And the reason I know that is because last year I read A Fig for All the Devils. And though that book was shocking and dark, it was also very heartwarming.
Ian Gubeli 125K subscribers · Oct 8, 2026
SCARY Books I Want To Read (Because I Hate Myself)
William Sloane's writing is unsettling. It is slow burn. It goes at its own pace and it takes you along for the ride in such an obsessing way.
I have already read certain portions of what I just described to you and I can say without a shadow of a doubt Clive Barker has had me from the very beginning. He has a way of just penetrating straight through my curiosity, putting his hooks into my imagination and not letting me go.
It was like Blake Crouch on crack. Riveting and scary. It has everything that horror's good at.



