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  1. 1The ritual (2012)The ritual (2012) 2.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2012Four old friends take a shortcut through the Swedish wilderness and stumble on the remains of rites to something that still moves among the trees. The rough ground wears them down long before they understand what’s following them. Start here if you want the fear of getting lost to do as much work…0
  2. 2The Loney (2014)The Loney (2014) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2014Two brothers join an Easter pilgrimage to a shrine on the Lancashire coast, where older rites persist on the tidal island of Coldbarrow. The tides give this slow-burn novel a practical source of dread: access to the island depends on the water. The brothers have only a partial view of what the…0
  3. 3The Fisherman (2016)The Fisherman (2016) 8.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2016Abe and Dan have taken up fishing together after losing their wives. Near the Ashokan Reservoir in upstate New York, they hear that Dutchman’s Creek might offer a way to undo those losses. Much of the book’s pleasure is in the long tale behind that rumor and how it changes the meaning of a morning…0
  4. 4The Hill in the Dark Grove (2026)The Hill in the Dark Grove (2026)Published Jan 1, 2026When Carwyn finds a stone head on his family’s sheep farm in Snowdonia, he spends more and more time digging for the structure it came from. Rhian still has sheep to tend and creditors to answer. The difference between what each of them needs from the same piece of land gives the older, buried…0
  5. 5Harvest HomeHarvest HomeThe Constantines move from the city to a New England farming village and take an invitation to its harvest festival as a sign they’re being accepted. Tryon builds the unease out of fieldwork, neighborly hospitality, and the knowledge the village keeps to itself. Read it for a community that has…0
  6. 6The Willows (2002)The Willows (2002) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2002Two canoeists take shelter from high water and wind on an island in the Danube, then discover their canoe is damaged. Blackwood makes it hard to say where the ordinary movement of water and willow branches ends and something stranger begins. This short classic is the quietest choice here if you…0
  7. 7Water Shall Refuse Them (2019)Water Shall Refuse Them (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019During the 1976 heat wave, sixteen-year-old Nif moves with her grieving family to a village on the Welsh border. She gathers talismans from the drought-struck land and invents her own witchcraft, then meets a boy with rites of his own. The drought makes every search feel exposed and gives this…0
  8. 8Slewfoot (2021)Slewfoot (2021) 7.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2021In seventeenth-century Connecticut, a widow named Abitha turns to the spirit that has awakened in the woods beyond her Puritan village. The people and beings who live on either side of that boundary give the spirit very different names. Brom gives Abitha a reason to risk the woods, then lets her…0
  9. 9The boatman's daughter (2020)The boatman's daughter (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Miranda Crabtree knows the bayou well enough to run contraband for a preacher while shielding an old witch and a child. A new demand upsets the arrangement that lets her keep them safe. The water is Miranda’s livelihood and her way between people with competing claims on her, which gives even a…0
  10. 10This wretched valley (2024)This wretched valley (2024)Published Jan 1, 2024Dylan heads into the Kentucky woods to make the first ascent of an untouched cliff. Months later, investigators find three bodies and no sign of her. Kiefer writes with a climber’s eye for the terrain and draws on Appalachian folklore to make the valley’s dangers increasingly difficult to read.…0