50 Books like Eden

This Wretched Valley

by Jenny Kiefer • 2024

A hidden rock wall lures four climbers into a Kentucky valley that digests everyone who enters.

3.25

13k+

🏔️ Sentient Landscape 🌲 Wilderness Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🧗 Doomed Expedition 🌀 Paranoia And Madness

This Wretched Valley 93%

A hidden rock wall lures four climbers into a Kentucky valley that digests everyone who enters.

by Jenny Kiefer 2024

3.25

13k+ ratings

🏔️ Sentient Landscape 🌲 Wilderness Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🧗 Doomed Expedition 🌀 Paranoia And Madness

Bird Box

by Josh Malerman • 2014

One look kills. A blindfolded mother rows a river, her children her only guides.

4.05

213k+

👽 Cosmic Horror 🙈 Sensory Deprivation 🖤 Maternal Sacrifice 🏠 Safe House Siege 🛶 River Journey

Bird Box 93%

One look kills. A blindfolded mother rows a river, her children her only guides.

by Josh Malerman 2014

4.05

213k+ ratings

👽 Cosmic Horror 🙈 Sensory Deprivation 🖤 Maternal Sacrifice 🏠 Safe House Siege 🛶 River Journey

Annihilation

by Jeff Vandermeer • 2014

A biologist enters a pristine, forbidden wilderness and breathes spores that change all she sees.

3.80

310k+

🔮 Weird Fiction 👁️ Cosmic Horror 🗺️ Expedition Gone Wrong 🦠 Body Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Annihilation 93%

A biologist enters a pristine, forbidden wilderness and breathes spores that change all she sees.

by Jeff Vandermeer 2014

3.80

310k+ ratings

🔮 Weird Fiction 👁️ Cosmic Horror 🗺️ Expedition Gone Wrong 🦠 Body Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

On the Bitter Horizon

by Abe Moss • 2022

A teenage healer kidnapped to a cursed mountain discovers the expedition's real prize is her.

4.57

345

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧙‍♀️ Witchy Horror 🫂 Found Family ⛰️ Expedition Gone Wrong 🩸 Hidden Lineage

On the Bitter Horizon 92%

A teenage healer kidnapped to a cursed mountain discovers the expedition's real prize is her.

by Abe Moss 2022

4.57

345 ratings

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧙‍♀️ Witchy Horror 🫂 Found Family ⛰️ Expedition Gone Wrong 🩸 Hidden Lineage

Girl in the Creek

by Wendy N. Wagner • 2025

In Faraday, women vanish. A travel writer hunts for her missing brother in the hungry woods.

3.20

2k+

🍄 Fungal Horror 🌱 Eco Horror 🔍 Missing Women 🫂 Found Family 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance

Girl in the Creek 92%

In Faraday, women vanish. A travel writer hunts for her missing brother in the hungry woods.

by Wendy N. Wagner 2025

3.20

2k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Horror 🌱 Eco Horror 🔍 Missing Women 🫂 Found Family 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance

From the Godless Abyss

by Abe Moss • 2022

Her blood cracked the Void. The monsters that poured through are hunting her now.

4.54

224

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🌀 Portal Fantasy 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 😰 Reluctant Hero 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

From the Godless Abyss 92%

Her blood cracked the Void. The monsters that poured through are hunting her now.

by Abe Moss 2022

4.54

224 ratings

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🌀 Portal Fantasy 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 😰 Reluctant Hero 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

Cell

by Stephen King • 2006

A signal drives cell phone users insane; one father crosses the burning world to save his son.

3.65

238k+

🧟 Survival Horror 🚗 Apocalyptic Road Trip 💻 Techno-Horror 🤝 Found Family 🧠 Collective Hive Mind

Cell 92%

A signal drives cell phone users insane; one father crosses the burning world to save his son.

by Stephen King 2006

3.65

238k+ ratings

🧟 Survival Horror 🚗 Apocalyptic Road Trip 💻 Techno-Horror 🤝 Found Family 🧠 Collective Hive Mind

Parasite

by Mira Grant • 2013

Her life-saving tapeworm is waking up. It wants control of her body and everyone else's.

