🏷️ Atmospheric World
7 entries tagged with this trope
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
Piranesi lives in a House of infinite halls filled with statues and tides. He knows every room, every skeleton, every bird. But something is very wrong with his world. Hauntingly beautiful.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Noemí goes to check on her cousin in a decaying English mansion in 1950s Mexico. The house has mushrooms on the walls, a creepy patriarch, and something very wrong in the soil.
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones · 2020
Four Native American men are haunted by something they did as young hunters. A transgression against the elk is coming back for all of them. Literary horror at its finest.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Whatever walked in Hill House, walked alone. Four people spend a summer investigating a supposedly haunted mansion. The horror is in what you're not sure you saw. The original.
Horrid
Katrina Leno · 2020
After her father dies, Jane and her mom move into an old family house in Maine. A house full of books. Books that weren't there before. Books that seem to multiply. YA gothic at its creepiest.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer · 2014
Four women enter Area X, a quarantined zone where nature has gone wrong. What they find defies biology, physics, and sanity. The less you know going in, the better.
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell · 2020
The story of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, who died at 11 and inspired Hamlet. But this isn't Shakespeare's story — it's Agnes's, his wife. A meditation on grief and art that is achingly precise.