Horror Aficionados discussion

Hello! The theme for our May group read is folk horror. Just in case anyone needs it:
Folk horror is a subgenre of horror film and horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition, folk religion, paganism, sacrifice and the dark aspects of nature.

Previous group reads are NOT eligible. You can find that list here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Books that get the most +1 are more likely to make it on the poll. Authors please do not nominate your own books.

I would like to kick it off with The Creeper

I will nominate Devil's Day by Andrew Michael Hurley

Maggie's Grave

Sallow Bend

My nomination is My Darling Dreadful Thing or Blood On Her Tongue, Johanna Van Veen

I love Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez!

Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

by Brian Keene

For reference, ALL PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE - NOT ELIGIBLE FOR NOMINATION

14 by Peter Clines

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Blister by Jeff Strand
The Boatmans' Daughter by Andy Davidson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates
Castaways by Brian Keene
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
Colony by Benjamin Cross
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
Cunning Folk by Adam L.G. Nevill

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Elementals by Michael McDowell 2X
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghostland by Duncan Ralston
The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Girls by Emma Cline
Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

The Haar by David Sodergren
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Hide by Kiersten White
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2X
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo
John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom

Larry by Adam Millard
Last Days by Adam Nevill
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2X
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Malignant by Michaelbrent Collings
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
Misery by Stephen King
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
Murder Road by Simone St. James
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam L.G. Nevill
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Parasite by Darcy Coates
Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Rats by James Herbert
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Revival by Stephen King
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Roo by Alan Baxter
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Ruins by Scott Smith

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Shining by Stephen King
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Slade House by David Mitchell
Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Subhuman by Michael McBride
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Terror by Dan Simmons 2X
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman 2X
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon

Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vessel by Adam Nevill

The Watchers by A.M. Shine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2X
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

You Like it Darker by Stephen King

I nominate

Withered Hill by David Barnett

I nominate The Unmothers by Leslie J Anderson

I second Alan with the vote for Withered Hill by David Barnett

I nominate by Victor LaValle

misery - stephen king!!!

I’m nominating Old Country by the Query brothers.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

+1 Maggie’s Grave

+1 for The Changeling and The Creeper

I'd like to nominate:

Sisters of the Lost Nation
The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
The Willows

+1 The Changeling

+1 David Barnett's Withered Hill

Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt.

Ashley wrote: "A Child Alone With Strangers by Phillip Fracassi!! 🥰🥰"

+1 for A Child Alone With Strangers by Philip Fracassi.

+1 Maggie's Grave
+1 The Changeling

I would like to nominate The Reddening by Adam Nevill.

Those are some fine choices but you can't beat Harvest Home. You will be very pleased with this gem of classic folk horror.

I’d like to nominate The Lighthouse Witches as I’ve had it on my kindle for a few years now and I’m trying to get through books I’ve ignored forever!

I nominate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Oops, I nominate Eynhallow by Tim McGregor

+1 the Gathering Dark

Adam S. Leslie - Lost in the Garden

I nominate Bad Cree by Jessica Johns. Bad Cree

+1 for Maggie’s Grave

I nominate (sorry I don’t know how to tag!) The Unworthy by Agustin’s Bazterrica!

+1 The Creeper
+1 Withered Hill

+1 Bad Cree
+1 A Child Alone With Strangers

+1 for Sallow Bend

Lost in the Garden

Sorry just realised have to tag. This is my nomination pick

+1 Bad Cree
+1 The Unworthy

+1 The Lighthouse Witches

WendyB wrote: "+1 The Lighthouse Witches"

Thanks Wendy for another vote for this one! 😃

Lisa - OwlBeSatReading wrote: "WendyB wrote: "+1 The Lighthouse Witches"

Thanks Wendy for another vote for this one! 😃"

I haven't heard of it before this but it sounds really interesting.

Joey wrote: "Those are some fine choices but you can't beat Harvest Home. You will be very pleased with this gem of classic folk horror."

Maxine wrote: "I would like to nominate The Reddening by Adam Nevill."

These were previous group reads and are thus NOT eligible. Please check the link in post 1 or the list copied in post 10 before nominating.

mireya wrote: "misery - stephen king!!!"

This was a previous group read and doesn't meet the theme.

WendyB wrote: "Lisa - OwlBeSatReading wrote: "WendyB wrote: "+1 The Lighthouse Witches"

Thanks Wendy for another vote for this one! 😃"

I haven't heard of it before this but it sounds really interesting."

It does! I bought it when it was a 99p kindle deal ages ago and I really must start getting through my kindle books as I tend to choose physical books over electronic and I must stop that 🤣 I’ve so many (potentially) great books lined up on my kindle and I thought this a good opportunity to get reading this one!

+1 Maggie's Grave

Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

Could someone point me to the rules for nominations? Thanks!

Allan wrote: "Could someone point me to the rules for nominations? Thanks!"

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The main rules are the books nominated should fit the theme mentioned and should be books that haven't been group reads before.

I second Withered Hill!

Justin wrote: "Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver"

*1

WendyB wrote: "Maggie's Grave

Sallow Bend"
+1 Maggie’s grace