3.68

19k+

🩸 Medical Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Outbreak 🔍 Lost Identity 🏢 Corporate Cover-Up 🧬 Hybrid Consciousness

Parasite 92%

Her life-saving tapeworm is waking up. It wants control of her body and everyone else's.

by Mira Grant 2013

3.68

19k+ ratings

🩸 Medical Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Outbreak 🔍 Lost Identity 🏢 Corporate Cover-Up 🧬 Hybrid Consciousness

Borne

by Jeff Vandermeer • 2017

A scavenger raises a biotech creature in a ruined city: her child, and a weapon.

3.93

42k+

🧬 Biotech Apocalypse 🌿 Weird Ecology 👩‍👧 Reluctant Motherhood 👾 Monster As Child 🧠 Unreliable Memory

Borne 92%

A scavenger raises a biotech creature in a ruined city: her child, and a weapon.

by Jeff Vandermeer 2017

3.93

42k+ ratings

🧬 Biotech Apocalypse 🌿 Weird Ecology 👩‍👧 Reluctant Motherhood 👾 Monster As Child 🧠 Unreliable Memory

Moon of the Crusted Snow

by Waubgeshig Rice • 2018

The power fails in a remote Anishinaabe community. A stranger arrives. The cities have fallen.

3.82

46k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🌾 Indigenous Futurism 😈 Charismatic Outsider 📉 Slow Burn Collapse ❄️ Atmospheric Winter

Moon of the Crusted Snow 92%

The power fails in a remote Anishinaabe community. A stranger arrives. The cities have fallen.

by Waubgeshig Rice 2018

3.82

46k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🌾 Indigenous Futurism 😈 Charismatic Outsider 📉 Slow Burn Collapse ❄️ Atmospheric Winter

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

by Clay McLeod Chapman • 2025

A liberal New Yorker races south as a viral possession consumes his parents through their screens.

3.27

15k+

🎭 Social Horror 📺 Media Possession 🦠 Memetic Virus 🏚️ Family Collapse ✝️ Failed Exorcism

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes 92%

A liberal New Yorker races south as a viral possession consumes his parents through their screens.

by Clay McLeod Chapman 2025

3.27

15k+ ratings

🎭 Social Horror 📺 Media Possession 🦠 Memetic Virus 🏚️ Family Collapse ✝️ Failed Exorcism

The Hive

by Ronald Malfi • 2026

A suburb builds a machine it cannot explain, and one boy's mind is the final part.

3.72

538

🏘️ Suburban Horror 🦠 Psychic Contagion 🐝 Hive Mind 👩‍👦 Protective Mother 🔮 Psychic Child

The Hive 92%

A suburb builds a machine it cannot explain, and one boy's mind is the final part.

by Ronald Malfi 2026

3.72

538 ratings

🏘️ Suburban Horror 🦠 Psychic Contagion 🐝 Hive Mind 👩‍👦 Protective Mother 🔮 Psychic Child

Ghosts

by Nicholas Sansbury Smith • 2017

Aboard humanity's last airship, survival means dropping into a monster-filled wasteland to scavenge.

4.25

9k+

🪂 Drop Team Survival 🏜️ Wasteland Survival ✈️ Airship Society 👹 Creature Feature 👑 Authoritarian Leader

Ghosts 92%

Aboard humanity's last airship, survival means dropping into a monster-filled wasteland to scavenge.

by Nicholas Sansbury Smith 2017

4.25

9k+ ratings

🪂 Drop Team Survival 🏜️ Wasteland Survival ✈️ Airship Society 👹 Creature Feature 👑 Authoritarian Leader

Silverskin

by Caitee Cooper • 2023

A ghostly attack in Alaska tears open a gate, releasing demons that feast on human despair.

4.26

🌲 Folk Horror 🏔️ Wilderness Horror 🖤 Grief Horror 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Trauma Bonding

Silverskin 92%

A ghostly attack in Alaska tears open a gate, releasing demons that feast on human despair.

by Caitee Cooper 2023

4.26

97 ratings

🌲 Folk Horror 🏔️ Wilderness Horror 🖤 Grief Horror 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Trauma Bonding

Gwen, in Green

by Hugh Zachary • 1974

A gentle wife on a ravaged island becomes the bloody instrument of the land's revenge.

