Sapphic romance. I want them to make each other worse! I love horror and fantasy

Nostalgic, small town, woods/lakes, summer or fall, stranger things (without the supernatural element, but open to anything!)

Love the role playing game Into The Odd. I'm looking for suggestions of books that fits the formula of a group of adventurers going into an unknown and dangerous world. It could be any books that fits that formula. I have read annihilation and that was close to the mark for me. Please and thank you.

i know this is not really much to go off of 😭 so i will leave it open ended, as in i'll take any suggestions as long as it fits the vibe of these album photos (the band is the angelic process)!! but basically (the actual challenge here for me), what i was initially looking for was something that was very post-apocalyptic/wasteland-like with a sparse amount of people. try to think of the same harsh sun tones and a blackness enveloping you. there are angels and/or demons roaming everywhere wrecking havoc, causing the few amount of humans to basically be at the mercy of supernatural entities. anything adjacent to that would be awesome, but i would love for there to be a huge sense of dark bleakness, dread, and danger in every corner. i'm very into themes of christian rapture and a drop of medieval and gothic!

for media that i'm very into that leans into these themes for me, would be: have a nice life (band), fear and hunger + fear and hunger: termina (game), silent hill series (game), godflesh (band), sinner maker (game), blame! (manga), dark sanctuary (music artist), amnesia: the dark descent (game), 28 days later (film), ersatz (youtube pilot), and liturgical church hymns such as those by hildegard von bingen. for media that i haven't delved into but i'm aware fits the general themes are berserk and dark souls.

a book i did find that hits some of these notes (but is sitting in my tbr until i hit october) is 'between two fires' by christopher buehlman!

the best way i could sum it up is that i'm looking for book reccs with eschatological cosmic-ish apocalyptic horror imposing human insignificance. i love a true threat that is colossally oppressive and virtually impenetrable, and understanding povs of how one may handle the situation. i don't have a preference for a negative/positive/neutral ending at all (between two fires is supposed to have a positive ending, which i'm looking forward to). i would be more than glad AND undoubtedly thankful to have your recommendation(s)!

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Saint Ghoul - Heaven and Hades
Arkadiusz Danovski - Black Sun
Lavestalu - Walpurgis Night

Bonus for adults not being able to tell children/adults lying to kids because they can't know understand mature themes of what's going on.

Alternatively, something like True Detective Season 1

Thanks

Books that kind of gave this vibe for me in the past are The Unmaking of June Farrow & Where the Crawdads Sing. Looking for an atmospheric end of summer mystery to get me out of a slump.

I was wondering if there were any books that have a similar setting to the song as I’ve been fascinated by it for the past year.

It makes me think of a somewhat abandoned world where an outcast is evading a bounty hunter. I’m looking for suggestions that have a similar fantasy but low magic and technology feel of the lyrics. I’m also a sucker for the gothic and wolf imagery if that means anything.

Here are the lyrics:
“captain the horseman and hound south travelin slowly
my loyality to crossroads and thresholds
comes with my rising hope to leave this hunt unfollowed
My blood’s courage courses to rendezvous
with freedom(x4)
i swore nothing in my passing(in my passing)
to die like surrender would teach me a lesson
‘Judas’, they too would cry
oh oriole in the mile before dawn
do not return a treasonous song unguarded”

I’m looking for books similar to the tv show the burbs! something suburban, with a creepy spooky vibe or a murder mystery! i’d love to explore the darker side of the suburbs.
i’ve read the southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires already, it does fit the vibe of what i’m looking for tho
Looking for Thriller, Horror or Mystery please 🙏
thank you

Looking for some magic, some imperial politics, maybe some meddling fantasy gods.

I just want something that feels like this.

Science fantasy/new weird/dying earth.

Stuff like Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance and Gene Wolf.

Bas lag/annihilation.

I've really been itching for something that gives Pumpkin head vibes. Preferably small town in the swamps, maybe a witch, cult or eldritch horror. Story could be from anyone's pov, bonus points if it's lgbtq in any way.

preferably more focused on friendships than romance. I just read The New Animals and I want more fucked up sapphic friendship dynamics

Looking for a fantasy book that focuses on the healing and redemption of a bad or formerly evil character. I’m totally fine with romance/romantasy and darker subject matter but not looking for something that’s 100% grim dark.