Genre: Horror (14 books)

Deliverance

James Dickey

Before: It unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose. The whole land was very tense until we put our four steins on its corners and laid the river out to run for us through the mountains 150 miles north.

The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks

I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped.

Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock

Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln, had the honour to be the seat of Christopher Glowry, Esquire.

Hogg

Samuel R. Delany