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  • Horrors, psychological thrillers, mysteries, etc. Please no vampires, werewolves, or high fantasy, but mega points for ghosts and hauntings!! I'm looking for recommendations for movies, tv shows, podcasts, books etc. for my mom, who is currently undergoing breast cancer treatment and would greatly appreciate some stories to get lost in! She's a big fan of mysteries, horrors, and thrillers, particularly involving hauntings or a generally spooky atmosphere (ie. abandoned orphanage). However, she has a very low tolerance for gore, gratuitous sex, high fantasy and swearing, and zero tolerance for vampires and werewolves. Showtime's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_dreadful proved too much for her, while she loves gore-free and psychological thrillers like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_(2013_film) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_House_(film). She also loved the book http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594746036/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/, and I already have the second in the series ordered for her. She's a big (non-fantasy) Stephen King and Micheal Crichton fan as well. She has both basic cable and a Netflix account, so she's pretty thoroughly exhausted the campy selection of instant watch thrillers already. I'd really like book suggestions, since these are far more portable for her, and podcasts/really good audiobooks. Any suggestions for blood- and orgy-free scary stories that you can really immerse yourself in would be great; thanks in advance!

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    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+others&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari. Don't Google anything about it to avoid spoilers. Great film, very creepy. I may have squealed like a Banshee at one point while watching it in a packed cinema but I was not alone.

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Ohhh ... http://commonplacebooks.com/! Such a fun rabbit hole to fall into.

jbickers

If she hasn't read it yet, I bet she'd like http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143039970/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ by Shirley Jackson.

jabes

PenDevil

OK, I'm a Victorianist, so I'm going to go all nineteenth-century on you (OK, some early twentieth century for good measure)! Plenty of stuff that's still scary, but rarely any gore to speak of. The late Michael Cox's http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192804472/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019955630X/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/. Henry James' http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199536171/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ (especially if preceded by Jane Eyre and followed by Waters' The Little Stranger, as recommended above; A. N. Wilson's rewrite, A Jealous Ghost, may have too much gore for your mother's tastes, but John Harding's http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0051GUEP4/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ is quite spooky) Lay in a good supply of http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199538573/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486204154/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ has plenty of creepy atmosphere. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684842572/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ wrote some interesting ghost stories. Seconding Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and thirding Hill's The Woman in Black.

thomas j wise

Susan Hill's The Woman in Black for sure. I haven't seen the movie in part because I don't want to spoil my recollection of the book--a perfect Gothic ghost story.

Monsieur Caution

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell sounds custom written!

fshgrl

All of the "Paranormal Activity" movies, which believe it or not, get better and better as the series progresses. I would think any J-horror film rated PG-13 or below would be good, too. As far as books, "House of Leaves" messed with my head so much I had to put it upside-down on my nightstand for a while. Clive Barker's "Mister B. Gone" is also very good in this regard.

jbickers

Season one of American Horror Story.

Room 641-A

I really enjoy Sarah Waters' "The Little Stranger". Don't read too much about it before you dive in

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