3.33

460

🪴 Ecological Horror 🩸 Carnivorous Plants 🏝️ Isolated Island 🏚️ Haunted Land 🌀 Descent Into Madness

Gwen, in Green 92%

A gentle wife on a ravaged island becomes the bloody instrument of the land's revenge.

by Hugh Zachary 1974

3.33

460 ratings

🪴 Ecological Horror 🩸 Carnivorous Plants 🏝️ Isolated Island 🏚️ Haunted Land 🌀 Descent Into Madness

When the Wolf Comes Home

by Nat Cassidy • 2025

A waitress takes in a boy whose terror becomes real. A wolf is already at the door.

4.06

37k+

📚 Literary Horror 👹 Fear Made Flesh 🛡️ Reluctant Guardian 🔪 Monstrous Parent 🖤 Bleak Horror

When the Wolf Comes Home 91%

A waitress takes in a boy whose terror becomes real. A wolf is already at the door.

by Nat Cassidy 2025

4.06

37k+ ratings

📚 Literary Horror 👹 Fear Made Flesh 🛡️ Reluctant Guardian 🔪 Monstrous Parent 🖤 Bleak Horror

Intercepts

by T.J. Payne • 2019

His secret prisoners are senseless, psychic, and screaming. His teenage daughter can hear them now.

4.09

40k+

🏛️ Government Horror 👻 Psychic Haunting 🩸 Body Horror 🛡️ Parental Sacrifice ⛏️ Underground Facility

Intercepts 91%

His secret prisoners are senseless, psychic, and screaming. His teenage daughter can hear them now.

by T.J. Payne 2019

4.09

40k+ ratings

🏛️ Government Horror 👻 Psychic Haunting 🩸 Body Horror 🛡️ Parental Sacrifice ⛏️ Underground Facility

Sick Bastards

by Matt Shaw • 2014

A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.

3.54

4k+

💀 Extreme Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🖤 Incestuous Family 🧪 Government Experiment

Sick Bastards 91%

A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.

by Matt Shaw 2014

3.54

4k+ ratings

💀 Extreme Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🖤 Incestuous Family 🧪 Government Experiment

Amazonia

by James Rollins • 2002

Four years lost, a soldier emerges from the jungle with a regrown arm and lethal plague.

4.15

36k+

🏕️ Jungle Expedition 🌿 Eco Thriller 🧬 Biological Horror 🌀 Shamanic Wisdom 🗿 Ancient Tribe Secret

Amazonia 91%

Four years lost, a soldier emerges from the jungle with a regrown arm and lethal plague.

by James Rollins 2002

4.15

36k+ ratings

🏕️ Jungle Expedition 🌿 Eco Thriller 🧬 Biological Horror 🌀 Shamanic Wisdom 🗿 Ancient Tribe Secret

The Ritual

by Adam L.G. Nevill • 2011

Four friends, lost in a Scandinavian forest, realize something older than the trees is hunting them.

3.56

35k+

🏚️ Folk Horror 🩸 Survival Horror 🐐 Ancient Pagan God 🌲 Nordic Wilderness 💀 Cult Horror

The Ritual 91%

Four friends, lost in a Scandinavian forest, realize something older than the trees is hunting them.

by Adam L.G. Nevill 2011

3.56

35k+ ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 🩸 Survival Horror 🐐 Ancient Pagan God 🌲 Nordic Wilderness 💀 Cult Horror

The Kill Order

by James Dashner • 2012

A mind-shredding virus sweeps the wasteland. One immune child is the cure; her protectors go mad.

3.71

263k+

🦠 Viral Outbreak 😱 Survival Horror 👧 Immune Child 🤪 Descent Into Madness ☀️ Environmental Collapse

The Kill Order 91%

A mind-shredding virus sweeps the wasteland. One immune child is the cure; her protectors go mad.

by James Dashner 2012

3.71

263k+ ratings

🦠 Viral Outbreak 😱 Survival Horror 👧 Immune Child 🤪 Descent Into Madness ☀️ Environmental Collapse

Pines

by Blake Crouch • 2012

A Secret Service agent wakes with no memory in a perfect town where nobody ever leaves.

3.92

189k+

🏚️ Small Town Horror 🔍 Amnesiac Investigator 👁️ Dystopian Control 🌎 Post-Apocalyptic World 🦇 Creature Survival

Pines 91%

A Secret Service agent wakes with no memory in a perfect town where nobody ever leaves.

by Blake Crouch 2012

3.92

189k+ ratings

🏚️ Small Town Horror 🔍 Amnesiac Investigator 👁️ Dystopian Control 🌎 Post-Apocalyptic World 🦇 Creature Survival

The Bog Wife

by Kay Chronister • 2024

When their father dies, five siblings must revive an ancient bargain with a sickening bog.

3.57

16k+

🪵 Folk Horror 🕸️ Gothic Decay 🍄 Eco Horror 🌿 Haunted Land 🩸 Family Curse

The Bog Wife 91%

When their father dies, five siblings must revive an ancient bargain with a sickening bog.

by Kay Chronister 2024

3.57

16k+ ratings

🪵 Folk Horror 🕸️ Gothic Decay 🍄 Eco Horror 🌿 Haunted Land 🩸 Family Curse

The Passage

by Justin Cronin • 2010

A government experiment unleashes a vampiric plague, and a child may be the world's only hope.

4.05

224k+

🧛 Vampire Apocalypse 🏘️ Walled Colony 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 👧 Chosen Child 🧠 Hive Mind Creatures

The Passage 91%

A government experiment unleashes a vampiric plague, and a child may be the world's only hope.

by Justin Cronin 2010

4.05

224k+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Apocalypse 🏘️ Walled Colony 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 👧 Chosen Child 🧠 Hive Mind Creatures

Hemlock Island

by Kelley Armstrong • 2023

Blood-smeared walls pull her back to a private island where the dead refuse to rest.

3.44

13k+

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🏝️ Isolated Island 🌲 Haunted Landscape 👻 Cursed Inheritance

Hemlock Island 91%

Blood-smeared walls pull her back to a private island where the dead refuse to rest.

by Kelley Armstrong 2023

3.44

13k+ ratings

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🏝️ Isolated Island 🌲 Haunted Landscape 👻 Cursed Inheritance

Swarm

by Jennifer D. Lyle • 2023

Killer butterflies attack, an anxious teen barricades her home against winged predators and infected

3.65

2k+

🦋 Creature Horror 🦠 Outbreak Horror 😰 Anxious Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🛡️ Reluctant Hero

Swarm 91%

Killer butterflies attack, an anxious teen barricades her home against winged predators and infected

by Jennifer D. Lyle 2023

3.65

2k+ ratings

🦋 Creature Horror 🦠 Outbreak Horror 😰 Anxious Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🛡️ Reluctant Hero

As Our World Ends

by Jack Hunt • 2020

A fractured family navigates a lawless America after a cyberattack, racing to rescue their daughter.

4.18

1k+

🖥️ Grid-Down Survival 💔 Broken Family Bonds 👥 Ragtag Survivors 🤝 Reluctant Allies 🩸 Bleak Survival

As Our World Ends 91%

A fractured family navigates a lawless America after a cyberattack, racing to rescue their daughter.

by Jack Hunt 2020

4.18

1k+ ratings

🖥️ Grid-Down Survival 💔 Broken Family Bonds 👥 Ragtag Survivors 🤝 Reluctant Allies 🩸 Bleak Survival

Desperation

by Stephen King • 1996

Stranded in a ghost town, travelers discover their arresting officer is a vessel for ancient evil.

3.86

154k+

✝️ Religious Horror 👁️ Possession Horror ⛏️ Ancient Evil 🤝 Found Family 🏜️ Isolated Desert Town

Desperation 91%

Stranded in a ghost town, travelers discover their arresting officer is a vessel for ancient evil.

by Stephen King 1996

3.86

154k+ ratings

✝️ Religious Horror 👁️ Possession Horror ⛏️ Ancient Evil 🤝 Found Family 🏜️ Isolated Desert Town

Sundial

by Catriona Ward • 2022

Her child is dangerous. She returns to a desert compound where her family's violence began.

