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I like how they called 'Psychological Suspense' Horror's disturbing sibling.Personally I enjoy unreliable narrators to a point. I like surreal and dreamy style writing, where the character isn't sure what's going in mystery situations, the strong element of surprise and getting absorbed into the story.
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What do you think? Can you think of examples of this? I remember a traumatic experience reading that classic unreliable narrator in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I couldn't read a book in the first person for years afterwards! Also, when you go to unlikable characters, may I suggest The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson?