Books like Cthulhusattva

Loved Cthulhusattva by Ruthanna Emrys? Here are 8 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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1Annihilation
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
A weird, unsettling expedition into an environment that resists understanding, with the same dread of the unknowable found in cosmic horror.
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2The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor D. LaValle
A retelling of Lovecraft's racist story 'The Horror at Red Hook' from the viewpoint of a character Lovecraft had dismissed.
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3The Colour Out of Space
The Colour Out of Space
H.P. Lovecraft
The short story that much of the later cosmic horror tradition, including this book's mythos, builds on.
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4The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
A slow, psychological horror novel in which an old house and its unseen forces slowly wear down the people inside it.
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5Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A gothic horror novel that uses a remote estate and a family's dark secrets to explore dread and inherited horror.
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6The Hellbound Heart
The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker
A short, dark horror novel about forbidden desire and a hidden realm that corrupts those who enter it.
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7The Ruins
The Ruins
Scott Smith
A contained, relentless horror novel about a group of travelers trapped by an unnatural threat in a remote place.
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8Ninth House
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
A dark fantasy about secret societies and the occult at an elite university, with a protagonist who sees things others cannot.
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