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"Luck in the Shadows" and its sequel "Stalking Darkness" are more fantasy than horror, but there were parts that spooked me so I really liked them! Hope you can see past the cliché titles and give them a try ☺️
Might I be so bold to recommend my Edgar Allan Poe and the Specter Eliminator? I will also second ’Salem’s Lot You could read it before the new series releases. And why not one recommendation for King's son, (Heart-Shaped Box) By: Hill, Joe Jan, 2010
For clarification, 'Salems Lot is about vampires. Not what's normally considered supernatural, and definitely not fantasy. The Shining is about a haunted hotel and boy with a special mental ability. Neither sounds like what the OP is looking for.Dungeons & Dragons has a whole series of horror books in a fantasy setting called Ravenloft. A list of most of them can be found here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
(You can also search Ravenloft on Goodreads)
Alan wrote: "For clarification, 'Salems Lot is about vampires. Not what's normally considered supernatural, and definitely not fantasy. The Shining is about a haunted hotel and boy with a special mental ability..."Vampires are absolutely supernatural. They are undead beings. And isn't all horror fantasy? Well, maybe not clowns... :-)
I think the closest what you are looking for could beGideon the Ninth
The Replacement
Warm Bodies
The Child Thief
Neverwhere
Clive Barker is an author to look into, particularly Weavweorld, The Great and Secret Show.American Gods by Neil Gaiman is quite good.
Anything by Brom would qualify as well.
@Alan OP said "Fantasy OR Supernatural."And as someone who is a fanatic for Supernatural stuff, Vampires and Hauntings are definitely under that category :D
Micaylah wrote: I really liked Fairy Tale by Stephen King but I wouldn't really say it's horror, it's more like a dark fantasy. It does take a while for stuff to start happening though.I second that. I really liked Fairy Tale a lot. Not horror exactly, but plenty of horrible happenings. I love vampire and zombie novels, and personally I automatically consider them supernatural by default (even if the author tries to make them "scientific"). So that said, I really loved Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie and The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman.
I recently read Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell and it blends elements of horror, fantasy, and romance really well! It's sapphic romance and really well done in my opinion!
Megan wrote: "I recently read Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell and it blends elements of horror, fantasy, and romance really well! It's sapphic romance and really well done in my opinion!"
That's on my list, glad to know you recommend it!
That's on my list, glad to know you recommend it!
If you're not allergic to short stories, you can go back a ways and look into Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique stories (Zothique, although I think there are newer small press editions that would be easier to find) or dip into his work with The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies.There's also, The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton, which won a World Fantasy Award but has become relatively obscure in spite of that. It plays off Smith's work.
There's also the short novel The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft, a fairly well-known friend of Smith's.
I haven't read a lot of her work, but I suspect you'd find some of Tanith Lee's work a good fantasy/horror hybrid. Ditto Storm Constantine.
Robert E. Howard and Karl Edward Wagner both wrote Sword & Sorcery series that merge fantasy and horror; Conan for Howard, Kane for Wagner -- novels as well as short stories for the latter.
A different form of fantasy, The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll, offers a more contemporary setting, where our world and the world of a book get mixed together. For most of it's length it doesn't seem exactly like horror, but ...
Mexican Gothic I think is very supernatural-esque. I also second Heart-Shaped Box. I'd also add NOS4A2. Really good choices given already as well!
Lupe wrote: "Mexican Gothic I think is very supernatural-esque. I also second Heart-Shaped Box. I'd also add NOS4A2. Really good choices given already as well!"I liked all three, too, but NOS4A2 feels the most like fantasy to me.
Ancient Enemy by Mark Lukens. Very Frightening novel! I loved it so much!!
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I really liked Fairy Tale by Stephen King but I wouldn't really say it's horror, it's more like a dark fantasy. It does take a while for stuff to start happening though.