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Raymond E. Feist · 1988 · US · horror · fantasy
★ 3.88 Goodreads · 11,770 ratings

The Hastings family moves into an old farmhouse in upstate New York, and the twin boys start meeting something in the woods.

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12 books for readers of Faerie Tale

A Box Full of Darkness

Simone St. James · 2026 · Canada 95% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 23,514 ratings
shares: creepy, upstate New York, family · easy read, earnest

Years after their youngest brother Ben vanished near the woods everyone avoids in the strange town of Fell, New York, the three estranged Esmie siblings, Violet, Vail and Dodie, come home when Ben seems to be calling them back.

The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher · 2019 · US 95% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 53,094 ratings
shares: creepy, folk horror, eerie · easy read, speculative

Mouse, a freelance editor, goes with her dog Bongo to clear out her late grandmother's hoarded house in rural North Carolina, and finds her step-grandfather's journal, which reads like the work of a madman.

The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black · 2015 · US 94% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 91,627 ratings
shares: fae, dark fantasy, family · speculative, earnest

In Fairfold, a town where humans live alongside the fae, Hazel and her brother Ben have always loved the horned boy asleep in a glass coffin in the woods, until one day he wakes.

Tithe

Holly Black · 2002 · US 94% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 110,979 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Modern Faerie Tales
shares: fae, dark fantasy · speculative, earnest

Kaye, sixteen, who drifts around with her rock-singer mother, moves back to her grandmother's house in New Jersey and finds herself caught up in a war between the faerie courts.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 93% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: fae, dark fantasy · earnest, speculative

Aislinn, who has always been able to see faeries and has kept it secret, is chosen by Keenan, the Summer King, as the mortal girl who may become his queen.

The Fisherman

John Langan · 2016 · US 93% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 53,542 ratings
shares: folk horror, upstate New York · earnest, speculative

Abe, who took up fishing after his wife died, agrees to take Dan, a newly widowed coworker, to Dutchman's Creek in the Catskills, and at a diner on the way the cook tells them the story of the creek.

The Bog Wife

Kay Chronister · 2024 · US 92% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 17,866 ratings
shares: folk horror, eerie, family · earnest, dark

For generations the Haddesleys of West Virginia have buried their patriarch in the bog in exchange for a wife to carry on the line. When their father dies and no bride rises for the eldest son, his siblings start to come apart.

Hide

Kiersten White · 2022 · US 92% match ★ 3.31 Goodreads · 46,600 ratings
shares: folk horror, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Fourteen contestants are sent into an abandoned amusement park for a week-long game of hide and seek with a big cash prize, and Mack, who survived something terrible as a child by hiding, means to win.

Ghost Story

Peter Straub · 1979 · US 90% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 85,159 ratings
shares: upstate New York · earnest, speculative

In the small town of Milburn, New York, four elderly men who call themselves the Chowder Society meet to tell ghost stories, and after the strange death of a fifth member, a winter of nightmares tells them that a secret from their youth has come back.

Pet Sematary

Stephen King · 1983 · US 90% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 737,258 ratings
shares: folk horror, family · earnest, easy read

Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to rural Maine, where an old neighbour shows him the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery behind their house, a place that can bring the dead back, though not as they were.

Harvest Home

Thomas Tryon · 1973 · US 90% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 11,972 ratings
shares: folk horror, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

A New York artist moves his family to a picturesque Connecticut farming village that still celebrates the old harvest rites, and slowly learns what the women of Cornwall Coombe expect of the corn.

Salem's Lot

Stephen King · 1975 · US 89% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 690,769 ratings
shares: suspenseful · earnest, easy read

A writer moves to a quiet Maine town and discovers that the respectable residents are being turned into vampires, one invitation at a time.