https://lithub.com/10-works-of-literary-horror-you-should-read/

Like all genres, literary fiction included, horror is a watery one. What makes something horror? What makes something literary? No one can say exactly. (…) I suppose my idea of literary horror is similar to the “suggestive horror” that Brian Evenson discusses during an interview at The White Review: “The notion of a more suggestive horror, which raises the spectre of an insidiously elusive reality, is much more frightening than a lot of what gets called horror, and more realistic than what gets called realism.”

Book suggested:

  • The Changeling by Victor LaValle
  • Last Days by Brian Evenson
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • .Piercing by Ryu Murakami
  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
  • After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Blood Crime by Sebastià Alzamora
  • Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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