Bag of Bones
A grieving writer retreats to an isolated lake house, where writer’s block and delusions make solitude frightening.
The directory
Books: Isolation
Horror on the page: what each book is, who wrote it and how scary it gets.
Desperation
Stephen King's 1996 horror novel, twinned with a mirror story where the same people live very different fates.
Gerald's Game
A woman is trapped, handcuffed to a bed, after her husband dies beside her.
I Am Legend
A post-apocalyptic horror novel about a world overrun by a disease that turns people into something vampiric.
Misery
A writer's biggest fan decides she isn't ready to let him leave.
The Institute
A kidnapped boy wakes in a facility for children with strange gifts, and the ones who run it want something from him.
The Shining
Stephen King's breakthrough horror novel, shaped by his own hotel stay and his fight with drink at the time.
Under the Dome
A small town is cut off by an invisible barrier, leaving its people to face the fear of being trapped together.