Jack de Quidt

its a genre im a lil unclear on the shape of but The Elementals by Michael Mcdowell seems like it fits and is also both really good and hits a lot of horror nerves in how true a lot of what its dealing with feels for me as a queer person born in the american south. the caveat is that mcdowell handles race very weirdly, a sort of sympathetic but doesn't quite get it sorta vibe

The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher is excellent

I haven't read it myself yet but everyone loves night of the living rez

Bending the rules to recommend a piece of nonfiction. And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts. It's a contemporary history of the early years of the AIDS epidemic in America, written by a gay journalist who died of AIDS a few years after it released.

It's bleak, and fucking devastating. Knowing that AIDS decimated the gay community in America is one thing, but hearing someone who lived through it describe the experience is something else entirely. It's not perfect - some specific factual claims it makes were subsequently disproven - but the broader story it tells is still accurate and horrifying.

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Phil Rickman is the writer who has the strongest grasp of British folklore and occultism of anyone I've read. His earlier stuff is more horror but he has a long series of detective stories starring a female vicar in the Welsh Borders solving crimes and dealing with older and more mysterious dangers. That series starts with The Wine Of Angels, (which RULES) but most of his earlier stuff is solid reading.

The Hollow Kind by Andy Davidson is a bit of a blur between Southern Gothic and Folk Horror I think, but it's overall very strong. Cunning Folk by Adam Nevill was also pretty good, very in some classic folk horror veins (Nevill also wrote The Ritual, which has a good film adaptation).