Is horror books not for me?
Good morning !
If you remember correctly, while in #blogoween I had done a similar post before; However i’d want to come back to this as upon posting the first one I didn’t had read any of that genre – while now I did !
So let’s converse about horror books, and if I think it’s a genre I wanna read more of.
Firstly, how I saw the “horror” genre as a whole was mainly a book who’s supposed to have me scared. Anything with a spooky vibe that has me at the end of my seat – with most likely something paranormal going on..
However, with the three books that I’ve tried … I got more of a “gore-y” type of horror. After much consideration, I suppose this genre of books shall correlate with the horror movie umbrella: some gore, paranormal, or even more parody-like.
I’m not sure if I just hasn’t got lucky in my choice of horror books, but I got quite the deception .. One I had DNF, while the other two got 3/3.5 stars – none of them scared me at all; I felt the spooky atmosphere at time but that was it. I even jumped the “YA” gate, thinking “ah well maybe this shall be easier..” but nope. I just expected more.
Was it because two of them fell under the “historical” genre too, which you’d know isn’t something I fancy? All three of the books attracted me as it implied a haunted house; which I just LOVE thoses ghost stories, specially if it’s real experiences.
- «The general theory of haunting», which was 6 people stuck in a haunted manor because of a snowstorm, having “wierd” stuff happening.
- «The house by the cemetary», which is about a real haunted house by a cemetary that the county decide they shall turn into an October haunting house attraction.
- «Fountain Dead», about a teenager’s family moving in a new house, which turns out to be haunted. Past & present events all having connexions within each other.
Some of thoses was also confusing me with time-jumping all the time, along with english words too ahead in level for me to understand. I expected more spookyness, more “unspoken” creatures.. something !
I think the fact that dragged me down the most is that the description looked nice ! It implied something I KNOW I love .. and it completely turned in a bad way. Three out of three – I want to tell myself it was really just bad luck of my part, but also kind of wanna leave that genre alone and never go back ..
Now let’s talk !;
° Are you an horror book lover, or more “eh” about it?
° Do most horror books falls on horror as they are gore?
° Basing yourself on my goodread and reviews, do you have a rec for me of something i’d have a good chance of enjoying ?
I never thought that horror books could actually creep me out but then I read Dracula and quickly reassessed my entire self-evaluation bc that book=freaky.
Great post! 💛
Good to hear!! Hopefully i’ll find a good one 🙂
I have some problems with this genre, too! I have discovered after some trials and errors, that I love horror short stories, Lovecratf is one of my favorite authors and also Edgar Allan Poe, but I have a lot of problems with horror novels, usually I found them boring. Palin and simple. I have tried to read different authors and different sub-genres, but in the end, I am bored by all of them!
aww sorry to hear !
but hey, atleast you found out what worked and what doesn’t..
I realized after reading your post that I too have certain expectations as to what is considered horror. I love ghost stories and haunted houses, too. Gore is not my thing but I do love paranormal creatures! Thanks Kristina! ♥️♥️
youll probably find one you like when your enot looking for it and realise as youre readingit wait this is horror! :’)
Hopefully! Ahah
I think that there is so much variety within the horror genre that it’s often hard to know how much gore to expect before starting a book. I’m a fan of several horror authors (Stephen King especially) but I must admit that I am also sometimes disappointed with the genre. Hope you find a horror book that you enjoy soon!
I need to give him a chance … however his books can be quite MASSIVE xD im.. scared.. ahah
I used to love horror! Now I’m too weak for it xD try Pet Sematary by Stephen King if you want to be spooked 🙂
Is it one of his huge ones? Thoses has be scared just by the lenght of them ahahag
Not as big as It, but I guess all of his books are kind of huge xD
House by the Cemetery was kind of garbage, please don’t judge the genre by that one hahaha! If you want some scary situations and spooky supernatural horror, I recommend anything by Jonathan Janz
the genre is hit or miss, admittedly. There are a lot of categories and it takes a while to find books of interest. I hope you give it another chance!
Ahaha ill see if something attracts me ! Im probly gonna take a break for a while though xD I need to rebranch myself in french books. I find myself lost in english ones way too often of my liking ..