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Description: Speculative fiction/horror with a small town or village setting. Thumbs up or add those books you would recommend. Thumbs down books you wouldn't recommend.

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1

The Stepford Wives

3,085 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Stephen King

22,075 members

410 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Stephen King

16,435 members

295 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Stephen King

9,644 members

106 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Thomas Tryon

1,146 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: dara85, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

by Stephen King

10,899 members

123 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

7

by Michael Flynn

1,112 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

8

Air: Or, Have Not Have

867 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

9

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,441 members

297 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

10

by Stephen King

10,699 members

122 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

11

by Richard Bachman

6,676 members

64 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

12

Practical Demonkeeping

by Christopher Moore

4,077 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

13

Cycle of the Werewolf

by Stephen King

3,247 members

74 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

14

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

by Christopher Moore

3,230 members

82 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

15

Welcome to Night Vale

2,774 members

131 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

16

The Winter People

by Jennifer McMahon

2,254 members

187 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

17

2,166 members

141 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

18

by Blake Crouch

2,073 members

140 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

19

Floating Dragon

by Peter Straub

1,412 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

20

by Thomas Tryon

1,373 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

21

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

by Stephen Graham Jones

1,291 members

52 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

22

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

1,250 members

73 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

23

Universal Harvester

by John Darnielle

991 members

61 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

24

by Andrew Michael Hurley

849 members

49 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

25

by Ottessa Moshfegh

795 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

26

Those Across the River

by Christopher Buehlman

682 members

75 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington
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27

by Tananarive Due

632 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

28

by Bentley Little

606 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

29

A Cosmology of Monsters

by Shaun Hamill

479 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

30

The Silent Land

by Graham Joyce

467 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

31

449 members

14 reviews

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

435 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

33

by Josh Malerman

399 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

34

Little Heaven: A Novel

by Craig Davidson

394 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

35

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

by Margaret Killjoy

352 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

36

Cold Moon Over Babylon

by Michael McDowell

318 members

13 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

37

House of Echoes

by Brendan Duffy

272 members

47 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

38

by Kathleen Jennings

238 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

39

The Bright Lands

184 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Alexis Schaitkin

177 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

41

When We Were Animals

by Joshua Gaylord

146 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

42

Tinfoil Butterfly

by Rachel Eve Moulton

131 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

43

Cast a Cold Eye

114 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

44

by Michael Rowe

92 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

45

The Blade Between

by Sam J. Miller

92 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

by William W. Johnstone

39 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

by S. P. Miskowski

18 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

48

Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames

by Stefan Kiesbye

13 members

3.2

Member: WhatUsername

49

by Stephen King

11,715 members

454 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington,ManWithAnAgenda

About This List

Started: sturlington
July 2013
Type: Unnumbered

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