Quiet Horror

Subtly written horror that uses atmosphere and mood, rather than graphic description, to create fear and suspense.

In The Night Wood
Harvest Home
The Yellow Wall-Paper
A Cosmology of Monsters
The Little Stranger
Winterbay Abbey
Thin Air: A Ghost Story
Come Closer
Wylding Hall
Dark Matter
Maynard's House
The Quiet Tenant
William
The Long Walk
The Compound
Something with Blood in the Title by Khurt KhaveThe Poorly Made and Other Things by Sam RebeleinDoorways to the Unseen by James DermondLearning to Kiss in the Snow by D.B. TarpleySouthern Haunts by Alexander S. Brown
Quiet Horror Anthologies
31 books — 8 voters
It Lives in The Basement by Sahara FoleyCome Closer by Sara GranThe Sinner by K. Trap JonesQuiet Houses by Simon Kurt UnsworthMisadventures of a Cryptid Hunter by Michael Kelso
Best Quiet Horror
47 books — 66 voters


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