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Joe Hill · 2010 · US · horror · fantasy
★ 3.77 Hardcover · 363 ratings

A year after his girlfriend Merrin was raped and murdered and the town decided he did it, Ig Perrish wakes after a drunken night with horns growing from his head, and finds that people now confess their darkest wishes to him.

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Floating Dragon

Peter Straub · 1983 · US 94% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 12,946 ratings
shares: demonic, New England, small town · dark, violent

A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.

Needful Things

Stephen King · 1991 · US 94% match ★ 3.77 Hardcover · 560 ratings
shares: demonic, small town, dark humoured, devil · dark, intricate plot

A new shop called Needful Things opens in Castle Rock, Maine, and its courtly owner, Leland Gaunt, sells each customer the thing they most desire for a small price and a little prank to play on a neighbour.

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 31,495 ratings
shares: demonic, small town, religious · easy read, dark

Rose Darling is a devout, cheerful teenager in Neverton, Montana, home of the most successful gay conversion camp in the country, and when she begins having terrifying visions no one can explain, she goes looking for what her church and her town have hidden.

Bag of Bones

Stephen King · 1998 · US 94% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 216,231 ratings
shares: small town, grief, romantic · dark, suspenseful

Four years after his wife's sudden death, the bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to write, goes to their lake house in western Maine, where he is drawn into a young widow's fight to keep her daughter from the child's wealthy grandfather.

Heart-Shaped Box

Joe Hill · 2007 · US 94% match ★ 3.83 Goodreads · 161,304 ratings
shares: revenge · easy read, dark

Ageing rock star Judas Coyne collects grim curiosities, so when an online auction offers a dead man's suit along with his ghost, he buys it, and the ghost that arrives in a heart-shaped box turns out to have a personal reason for coming.

Dear Debbie

Freida McFadden · 2026 · US 93% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 675,706 ratings
shares: twisty, New England, revenge · easy read, intimate

Debbie Mullen, a New England advice columnist with a genius IQ and little patience, loses her job on the same bad day that her daughter is dropped from the soccer team and her neighbour accuses her of sabotage, and she decides the people who have wronged her should pay.

The Fireman

Joe Hill · 2016 · US 93% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 68,547 ratings
shares: New England · dark, intricate plot

A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.

The Kind Worth Killing

Peter Swanson · 2015 · US 91% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 258,555 ratings
shares: twisty, revenge, murder · suspenseful, easy read

Stuck in a bar at Heathrow, Ted Severson drunkenly tells a beautiful stranger named Lily that his wife is cheating on him and that he would like to kill her, and Lily, quite calmly, offers to help.

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones · 2020 · US 90% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 128,802 ratings
shares: revenge · dark, violent

Ten years after four young Blackfeet men shot a herd of elk on land reserved for their tribe's elders, something from that day begins to track them and their families, and it has been patient.

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty · 1971 · US 90% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 287,273 ratings
shares: demonic, religious · dark, suspenseful

When a film actress living in Georgetown becomes convinced that her young daughter Regan is possessed, she turns to Father Damien Karras, a Jesuit psychiatrist who is losing his faith, and the exorcism that follows becomes a battle for everyone involved.

The Good House

Tananarive Due · 2003 · US 89% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 11,794 ratings
shares: small town, grief · dark, suspenseful

Two years after her teenage son died at her late grandmother's house in Sacajawea, Washington, Angela Toussaint goes back to it, and learns why the women in her family were once feared there.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones · 2025 · US 89% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 74,678 ratings
shares: revenge · dark, violent

In 2012 an academic, Etsy Beaucarne, receives a manuscript found in the wall of a Montana parsonage: her ancestor Arthur, a pastor, wrote down in 1912 the confession of a Blackfeet man named Good Stab.