BookFeed Ελληνικά If Misery stayed with you, these share its feel: dread, curiosity and society. Each comes with a real page, so you can tell in a minute.
About Misery · Stephen King
William Peter Blatty, 1971
Also dread and unease. A priest-psychiatrist is asked to explain a child's illness that medicine cannot. A horror novel less about the devil than about belief, guilt and the cost of certainty.
The blaze of sun wrung pops of sweat from the old man’s brow, yet he cupped his hands around the glass of hot sweet tea as if to warm them. Bram Stoker, 1897
Also dread and unease. A solicitor's business trip, a seaside storm and a doctor's case notes, told through diaries, letters and telegrams so that dread reads like found evidence.
What I saw was the Count’s head coming out from the window. I did not see the face, but I knew the man by the neck and the movement of his back and arms. In any case I could not mistake the hands which I had had so many opportunities of studying. I was at first interested and somewhat amused, for it is wonderful how small a matter will interest and amuse a man when he is a prisoner. But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings. At first I could not believe my eyes. Colleen Hoover, 2018
Also dread and curiosity. A broke writer takes a job finishing another author's novels and finds a manuscript that was never meant to be read.
I needed for the imaginary version of my world to be darker than my real world. Otherwise, I would have wanted to leave them both. Dave Eggers, 2013
Also unease and power. Mae joins the world's most admired tech company, where total transparency is the mission, and discovers what being fully seen costs.
They entered an elevator of glass, tinted faintly orange. Lights flickered on and Mae saw her name appear on the walls, along with her high school yearbook photo. Welcome Mae Holland. A sound, something like a gasp, left Mae’s throat. She hadn’t seen that photo in years, and had been happy for its absence. This must have been Annie’s doing, assaulting her with it again. The picture was indeed Mae—her wide mouth, her thin lips, her olive skin, her black hair, but in this photo, more so than in life, her high cheekbones gave her a look of severity, her brown eyes not smiling, only small and cold, ready for war. Since the photo—she was eighteen then, angry and unsure—Mae had gained much-needed weight, her face had softened and curves appeared, curves that brought the attention of men of myriad ages and motives. Thomas Harris, 1981
Also dread and society. A retired FBI profiler is pulled back to hunt a killer who strikes by the moon, while the man who nearly killed him waits in a cell.
Graham returned to the table. He was afraid that this was how he would remember the end of Sugarloaf Key-ice melting in two tea glasses and paper napkins fluttering off the redwood table in the breeze and Molly and Willy far down the beach. Margaret Atwood, 1985
Also society and dread. A woman survives in a theocratic state where her body is a resource; her wry, precise voice reports the daily cost of obedience.
He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, off key, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. Jeneva Rose, 2020
Also dread and curiosity. A defense attorney takes on the case of her own husband, accused of murdering the woman he was seeing.
Freida McFadden, 2024
Also dread and society. A maid with a secret takes a job in a perfect house where the wife's kindness feels like a warning.
Agatha Christie, 1939
Also dread and curiosity. Ten strangers are invited to an island where a nursery rhyme starts coming true; Christie's most airtight trap, and her most human.
Bret Easton Ellis, 1991
Also unease and dread. A Wall Street banker's immaculate surfaces—suits, reservations, CD cases—crack into a satire of appetite, status and violence.
George Orwell, 1949
Also dread and power. A clerk who rewrites old newspapers starts a private diary, and every small act of independent thought becomes a crime.
Michael Crichton, 1995
Also curiosity and dread. A rich man's expedition to a hidden island turns into a firsthand argument about dinosaurs, media, and whether humans are as smart as we think.
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