If you loved
Books like Hex
A claustrophobic descent into communal madness where modern technology fails to contain an ancient, festering evil. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Hex.
- dread-soaked
- claustrophobic
- paranoid
- oppressive
- 01
Abandon
Blake Crouch
A chilling descent into a frozen, isolated ghost town where history's darkest secrets refuse to stay buried.
- 02
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Rivka Galchen
A wry, darkly comic, and quietly devastating portrait of an eccentric woman caught in the absurd machinery of a seventeenth-century witch hunt.
- 03
Year of the Witching
Alexis Henderson
A claustrophobic, blood-soaked descent into a dark wood where female rage blooms into terrifying power.
- 04
The Croning
Laird Barron
A dread-soaked descent into the terrifying shadows that lurk just beyond the comforting firelight of a seemingly normal life.
- 05
Harrow County, Vol. 1
Cullen Bunn
A lush, watercolor nightmare steeped in Southern Gothic folklore and the terrifying realization of who you truly are.
- 06
Slewfoot
Brom
A dark, gothic descent into colonial paranoia where an outcast's alliance with an ancient spirit ignites a terrifying and triumphant vengeance.
- 07
We Ride Upon Sticks
Quan Barry
A fierce, supernatural exploration of female friendship forged in the crucible of competitive team sports.
- 08
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
A dark, modern fairy tale that transforms the very real anxieties of new parenthood into a terrifying, magical odyssey through the hidden realms of New York City.
- 09
The Lesser Dead
Christopher Buehlman
A gritty, unapologetic plunge into the grimy, nocturnal underworld of 1970s New York, where even the monsters have something to fear.
- 10
The hangman's daughter
Oliver Pötzsch
A dread-soaked historical thriller where reason races against mounting paranoia in a shadowy seventeenth-century Bavarian town.
- 11
The Black Witch
Laurie Forest
A tense, atmospheric journey through a treacherous magical university where an unmagical girl must unlearn her prejudices to survive.
- 12
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix
A sweltering, blood-soaked slice of 1970s feminist horror where desperate girls turn to dark magic to reclaim their stolen futures.
