Thursday, October 29, 2026

Five horror novels with creepy settings

Katherine Daniel is a fiction writer based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she loves to explore the dark and twisty parts of what it means to be human through storytelling. She received a bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing from Georgia State University.

Her debut horror novel When the Night Comes Knocking.

At CrimeReads Daniel tagged "five horror novels where the setting feels like a gaping, sharp-toothed mouth waiting to snap shut at any moment." One title on the list:
John Langan, The Fisherman

Grief brings together Abe and Dan, where they connect over the loss of their loved ones by fishing together throughout the Catskills. Dan learns of a place called Dutchman’s Creek, where an entity known as the Fisherman resides and is rumored to have supernatural power to restore what someone has lost; only once there, the two men instead find a disturbing, warped reality in the vein of true Lovecraftian horror.
Read about the other novels on the list at CrimeReads.

--Marshal Zeringue