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Polar Horror
Horror stories set in the Arctic or Antarctic. Because freezing cold + spooky stuff is the scariest genre of all.
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The Terror
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At the Mountains of Madness
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Frankenstein
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Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
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Who Goes There?
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The Wendigo
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3.80 avg rating — 7,786 ratings
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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The Ritual
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Adam L.G. Nevill (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 31,991 ratings
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The Thing
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4.04 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
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I Remember You
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3.82 avg rating — 13,077 ratings
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Good Morning, Midnight
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Lily Brooks-Dalton (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 22,958 ratings
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The Yeti
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Mike Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Snowblind
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Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author)
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Terminal Freeze (Jeremy Logan, #2)
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Let the Right One In
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The Captain of the Polestar
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3.57 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
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3.69 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
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Deception Point
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 693,454 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World
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The Curse of the Wendigo (The Monstrumologist, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 7,944 ratings
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All the White Spaces
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Ally Wilkes (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,230 ratings
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
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Buddy Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 2,869 ratings
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
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Buddy Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 3,576 ratings
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The Monster from Earth's End
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3.34 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Colony
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Benjamin Cross (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 764 ratings
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The Day is Dark (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #4)
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3.69 avg rating — 4,721 ratings
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H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 1
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4.25 avg rating — 3,202 ratings
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Wendigo
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Vaughn C. Hardacker (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Hunger: die letzte Reise
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Alma Katsu (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 33,865 ratings
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Echo
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Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 7,541 ratings
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Blood and Ice
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Robert Masello (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 2,145 ratings
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H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 2
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Gou Tanabe (Illustrator)
4.37 avg rating — 2,375 ratings
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Carnivore
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3.10 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The White Darkness
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3.48 avg rating — 4,376 ratings
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An Antarctic Mystery
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3.61 avg rating — 2,279 ratings
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30 Days of Night
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3.79 avg rating — 20,892 ratings
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Melt Zone (Robert Spire #3)
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Simon Rosser (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Ancestor
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Scott Sigler (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 7,130 ratings
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Snowpocalypse: Tales of the End of the World
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Clint Collins (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Heller's Tale: an Antarctic Novella
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David Pablo Cohn (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Winter Over
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Matthew Iden (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 7,984 ratings
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Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom
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3.39 avg rating — 109 ratings
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With Scott Before the Mast: These are the Journals of Francis Davies Leading Shipwright RN when on board Captain Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition
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4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Killer
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Peter Tonkin (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 343 ratings
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White Space
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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My Wife's Promise
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Haunting in the Arctic
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C.J. Cooke (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 6,040 ratings
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Midsummer
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Matthew Costello (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Subhuman (Unit 51, #1)
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Michael McBride (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 2,113 ratings
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The Dark: Antarktis-Thriller
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Emma Haughton (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 5,002 ratings
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White
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Tim Lebbon (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Everland
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3.70 avg rating — 746 ratings
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White and Other Tales of Ruin
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Tim Lebbon (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 147 ratings
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No One Thinks of Greenland
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3.50 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Erebus
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4.12 avg rating — 340 ratings
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A Blizzard of Polar Bears (Alex Carter, #2)
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Alice Henderson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 3,374 ratings
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White Fangs (The Secret Journeys of Jack London, #3)
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Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 94,
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels
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4.46 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Blood and Ice
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Lois H. Gresh (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 92,
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The Arctic Fury
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Greer Macallister (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 9,218 ratings
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