# Recommend some horror books with unusual premises

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [May 4, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-horror-books-with-unusual-premises/1017866 "2025-05-04T14:23:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-horror-books-with-unusual-premises/1017866/26 "2025-05-06T02:05:30Z")

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> [@ParallelLines](#):
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> I seem to recall we had a recent-ish thread on this topic, but I can’t find it right now.

Found! Just needed to narrow my search.

> [@I'm jaded. Please recommend me some \*good\* horror fiction](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-jaded-please-recommend-me-some-good-horror-fiction/984018):
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> If you’ve read much of what I’ve posted on the SDMB, and Cafe Society in particular, you will have surmised that I’m a big fan of the Horror genre in most media–movies, TV,comics, websites, and, the subject of this post, fiction (with a preference for the short story form, but I also love a good scary novel). My problem is that I’m also a jaded horror fan who sometimes thinks he’s read everything that’s any good. I know damned well that I haven’t read all the horror fiction that’s any good, so …

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