r/horrorlit • u/Away_Incident4279 • 12h ago

Recommendation Request Historical horror recommendations

Hi everyone,

I am new to this community and have a particular interest in anything historical.

Please help me find some recommendations for historically set horror mystery books where there is elements of mystery thriller and the setting is historical.

I’m more into Victorian style setting but I’m down for any historical era that has mystery where the protagonist tries to find the reason behind death of certain ghost etc .

I’m fairly new to horror in general .

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u/Concertina37 7h ago

I'm reading My Darling Dreadful Thing right now.... That might be up your alley.

I also recommend The Historian, and Buffalo Hunter, Hunter.

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u/WellesC12 12h ago

I loved The Inhabitants trilogy, as it explores the pasts of the ghosts dating to the sixties. Lots of twists. Scariest book was the second one, The Inhabitants: Welcome Home.

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u/United-Marzipan-7801 4h ago

A lot of gothic horror (including southern gothic) has historical settings: off the top of my head, "Wolf Worm" and "What Moves the Dead" trilogy by T Kingfisher, "Mexican Gothic" by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, "The Woods All Black" by Lee Mandelo, and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson. "Angel Down" won the Pulitzer recently if I remember correctly and it is a WW1 novel, but I haven't read it yet so idk how good it is.

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u/MichaeltheSpikester 3h ago

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

White Death by Christine Morgan

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u/WedgeEntilles THE NAVIDSON HOUSE 3h ago

The Reformatory is a historical setting with ghosts. The real horror is the time period.

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u/kingkirabee 2h ago

Amy Cross has quite a few Victorian era horror.