What books or authors write about horror that is so subtle and insidious you can't even tell that it's horror?

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These are some of my favorite books, but they bother me, too Existential: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, by Stanislaw Lem. This novella appears at first to be absurdist humor, then becomes political and social commentary, and ends with existential horror. It is listed under Science Fiction, but only the introduction is that.

The rest of it is futuristic, to be sure. The things that make it horror are: The slow realization that the main character does not have a name. I am not sure why, but this is disturbing.

The fact that he is in a Pentagon building (not the Pentagon, but another just like it) and there is no escape. The nature of the people in the building, who have their own culture independent of the outside, and speak in poetry and codes 4 levels deep. Psychological: King Rat, by James Clavell.

This is one of my favorite historical novels, set in the Japanese prison camp Changi at the end of WWII. The King is one of the 25 Americans in the mostly English and Australian camp, and everything always goes his way. The horror is subtle, but for me part of the fascination of the book.As in most books, the reader wants the main characters to succeed, but in this book, that can take some dark turns: The vast relief in the camp (and the reader, at least me) when they receive news of the first atomic attack, because now the prisoners will be okay.

The mouth-watering scene where they cook up a minor character’s dog into the best stew they have eaten for years. The sorrow for the King when it is all over and the prisoners get to go free after years of privation. Plus, there is just some unpleasantness due to it being a war novel.

Oddball genre in fiction: Start of Darkness by Rich Burlew. I do not, as a rule, like graphic novels. This one sounds silly, because it is a D&D-based role-playing comic drawn with stick figures.

This one is a prequel to two of the others, and is the story of the arch-villain Xykon, a skeletal sorcerer-lich. What surprised me about this book was how the humor in it (better if you play D&D) did not interfere with a very well-written, very dark story. Nonfiction: Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks.

This is an autobiographical account of Marks, who ended up heading the encryption efforts of England during WWII (I guess I find WWII horrifying). He didn’t decrypt enemy translations like Turing, but instead tried to keep his side alive with secure codes the enemy couldn’t break. He suffered a lot, despite not being in the front lines.

He had to live with the reputation of a shirker because what he did was too secret to discuss, even with family. The most horrific moment for me was when he had to knowingly send someone on a suicide mission, but act like it was going to be a great success. The book was something of a confession; apparently he had all kinds of insomnia and guilt and so on for years, and finally wrote the book to purge it.

I couldn’t put it down, and I thought it was one of the best books I read in the last 10 years. Trebuchet5A's Recommendations Memoirs Found in a Bathtub Amazon List Price: $15.00 Used from: $6.86 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 17 reviews) King Rat Amazon List Price: $7.99 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 80 reviews) The Order of the Stick Used from: $15.69 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 Amazon List Price: $18.00 Used from: $1.47 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 91 reviews) .

Insidious horror novels Shirley Her stories and novels are truly terrifying because she leads you deeper and deeper into the horror before you realize it's horror, evil, mad. Strangers on a Train; House on Haunted The Lottery and more. Check her out, she raises the goosebumps very subtly..

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.