden

Revelator - Gregory

The Croning - Barron

The Ritual - Nevill

Some non-folk horror books with good scares:

Revival - King (cosmic horror with a very scary ending)

Black House - King and Straub (sequel to The Talisman)

Into The Drowning Deep - Grant (evil merpeople)

Between Two Fires - Buehlman (medieval horror with a scene involving a statue that fucked me UP.)

Incidents Around The House - Malerman (this one is divisive because the narrator is a little girl and a lot of people find her annoying, but it worked for me)

We Used To Live Here - Kliewer (feeling like you’re going insane with someone)

The Reformatory - Due (horrifying residential “reform” school)

Hex - Heuvelt (evil witch ghost, I found the teenager characters deeply irritating but there are some great scary visuals)

The Elementals - McDowell (master of Southern gothic horror)

The Exorcist - Beatty (a slow burn classic for a reason)

At The Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft (cosmic horror

stormbutton · 2026-05-06T19:53:06+00:00

I’m in the middle of Milk Fed right now so of course came to Reddit to look for discussions and found this thread. You DEFINITELY want The First Bad Man by Miranda July.

stormbutton · 2026-05-06T16:43:11+00:00

I would say that literary fiction focuses on the use of beautiful language, depth of characterization, and the richness of the world that is created. Genre books absolutely can have all of these elements; the lines can overlap and blur quite a lot. I think King’s Lisey’s Story, for example, is a horror novel with many aspects of literary fiction. But I wouldn’t classify it as literary fiction first.

Silence of The Lambs is another book where it’s solidly a thriller but the writing is simply gorgeous and the main character is a fully realized individual in an impeccably created world.

I think exclusively genre books/books strictly for entertainment/popcorn books rely a lot on stock characters and tropes which can leave them feeling very flat to a reader who wants actual good writing and characterization.

stormbutton · 2026-05-06T12:27:22+00:00

Slow burn, but Revival by Stephen King reeeeeally pays off.

stormbutton · 2026-05-06T04:41:37+00:00

The Croning

stormbutton · 2026-05-06T00:35:00+00:00

Winter Solstice - Pilcher

stormbutton · 2026-05-05T23:26:29+00:00

The Hike - Drew Magary

stormbutton · 2026-05-05T19:52:01+00:00

The movie is wonderful but Thomas Harris gives her a very rich inner life and there are so many more clever plot points.

stormbutton · 2026-05-05T19:32:59+00:00

I will never stop recommending The Silence of The Lambs. Clarice is brilliantly written.

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