Jake
Jake asked Laura Mauro:

SYSD is really really good. Can you recommend any other literature that might give me the same eerie feeling?

Laura Mauro Apologies for the delay! I had only just realised there was a question here.

I'm so glad you enjoyed SYSD! I would highly recommend All The Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma, which has quite rightly won several awards. Get In Trouble by Kelly Link is slightly more fantastical but still has a strong sense of atmosphere, as does Singing With All My Skin And Bone by Sunny Moraine. One of my personal favourite collections in recent years is North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud.

Outside of short fiction, Bodies of Water by VH Leslie is deliciously eerie. And perhaps my favourite eerie novel of all time is Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

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