3.78

26k+

🏜️ Desert Gothic 🩸 Generational Horror 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Horror 👯 Twin Sisters 🔪 Dangerous Child

Sundial 91%

Her child is dangerous. She returns to a desert compound where her family's violence began.

by Catriona Ward 2022

3.78

26k+ ratings

🏜️ Desert Gothic 🩸 Generational Horror 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Horror 👯 Twin Sisters 🔪 Dangerous Child

The Girl in Red

by Christina Henry • 2019

Plague-ravaged America. Woman with axe. Grandmother's cabin. Woods hide worse than wolves.

3.71

20k+

🧺 Red Riding Hood Retelling 🔪 Survival Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🌲 Dark Fairytale 🦿 Disabled Protagonist

The Girl in Red 91%

Plague-ravaged America. Woman with axe. Grandmother's cabin. Woods hide worse than wolves.

by Christina Henry 2019

3.71

20k+ ratings

🧺 Red Riding Hood Retelling 🔪 Survival Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🌲 Dark Fairytale 🦿 Disabled Protagonist

Into the Dread Void

by Abe Moss • 2021

A foster child finds a family, only to watch a predatory light consume them from within.

4.10

1k+

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🌱 Coming Of Age Horror 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🤲 Empathic Abilities 🩸 Body Horror

Into the Dread Void 91%

A foster child finds a family, only to watch a predatory light consume them from within.

by Abe Moss 2021

4.10

1k+ ratings

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🌱 Coming Of Age Horror 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🤲 Empathic Abilities 🩸 Body Horror

The Deep

by Nick Cutter • 2015

Summoned to a trench station, a veterinarian discovers the abyss is sentient and feeds on memory.

3.41

43k+

🦑 Deep Sea Horror 🧬 Cosmic Body Horror 🥀 Estranged Brothers 🎭 Cosmic Tricksters 🖤 Grieving Father

The Deep 91%

Summoned to a trench station, a veterinarian discovers the abyss is sentient and feeds on memory.

by Nick Cutter 2015

3.41

43k+ ratings

🦑 Deep Sea Horror 🧬 Cosmic Body Horror 🥀 Estranged Brothers 🎭 Cosmic Tricksters 🖤 Grieving Father

Near the Bone

by Christina Henry • 2021

An isolated wife endures her husband's cruelty, but something worse is watching from the trees.

3.69

22k+

🩸 Survival Horror 👹 Creature Feature ⛓️ Abusive Marriage 🔒 Captivity Narrative 🔓 Reclaimed Identity

Near the Bone 91%

An isolated wife endures her husband's cruelty, but something worse is watching from the trees.

by Christina Henry 2021

3.69

22k+ ratings

🩸 Survival Horror 👹 Creature Feature ⛓️ Abusive Marriage 🔒 Captivity Narrative 🔓 Reclaimed Identity

We Call Them Witches

by India-Rose Bower • 2026

The world ended. A girl guards her family with folk magic, but survival steals her soul.

3.37

1k+

🏚️ Folk Horror 💕 Sapphic Romance 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🌾 Rural Apocalypse

We Call Them Witches 91%

The world ended. A girl guards her family with folk magic, but survival steals her soul.

by India-Rose Bower 2026

3.37

1k+ ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 💕 Sapphic Romance 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🌾 Rural Apocalypse

Congo

by Michael Crichton • 1980

An expedition hunts Congo diamonds and finds itself hunted by a new species of killer ape.

3.64

180k+

🖥️ Techno Thriller 🐒 Creature Feature 🐅 Hostile Wildlife 💼 Corporate Espionage 🏭 Technology Vs Nature

Congo 91%

An expedition hunts Congo diamonds and finds itself hunted by a new species of killer ape.

by Michael Crichton 1980

3.64

180k+ ratings

🖥️ Techno Thriller 🐒 Creature Feature 🐅 Hostile Wildlife 💼 Corporate Espionage 🏭 Technology Vs Nature

Mean Spirited

by Nick Roberts • 2024

A teacher adopts his dead student's dog, unaware it carries vengeful child spirits out for blood.

4.23

9k+

🏔️ Appalachian Horror 👻 Supernatural Thriller 🐕 Possessed Animal 👦 Child In Peril 🏘️ Small-Town Dread

Mean Spirited 91%

A teacher adopts his dead student's dog, unaware it carries vengeful child spirits out for blood.

by Nick Roberts 2024

4.23

9k+ ratings

🏔️ Appalachian Horror 👻 Supernatural Thriller 🐕 Possessed Animal 👦 Child In Peril 🏘️ Small-Town Dread

Dreamcatcher

by Stephen King • 2001

Four friends' hunting trip turns deadly when they shelter a lost man carrying an alien parasite.

