Claire Douglas has worked as a journalist for fifteen years writing features for women’s magazines and national newspapers, but she’s dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award, with her first novel, The Sisters. She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.
Douglas's new novel is Do Not Disturb.
At CrimeReads she tagged "five of [her] favorite psychological thrillers that use isolated locations to create that sense of menace and fear." One title on the list:
The Shining by Stephen KingRead about the other entries on the list.
Probably the most well-known of all isolated locations due to the bestselling book being made into a Stanley Kubrick film. This is one very creepy thriller/horror story. It has everything; a boy with psychic ability, a dad who is suffering from his own demons, a cold, empty hotel out of season, a remote and snowy landscape. This is a masterclass in using location as a character in its own right to create tension, horror and suspense.
The Shining is among Leslie Jamison's five best books to understand drinking, Jeff Somers's ten all-time scariest haunted house books and five books totally unlike their adaptations, Laura Purcell's five top gothic novels, Sam Riedel's six eeriest SFF stories inspired by true events, Joel Cunningham's top seven books featuring long winters, Ashley Brooke Roberts's seven best haunted house books, Jake Kerridge's top ten Stephen King books, Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders's top ten horror novels that are scarier than most movies, Charlie Higson's top ten horror books, and Monica Ali's best books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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