#people act like fucking Stephen king is the pinnacle? like omg?

[bauliya]

horror recommendations if you’re sick of mcu-fied let’s save the world horror (not v niche because I’m a scaredy cat but they’re my faves <3)

junji ito (comics)

shirley jackson (short stories and novels)

the lurking fear by hp lovecraft (short story)

his house (2020 UK film)

the cipher by kathe koja (novel)

incantation (2022 South Korean film)

the tower by marghatina laski (short story)

hurricane season by fernanda melchor (2017 novel)

skin and other stories by roald dahl (short story collection. haven’t seen the netflix adaptation bcs I hate cumberbatch’s face)

midnight mass (netflix series)

beloved by toni morrison (novel and film)

seven moons of maali almeida (2022 novel)

makdi (2002 Hindi film)

ONLY season one of the white vault (podcast)

my most unpopular stranger things related but not stranger things exclusive opinion is that i am very bored with how almost every story that has paranormal or scifi elements eventually evolves into a story about stopping the end of the world. and i do know that apocalypse media has its enjoyers however i am not one of them and i very rarely choose to consume it so you see why it would exhaust me that so often all my horror shows and podcasts turn into an apocalypse thing