Horror Books That Are Creepy but Not Terrifying
These books defy the typical tropes of their genre — perfect if you love the genre but hate certain elements.
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
by Andrew Lang
Zapiski okhotnika
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Le Côté de Guermantes
by Marcel Proust
Ulysses
by James Joyce
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Vril
by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The Tombs of Atuan
by Ursula K. Le Guin
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
The red romance book
by Andrew Lang
Falling Man
by Don DeLillo
The Whole Family
by William Dean Howells
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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