Needful Things (1991)

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen King

1999 · 224 pages · 1 review

Others: Mixed

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) is a psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King.

It

Stephen King

1986 · 1138 pages · 10 reviews

Others: Leaning positive

"It" is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. "It" was his 22nd book and his 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It" primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to attract its preferred prey of young children. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1987, and received nominations for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards that same year. In 2003, "It" was listed at number 144 on the BBC's The Big Read poll.

Middle of the Night

Riley Sager

2024 · 384 pages · 9 reviews

Others: Mostly negative

The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul-de-sac at odd hours, and signs of Billy’s presence keep appearing in Ethan’s backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle? The mysterious occurrences prompt Ethan to investigate what really happened that night, a quest that reunites him with former friends and neighbors and leads him into the woods that surround Hemlock Circle. Woods where Billy claimed ghosts roamed and where a mysterious institute does clandestine research on a crumbling estate. The closer Ethan gets to the truth, the more he realizes that no place—be it quiet forest or suburban street—is completely safe. And that the past has a way of haunting the present.

Phantoms

Dean Koontz

1983 · 430 pages · 3 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

After finding one hundred and fifty people grotesquely dead in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California, officials cannot imagine anything as gruesome as the real reason for their death.

The Tomb

F. Paul Wilson

1984 · 365 pages · 2 reviews

Others: Positive

Hired to recover a mysterious stolen necklace, Jack Nelson, known as the Repairman, encounters a secret world of magic and winged monsters.

Death Sketch

Tobias Youngblood

2023 · 1 review

Others: Positive