10 Haunting Found-Footage Horror Novels

10 Found-Footage Horror Novels

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Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

It’s the precocious ’90s, and autarkic video-rental stores are already an endangered species. With a shiny caller Hollywood Video present unfastened successful Ames, the Video Hut successful Nevada, Iowa whitethorn soon beryllium connected the brink of shuttering for good. Against this troubled backdrop, Video Hut worker Jeremy digs into an progressively creepy mystery. Someone has recorded brief, unnerving clips implicit the store’s VHS tapes, and each signs constituent to a section vandal. What’s going connected successful Nevada…and wherever volition Jeremy find the adjacent clip?

White Fox by Sara Faring

White Fox was expected to beryllium Mirella’s top achievement, but it vanished 10 years ago, on with its creator. Mirella’s daughters, Manon and Thaïs, spent the past decennary successful exile. When the sisters yet instrumentality to their puerility home, however, they find Mirella’s manuscript waiting for them. Does their mother’s experimental last task clasp the answers they’ve spent a beingness searching for? Or volition White Fox lone pb these 2 young women down a unsafe rabbit hole?

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

What happened astatine the Bloody Prom? Springville, Georgia’s archetypal integrated prom ended successful occurrence and decease — 200 deaths, to beryllium exact. All of the survivors hold that Madison, a white-passing pupil who was revealed to beryllium biracial specified weeks earlier the large event, was responsible. Michael isn’t truthful sure. His podcast, Maddy Did It, rehashes the grounds to find whether the bullied pupil committed the crimes her neighbors alleged — and whether oregon not Maddy herself is inactive alive.

White Tears by Hari Kunzru

White Tears is astir a antithetic benignant of found-footage: an accidental signaling of a mysterious song. While signaling the sound of his locomotion done the city, Seth — a achromatic audiophile and grounds institution co-founder who has spent his full big beingness researching blues euphony — captures a opus he’s ne'er heard before. Together with his concern spouse — different achromatic antheral named Carter — Seth releases the opus and markets it nether the sanction of a fictional, Black musician: Charlie Shaw. But erstwhile idiosyncratic turns up connected the men’s doorstep insisting that Charlie Shaw was real, Seth and Carter rapidly find themselves playing a unsafe game.

Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

Everyone successful municipality knows astir Lucy Gallows, the shade rumored to haunt the section forest, who’s said to lure radical into the trees to play her game. A twelvemonth aft Becca disappeared, however, nary 1 but her sister, Sara, seems to judge Lucy’s crippled was responsible. Sara’s erstwhile friends person been giving her a wide berth ever since Becca went missing. But erstwhile they’re invited to play the game, they don’t hesitate to reply the call. Armed with cameras to papers their travel done the woods, the teens spell looking for Lucy Gallows…but volition they find Becca arsenic well?

Unboxed by Briana Morgan

Briana Morgan’s abbreviated play centers connected Greg, a antheral who’s gone viral, not for the paranormal enactment helium covers connected his vlog, but for a home dispute. To reinvigorate his brand, Greg purchases a postulation of acheronian web artifacts to unbox. He’s ill-prepared for what helium finds, however, and is soon forced to reckon with a malevolent entity that holds the powerfulness to destruct his full life.

Ring by Koji Suzuki

When 4 Tokyo teens simultaneously dice of earthy causes, a writer takes a heavy dive into the kids’ caller past. Kazuyuki Asakawa’s niece was 1 of the 4 victims. Determined to lick the riddle of his niece’s death, Asakawa finds a disturbing VHS tape. The unusual signaling threatens viewers’ lives earlier it abruptly ends. Fearing helium has lone 1 week to live, Asakawa turns to an aged person for help. It’s a contention against clip to interruption the tape’s curse…and the much radical ticker the recording, the higher the stakes become.

We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson

Kea Wilson’s caller follows its unnamed protagonist, a struggling actor, to a cursed movie acceptable heavy successful the Amazon. He’s not the director’s archetypal prime for the role. In fact, the producers lone called him aft the archetypal histrion took contented with the script. But did the contentious screenplay ever truly exist? And what volition beryllium near of their enactment successful the rainforest, wherever humidity threatens the portion itself? Based loosely connected the behind-the-scenes communicative of the archetypal found-footage fearfulness film, We Eat Our Own is simply a must-read for anyone funny successful the sub-genre.

Negative Space by B.R. Yeager

Told done a bid of Internet artifacts, B.R. Yeager’s Negative Space weaves its mode done the lives of a fewer teenage friends successful a tiny New England town. A drawstring of suicides kills Kinsfield, New Hampshire’s residents successful grounds numbers. Four teens crook to a hallucinogenic thoroughfare cause to cope. But erstwhile 1 begins to suffer himself successful a tangled Internet web, fearfulness seizes his 3 compatriots, who cognize their days whitethorn good beryllium numbered.