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May 30, 2017 04:31PM

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Do you like Lovecraftian cults/horror? If so That Which Should Not Be is really good. I've got the sequel lined up to read next.
Laird Barron's The Croning is really good and some of his short story collections have some great cult-ish stories in them: Occultation and Other Stories, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories, and The Imago Sequence and Other Stories. Once again, more Lovecraftian than maybe what you're looking for.
I also really liked Jonathan Janz's The Nightmare Girl.
Looking forward to seeing some great suggestions pop up here!

The Club Dumas has cults and devil worship and stuff. It's the book Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp was based on.
Melissa, i have no books to suggest but I'm going to steal the ones suggested! cults fascinate me. that fine line from doing good to going horribly wrong, that just intrigues me. real life cults, i mean but i like the fictional ones, too.





These two books were really good and scary! I just finished reading Angel Manor and it was excellent and Covenant was so spooky when I read it about 2 years ago that it gave me the willies for awhile.

Oh, and sidenote (which will probably get me kicked out of this group haha): I'm really not that big on Lovecraftian horror, so any cult stories by or influenced by him are really not my cup of tea.
I don't know if anyone has played the game Outlast 2, or watched the segment called 'Safe Haven' from V/H/S 2, but those are two examples of cults I'd LOVE to find in fictional books.

These novels have to be out there, why are they so hard to find?


This. Great book!

Bethany's Sin
The Vagrants
Covenant
The Jack in the Green
The Doorkeepers
Sound of Midnight
The Houngan

The Vagrants

Covenant

The Jack in the Green

The Doorkeepers

Sound of Midnight

The Houngan

Books mentioned in this topic
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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories (other topics)
The Doorkeepers (other topics)
The Houngan (other topics)
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