The Colour out of Space
By H. P. Lovecraft
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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this is my favorite Lovecraft piece. phenomenonal concept, and I think it was when he was getting to transition away from commercial magazine writing so the structure was getting better than in previous stories.
I know this is a book community but it's worth mentioning this also had the only movie adaptations I stand by
You might like a horror podcast:
https://www.thesiltverses.com/
or
https://www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/
Seconding The Silt Verses! It's such a good story and beautifully told.
I'm not sure if these are quite the same sort of thing you're looking for, I haven't read any of the examples you provided to compare, but two podcasts that are personal horror favorites of mine and kind of feel like they might sort of rub up against what you're looking for- Old Gods of Appalachia, and Alice Isn't Dead
You are the first person I've seen in the wild to recommend OGoA. This makes me so happy!! I stumbled upon them via Kickstarter when they did their TTRPG and found out the writers are from 2 towns where I have also lived.
- The Indian Lake trilogy is slasher series set in remote Idaho
- Beware the Woman is a claustrophobic thriller set in a cabin in rural Michigan
- Mister Magic is a modern retelling of IT (loosely) set mostly in the basement of an abandoned house
- The Terror (Dan Simmons) is about a supernatural entity assailing a group of marooned sailors in northern Canada. Based on a real event and later adapted into a pretty good TV series
Thank you these all sound fantastic!
"The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones. Watch out for deer. You never know.
I don't like when I'm hiking and they stare me down as I walk by. I'll add this to my list thanks
I've only just started reading this, so I can't guarantee that it fits the brief, or that it's good: look into The River by Peter Heller.
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival
It’s a bit strange not to see Arthur Machen mentioned. It might be a silly question, but have you read “The White People”? It’s what “The Twisted One” builds upon. Cotgrave, Ambrose, The Green Book – all that comes straight from Machen’s story. I do not know, if you are going to like it, it’s being written more than a century ago... but if you do, Machen has more like this.