3.66

187k+

🩸 Body Horror 👽 Alien Possession 🧠 Telepathic Bond 🦠 Alien Parasite 👦 Childhood Friends

Dreamcatcher 91%

Four friends' hunting trip turns deadly when they shelter a lost man carrying an alien parasite.

by Stephen King 2001

3.66

187k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 👽 Alien Possession 🧠 Telepathic Bond 🦠 Alien Parasite 👦 Childhood Friends

The Girl with All the Gifts

by M.R. Carey • 2014

Melanie is a genius child caged by soldiers. She loves her teacher. She is not human.

3.95

246k+

🍄 Fungal Apocalypse 🧠 Sentient Infected 📚 Teacher Protector 🖤 Sympathetic Monster ⚖️ Unethical Science

The Girl with All the Gifts 91%

Melanie is a genius child caged by soldiers. She loves her teacher. She is not human.

by M.R. Carey 2014

3.95

246k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Apocalypse 🧠 Sentient Infected 📚 Teacher Protector 🖤 Sympathetic Monster ⚖️ Unethical Science

The Gunslinger

by Stephen King • 1982

A gunslinger tracks a dark sorcerer through a dead world toward the tower binding all creation.

3.91

669k+

🤠 Weird Western 🏜️ Desert Wasteland 🎯 Obsessive Quest 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🏚️ Decaying World

The Gunslinger 91%

A gunslinger tracks a dark sorcerer through a dead world toward the tower binding all creation.

by Stephen King 1982

3.91

669k+ ratings

🤠 Weird Western 🏜️ Desert Wasteland 🎯 Obsessive Quest 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🏚️ Decaying World

The Tower

by Colin Wilson • 1987

Giant telepathic spiders rule the earth, and one boy's mind holds the power they cannot break.

4.02

509

🧠 Psychic Dystopia 🕷️ Giant Spiders 🏭 Engineered Society 🏛️ Ancient Technology 💀 Philosophical Horror

The Tower 91%

Giant telepathic spiders rule the earth, and one boy's mind holds the power they cannot break.

by Colin Wilson 1987

4.02

509 ratings

🧠 Psychic Dystopia 🕷️ Giant Spiders 🏭 Engineered Society 🏛️ Ancient Technology 💀 Philosophical Horror

Our Last Echoes

by Kate Alice Marshall • 2021

An orphan hunts for her missing mother on an Alaskan island where the mist hides doppelgangers.

3.49

4k+

👥 Doppelganger Horror 🏝️ Gothic Island 👩‍👧 Missing Mother 🏔️ Remote Alaska 🔬 Supernatural Research

Our Last Echoes 90%

An orphan hunts for her missing mother on an Alaskan island where the mist hides doppelgangers.

by Kate Alice Marshall 2021

3.49

4k+ ratings

👥 Doppelganger Horror 🏝️ Gothic Island 👩‍👧 Missing Mother 🏔️ Remote Alaska 🔬 Supernatural Research

Boy in the Box

by Marc E. Fitch • 2020

Four friends buried a boy in the Adirondacks. A decade later, the wilderness demands they return.

3.65

179

🏚️ Folk Horror 💀 Guilt And Atonement 🔪 Cover-Up Goes Wrong 👨‍👦 Sins Of The Father 🌲 Remote Wilderness

Boy in the Box 90%

Four friends buried a boy in the Adirondacks. A decade later, the wilderness demands they return.

by Marc E. Fitch 2020

3.65

179 ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 💀 Guilt And Atonement 🔪 Cover-Up Goes Wrong 👨‍👦 Sins Of The Father 🌲 Remote Wilderness

Commune

by Joshua Gayou • 2017

After a plague, a lone survivor leads three strangers across a dead America to Wyoming.

