Dracula
Bram Stoker
1897
Books with the “Creeping Dread” trope
Horror that slowly builds a quiet sense that something is terribly wrong, instead of using jump scares or gore.
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Books with this trope
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
1886
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
1902
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
1898
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
1949
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
1985
Misery
Stephen King
1987
The Shining
Stephen King
1977
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
1938
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2020
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
2019
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
2000
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1872
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
1989
Blindsight
Peter Watts
2006
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
2006
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
2003
The Collector
John Fowles
1963
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
1898
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
1959
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
1962
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
1794
Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin
1820
The Beetle
Richard Marsh
1897
Hell House
Richard Matheson
1971
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
1971
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
1979
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
1983
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
2007
The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
2009
Slade House
David Mitchell
2015
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
2017
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
1980
The Terror
Dan Simmons
2007
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
1979
Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman
2012
The Library at Mount Char
Scott Hawkins
2015
Bunny
Mona Awad
2019
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
2020
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1892
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
M. R. James
1904
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
1895
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
2000
The Elementals
Michael McDowell
1981
Uncle Silas
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
1864
Bird Box
Josh Malerman
2014
A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul Tremblay
2015
Hex
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
2013
The Hacienda
Isabel Cañas
2022
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
2020
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
1988
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
1984
Behind Closed Doors
B. A. Paris
2016
Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney
2021
The Push
Ashley Audrain
2021
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
2021
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
2016
Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier
1936
The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
2016
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
H. P. Lovecraft
1999
The Fisherman
John Langan
2016
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle
2016
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
2014
The Troop
Nick Cutter
2014
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher
2022
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
2020
The Spite House
Johnny Compton
2023
Ghost Eaters
Clay McLeod Chapman
2022
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
2023
The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons
1978
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
1973
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
1951
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
2016
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