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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

3,539 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Stephen King

25,898 members

464 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Stephen King

19,074 members

337 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Stephen King

11,097 members

114 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Thomas Tryon

1,338 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: dara85, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

by Stephen King

12,551 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

7

by Michael Flynn

1,209 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

8

Air: Or, Have Not Have

927 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

9

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

13,238 members

337 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

10

by Stephen King

12,155 members

138 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

11

by Richard Bachman

7,632 members

70 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

12

Practical Demonkeeping

by Christopher Moore

4,363 members

114 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

13

Cycle of the Werewolf

by Stephen King

3,713 members

90 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

14

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

by Christopher Moore

3,440 members

90 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

15

Welcome to Night Vale

3,411 members

150 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

16

by Blake Crouch

2,785 members

161 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

17

The Winter People

by Jennifer McMahon

2,773 members

206 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

18

2,435 members

152 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

19

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

by Stephen Graham Jones

2,254 members

77 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

20

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

1,694 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

21

Floating Dragon

by Peter Straub

1,586 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

22

by Thomas Tryon

1,567 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

23

by Ottessa Moshfegh

1,532 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

24

Universal Harvester: A Novel

by John Darnielle

1,217 members

66 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

25

by Andrew Michael Hurley

1,023 members

53 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

26

Those Across the River

by Christopher Buehlman

841 members

86 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington
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27

by Tananarive Due

809 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

28

by Bentley Little

678 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

29

A Cosmology of Monsters

by Shaun Hamill

642 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

30

620 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

31

Little Heaven: A Novel

555 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

32

548 members

16 reviews

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Silent Land

by Graham Joyce

494 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

34

by Josh Malerman

489 members

32 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

35

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

by Margaret Killjoy

477 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

36

Cold Moon Over Babylon

by Michael McDowell

400 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

37

by Kathleen Jennings

303 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

38

House of Echoes

by Brendan Duffy

302 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

39

Elsewhere: A Novel

by Alexis Schaitkin

244 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

40

The Bright Lands: A Novel

228 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel

by Rachel Eve Moulton

183 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

42

When We Were Animals

by Joshua Gaylord

165 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

43

Cast a Cold Eye

131 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

44

The Blade Between

by Sam J. Miller

127 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Michael Rowe

116 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

46

by William W. Johnstone

55 members

3 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

by S. P. Miskowski

20 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sturlington

48

Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames

by Stefan Kiesbye

15 members

3.2

Member: WhatUsername

49

by Stephen King

13,641 members

486 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington,ManWithAnAgenda

About This List

Started: sturlington
July 2013
Type: Unnumbered

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