I’d say, think more along the lines of Hell House than The Haunting of Hill House. It’s more graphic than a lot of the books in the recommended readalikes list below. If you’re okay with a little spice (read: more graphic body horror) mixed in with your atmospheric ghost stories, this is a good fit for you, too. I was rewarded with vivid, poetic language that both kept the simmering, slow burn of a literary horror novel and turned things up to a nasty, rolling boil when the time came for the angry ghost to exact her price. It’s the exact kind of creepy, atmospheric, literary, Asian horror story I was hoping it would be. The good news for me* is that judging this book by its cover paid off spectacularly well. Examples:īring together five “old friends” who have more beefs with each other than is healthyĮlope and hold your wedding in an abandoned mansion this is notoriously haunted by a jilted bride, who is buried in the foundation of the house, no less There are lots of things people probably shouldn’t do. I can’t remember how I found it-it seemed like everyone was hyping it- but from the first time I laid eyes on that cover, it was on! I had this one marked on my calendar months before its release date. Nothing But Blackened Teeth, however, required no digging whatsoever. Robin’s much better about tapping this rich vein of literature. It’s been a while since I’ve read a novella.
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