[ SECRET POST #4923 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4923 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[Legend of the White Snake]


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03.
[Komi Can't Communicate]


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04.
[The Elm-Chanted Forest]


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05.
(Lucifer, Supernatural)


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06.
[Wheel of Time]


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07.
[Queer Eye]


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08.
[Criminal Minds]






















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 49 secrets from Secret Submission Post #705.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[sparklywalls]

Hello - I'm not OP but I have a few recs, some of which I mentioned above!

Laura Purcell: The Silent Companions - straight forward haunted house set across two historical eras.

Michelle Paver: Dark Matter - a sinister ghost story set in the Arctic during winter. Paver also has a haunted house book Wakenhyrst which I found enjoyable enough. Dark Matter is certainly the scarier of the two.

D.M Pulley - No-one's Home. Not really supernatural in the end but it's implied (at first.) It's another multi-generational tale of families buying a specific house that seems to be nothing but bad luck.

Shani Struthers - The Venetian - a couple trying to have a romantic getaway to heal a rift end up illegally on the island of Poveglia exploring a creepy abandoned asylum.

Then there's a few "classics" that you may have already read like The Haunting of Hill House, The Woman in Black, The Turn of the Screw etc.

And if you don't mind "really fucking weird" I read something completely out there by a Scottish author recently. Dave Watson - In the Devil's Name. It takes the legend of Sawney Beane (rumoured cannibal family) but gets really strange with an actual malevolent entity basically killing an entire town. It's extremely violently graphic so might not be to everyone's tastes but it's definitely still creepy as well.

EDIT: I can't BELIEVE I forgot The Terror by Dan Simmons. It's really long but definitely worth it. It's based on a real life Arctic expedition that disappeared and there's a ghostly element to it (but not in the way you'd expect.)

[(Anonymous)]

OMG Thank you~! I’m off to see if any of these are on Libby.

[sparklywalls]

Hopefully you’ll find something/something to your tastes. I’d also recommend branching out to stuff that isn’t necessarily ghostly but has the same sort of Gothic aesthetic. Books like ‘Rebecca’ spring to mind as the haunting isn’t an actual ghost but a memory or reputation hanging over the protagonist.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Ooh, thanks, I'll be keeping this list in mind, too! That Dark Matter one sounds particularly intriguing.

[sparklywalls]

It’s probably my favourite on that list. Most of the book is one character by himself in perpetual darkness and he experiences the worst hauntings then. It’s not something you want to read before you go to bed!