Paul Tremblay's "The Cabin at the End of the World" is a bottle episode horror, with seven characters trapped in a cabin, four of them believing that the apocalypse is about to happen, and three trying to escape. It's EXTREMELY tense and dark.
Brian Hodge's "The Immaculate Void" is pure cosmic horror - the protagonist, Daphne, was kidnapped and nearly murdered as a child. As an adult, she's spent her life trying to track down her captor's other victims, but grows to realize that something larger is moving towards her.
David Nickle's "Eutopia" and "Volk:" the first book takes place in a eugenicist colony in rural Idaho, where experiments meant to create the perfect human have resulted in a monster being unleashed. The second one takes place in 1930s Germany fifteen years later, where the Nazis attempt to harness the monsters to their own purposes. Both books have a very strong atmosphere/sense of place, and not a small amount of body horror.
T. Kingfisher's "The Twisted Ones:" Mouse is asked by her father to clean out her dead grandmother's house in North Carolina. She finds her step-grandfather's journal, which she initially dismissed as dementia-induced ravings - until the creatures he wrote about start to appear outside the house. Strong atmosphere. Also, the dog survives!
Gemma Files' "Experimental Film" follows a film history professor named Lois Cairns, who sets out to investigate a forgotten Canadian filmmaker from the early twentieth century, only to discover that the films are haunted by a hungry Scandanavian ghost - who now has her eyes set on Lois's son.
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Date: 2019-12-23 04:33 pm (UTC)Paul Tremblay's "The Cabin at the End of the World" is a bottle episode horror, with seven characters trapped in a cabin, four of them believing that the apocalypse is about to happen, and three trying to escape. It's EXTREMELY tense and dark.
Brian Hodge's "The Immaculate Void" is pure cosmic horror - the protagonist, Daphne, was kidnapped and nearly murdered as a child. As an adult, she's spent her life trying to track down her captor's other victims, but grows to realize that something larger is moving towards her.
David Nickle's "Eutopia" and "Volk:" the first book takes place in a eugenicist colony in rural Idaho, where experiments meant to create the perfect human have resulted in a monster being unleashed. The second one takes place in 1930s Germany fifteen years later, where the Nazis attempt to harness the monsters to their own purposes. Both books have a very strong atmosphere/sense of place, and not a small amount of body horror.
T. Kingfisher's "The Twisted Ones:" Mouse is asked by her father to clean out her dead grandmother's house in North Carolina. She finds her step-grandfather's journal, which she initially dismissed as dementia-induced ravings - until the creatures he wrote about start to appear outside the house. Strong atmosphere. Also, the dog survives!
Gemma Files' "Experimental Film" follows a film history professor named Lois Cairns, who sets out to investigate a forgotten Canadian filmmaker from the early twentieth century, only to discover that the films are haunted by a hungry Scandanavian ghost - who now has her eyes set on Lois's son.