4.18

3k+

🦠 Plague Apocalypse 🌍 Grounded Apocalypse 🫂 Found Family 🗡️ Reluctant Leader 🏘️ Community Building

Commune 90%

After a plague, a lone survivor leads three strangers across a dead America to Wyoming.

by Joshua Gayou 2017

4.18

3k+ ratings

🦠 Plague Apocalypse 🌍 Grounded Apocalypse 🫂 Found Family 🗡️ Reluctant Leader 🏘️ Community Building

Dark Inside

by Jeyn Roberts • 2011

An ancient evil spreads after the quakes, turning people into killers. Four teens fight to survive.

3.92

9k+

🧟 Infected Apocalypse 👁️ Ancient Evil Unleashed 🗣️ Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere

Dark Inside 90%

An ancient evil spreads after the quakes, turning people into killers. Four teens fight to survive.

by Jeyn Roberts 2011

3.92

9k+ ratings

🧟 Infected Apocalypse 👁️ Ancient Evil Unleashed 🗣️ Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere

Star Wars

by Joe Schreiber • 2010

A Sith experiment spawns a zombie plague; a captured Jedi and her psychic orchid are the only cure.

3.46

9k+

🧟 Zombie Outbreak 🖤 Space Gothic 🌱 Sentient Plants 🔪 Survival Horror ❄️ Frozen World

Star Wars 90%

A Sith experiment spawns a zombie plague; a captured Jedi and her psychic orchid are the only cure.

by Joe Schreiber 2010

3.46

9k+ ratings

🧟 Zombie Outbreak 🖤 Space Gothic 🌱 Sentient Plants 🔪 Survival Horror ❄️ Frozen World

I Am Behind You

by John Ajvide Lindqvist • 2014

Campers wake to a world erased: no sun, no roads, only grass stretching forever.

3.36

5k+

🚪 Liminal Space 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👧 Inhuman Child 🩸 Body Horror

I Am Behind You 90%

Campers wake to a world erased: no sun, no roads, only grass stretching forever.

by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2014

3.36

5k+ ratings

🚪 Liminal Space 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👧 Inhuman Child 🩸 Body Horror

13 Months Haunted

by Jimmy Juliano • 2025

A small-town librarian opens a bullied student's lethal file and must never be alone.

3.63

3k+

💻 Tech Horror 🎬 Cursed Media 🦠 Viral Curse 🕯️ Isolated Outcast 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

13 Months Haunted 90%

A small-town librarian opens a bullied student's lethal file and must never be alone.

by Jimmy Juliano 2025

3.63

3k+ ratings

💻 Tech Horror 🎬 Cursed Media 🦠 Viral Curse 🕯️ Isolated Outcast 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

Phyl-Undhu

by Nick Land • 2014

A daughter's game is a doorway to cosmic extinction. Her parents enter to bring her back.

3.56

284

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Philosophical Horror 📖 Forbidden Knowledge 💻 Simulated Reality 💔 Family Disintegration

Phyl-Undhu 90%

A daughter's game is a doorway to cosmic extinction. Her parents enter to bring her back.

by Nick Land 2014

3.56

284 ratings

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Philosophical Horror 📖 Forbidden Knowledge 💻 Simulated Reality 💔 Family Disintegration

The Queen

by Nick Cutter • 2024

Texts from her missing best friend lure a teen into a country club turned wasp hive.

3.53

8k+

🫀 Body Horror 🐝 Insect Horror 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🖤 Toxic Friendship 🔪 Revenge Narrative

The Queen 90%

Texts from her missing best friend lure a teen into a country club turned wasp hive.

by Nick Cutter 2024

3.53

8k+ ratings

🫀 Body Horror 🐝 Insect Horror 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🖤 Toxic Friendship 🔪 Revenge Narrative

Rest Stop

by Nat Cassidy • 2024

A Jewish bassist locked in a gas station bathroom faces a googly-eyed killer's sadistic games.

3.62

9k+

👽 Cosmic Horror 🚪 Locked Room Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🩸 Generational Trauma 🎭 Killer Plays Games

Rest Stop 90%

A Jewish bassist locked in a gas station bathroom faces a googly-eyed killer's sadistic games.

by Nat Cassidy 2024

3.62

9k+ ratings

👽 Cosmic Horror 🚪 Locked Room Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🩸 Generational Trauma 🎭 Killer Plays Games

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