I'm going camping next week and would love to load my kindle with some horror books that take place in the forest. Any recommendations?
Recommendations - Spooky books set in the forest
10 days ago by anticonnor to c/horrorlit
I'm going camping next week and would love to load my kindle with some horror books that take place in the forest. Any recommendations?
Thanks for the recs! I've read and liked The Willows, read and didn't like The Hollow Places (T Kingfisher's self insert characters are getting more annooying), and have The Ritual on hold (enjoyed the movie).
There were some others I'll probably get to eventually, but can't wait for them to come off hold before my trip, so here's a couple that I've found that are available now:
I can’t seem to stop thinking of this topic and I can’t sleep. so here’s a few more recs;
Are you set on forest horror, specifically? If we expand it to wilderness horror, I can think of a few more:
Are you willing to expand the concept of wilderness horror even further to ice/snow horror?
Enjoy your camping trip!
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Algernon Blackwood’s “the Willows” comes immediately to mind. It’s about two men traveling by river and forced to camp on an island. The wilderness surrounding them is depicted as supernatural and malevolent. This one is public domain I believe.
T Kingfisher wrote a book called “the hollow places” that took inspiration from the willows and modernized it. I found this one enjoyable enough, but rather slight. Ymmv.
Adam Neville’s “the ritual” takes place in a forest. Or so I believe - I haven’t read it, but I love the movie adaptation. As I understand it though the movie took liberties with the source material and differed in key respects.
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