10 Horror Books That Will Make You Fear the Woods
Cabins. Campsites. Quiet forests. There’s nothing like a cozy wilderness getaway…until the trees start whispering and the shadows bare their teeth. If you love horror stories where isolation breeds madness and nature bites back, read on.
Read & Loved
Slewfoot by Brom
Colonial panic meets witchy folklore. You’ll never trust a goat again.
Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories by Yvette Tan
Philippine gothic taps into ancestral dread.
Intercepts by TJ Payne
A remote government facility performs psychic experiments. The gut-turning tension is giving Stranger Things, but more morally bankrupt.
The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois
Lord of the Flies, but make it French and feral. A camping trip with 6-year-olds unravels into chaos and brutality.
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
What should have been a snowy retreat for this couple turns into a haunting.
Haunting my TBR
The Troop by Nick Cutter
A Boy Scout troop goes on a trip to a deserted island. Apparently, this is not what a childhood camping experience should be.
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Deeply rooted in culture and cosmic dread, this story is about slow-creeping vengeance set against nature.
Dead Silence by SA Barnes
Technically set in space, but what’s more isolating than that? The wilderness of the galaxy can deliver psychological horror easily.
Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Nature doesn’t just fight back—it takes over. Mountains + trauma + possession? What more could you want?
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Gothic mansion > forest—but the primal hunger and remote dread work just as well.
