Eerie, unsettling books

Eerie is different from scary. It is the feeling that something is slightly off: the atmosphere of a gothic house, a village that is too quiet, a narrator you shouldn't trust.

These books read as eerie overall. Plenty are horror, but not all — the mood turns up in literary fiction and fantasy too.

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