Extollager
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James Howard Kunstler's nonfiction The Long Emergency was a bit worrying. But he seems to have been wrong about peak oil.
The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell . It's about an English town called Moonwell which a has an well with an even more ancient horror living below in the darkness. I know it sounds pretty basic, but trust me It's anything but. It's simple one of the best epic horror novels ever written and when you get into it, you understand why.
I'd probably find it tame now but the first one was Agatha Christie's "Hound of Death."
I don't read horror, because I'm too much of a scaredy-pants, but I love Agatha Christie, and my mum had a huge collection. Some of her short stories, in particular, are absolutely freaky.
Also, when I was a small child, I had a book about Nessie, on the cover of which a very sinister grey-black Nessie was rising out of the water next to two people in a very small boat. I still have a lingering fear of sea monsters - which is one of the better phobias to have, as I'm unlikely to run into many of them.
I don't know, Anya. I would...
I find she's very good at creating a creepy atmosphere, even in her novels, where you know it's a live, human killer. Like the Tommy and Tuppence one with the house, or some of her Poirot ones.