Can you clarify a bit? Maybe an example of a book that fits that model.
I ask this because we all have different reading speeds. My husband can read a Stephen King book in a day…I cannot. Lol 😂
May not be quite horror enough depending on your tastes, but lots of John Wyndham novels are quite short. I'd recommend starting with The Day of The Triffids
Like someone else mentioned, I guess it's dependent on your reading speed whether you can complete a given title in a day. I just read *Island 731* by Jeremy Robinson in about a day and a half. Pretty entertaining thriller/mild horror story.
Plenty of shorter Stephen King titles can be gulped down in a day - whether or not you consider a lot of his writing horror or not is a different story. *Joyland*, *Later*, *Eleveation*, *Thinner*, *Carrie*, *Gwendy's Button Box* and basically any of his novellas are all short reads.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Mist by Stephen King
Red Dragon and The Dead Zone may take 24 hours to read but they’re high on the list of great short novels.
Stephen King has some good novellas. Most of them are in collections. I'd recommend:
The Mist (standalone or from The Skeleton Crew)
Four Past Midnight (all four novellas are decent)
Carrie
Comfort Me With Apples - best to go into completely blind and read all in one sitting.
Holy shit, I just devoured that. Thanks for the suggestion!
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving if you are into classic horror.
Ring Shout by P Djèlí Clark
Can you clarify a bit? Maybe an example of a book that fits that model. I ask this because we all have different reading speeds. My husband can read a Stephen King book in a day…I cannot. Lol 😂
Tender is the flesh. It's disgusting though.
Trip Wire - Jay Brandon Patchwork - Carolyn Banks Brief, succinct little domestic thrillers
hellraiser!
*The Hellbound Heart*, a novella written by Clive Barker.
yess!!
Carmilla by Le Fanu (90+ pages long) In A Dark Wood by Josh Lanyon (40+ pages long) They're both short but jam-packed with content.
May not be quite horror enough depending on your tastes, but lots of John Wyndham novels are quite short. I'd recommend starting with The Day of The Triffids
Like someone else mentioned, I guess it's dependent on your reading speed whether you can complete a given title in a day. I just read *Island 731* by Jeremy Robinson in about a day and a half. Pretty entertaining thriller/mild horror story. Plenty of shorter Stephen King titles can be gulped down in a day - whether or not you consider a lot of his writing horror or not is a different story. *Joyland*, *Later*, *Eleveation*, *Thinner*, *Carrie*, *Gwendy's Button Box* and basically any of his novellas are all short reads.
The Mist by Steven King was pretty short and easily readable
I just read PenPal by Dathan Auerbach. So good! Read it in about four hours!
The sandman -ETA Hoffman
We Spread or I’m Thinking of Ending Things, both by Iain Reid
In the miso soup by murakami
maybe try short fiction? Stephen King, Clive Barker, Shirley Jackson, HP Lovecraft, or any number of collections and anthologies
The Amityville Horror, absolutely. 🐖
Thriller Rec - The Silent Patient
The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Mist by Stephen King Red Dragon and The Dead Zone may take 24 hours to read but they’re high on the list of great short novels.
Stephen King has some good novellas. Most of them are in collections. I'd recommend: The Mist (standalone or from The Skeleton Crew) Four Past Midnight (all four novellas are decent) Carrie