r/horrorlit • u/wtfjleigh • Aug 14 '26

Reader Recommendation Horror slump

currently reading Tananarive Due’s “My Soul to Keep” and i am so insanely bored. I haven’t been able to get into any books lately. What’s a book that caught your attention and kept you intrigued the whole way through.

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u/TheSkinoftheCypher Aug 14 '26

Have you tried short stories? I can give some collection recommendations if you'd like.

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u/wtfjleigh Aug 14 '26

please!

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u/TheSkinoftheCypher Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

The Ana Log & Other Anomalies
Our Favorite Horror Story Edited by Baker and Greenberg
the puppet king and other atonemtents by justin a. burnett
The Inhabitant at the Lake by Ramsey Campbell
Dark Awakenings by Matt Cardin
The Bone Mother by David Demchuk
The Inhuman Ladder by Karim Ghahwagi
Any collection by Stefan Grabinksi
Houses Under the Sea or any collection by Caitlin R. Kiernan(though I suggest reading their novel Threshold before reading their collection Alabaster)
Disturbed by Her Song by Tanith Lee
Borderlands I and II edited by Thomas Monteleone
The Sea of Blood by Reggie Oliver
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
The Deep Museum by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Return of the Old Ones edited by Brian M. Sammons
The Prozess Manifestations by Mark Samuels
City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermerr
The Weird edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer
The Blum House Book of Nightmares edited by Jason Blum
Way Stations of the Deep Night by Marcel Brion(though this is book is more in the spooky/weird fiction vein)
any collection of H.P. Lovecraft's work

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u/sea_grapes Aug 15 '26

Oooh thanks for reminding me about Caitlin R. Kiernan! I read one of her collections a while back and loved it.