Desperate for horror that does NOT include cannibalism or child loss

Recommendation Request

I don’t do cannibalism and I don’t do child loss. Like, children can die, that’s fine, but I can’t do parents losing their children or really violent child deaths or really awful things happening to children. I feel like there’s so much cannibalism and children dying and cannibals who eat the dead children in a search to be shocking. Please give me your horror recs that don’t include those two things! I’ve been avoiding modern horror because I feel like they’re in everything I try lately. Maybe I’m a wimp now but I feel like I’ve read some really good horror before that didn’t include these things! It’s my favorite genre to read and I miss it.

Appreciate you all!

Posted Aug 13, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

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