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This subject has been done countless times concerning places in books we want to visit so I'll do my own thing again. I'm doing ten places that more books should be set!
1) Egypt
I want to see more monsters in uncovered tombs being explored, deadly traps in the tombs that kill off expedition members, ancient deadly gods coming to life and attacking people! Tour boats on the Nile under attack from something nasty! An apocalypse trapping tourists and locals together...
2) Scotland
More horror and apocalypse books in my country that don't have us Scots steriotyped as total assholes living in permanent rainy conditions with snotty US teens as MCs! Murder on Ben Nevis! EMPs in Glasgow and Edinburgh! Preppers in the countryside! Monsters chasing stranded tourists! Zombies in Edinburgh Castle!
3) Canada
Where are the Canadian horror and apocalypse books? I don't think I have any! Monsters in the national parks, camping during the apocalypse, zombies in the big cities? Mounties v Zombies? Such a beautiful country needs more books in these genres!
4) Iceland
What a great location for horror and apocalypse books! Un updated version of the Thing, a volcanic apocalypse, snow monsters, ice zombies, tourists stranded somewhere with something nasty lurking! Tourists trapped in a town by bad weather and hungry vampires?
5) Russia
I'd love to see an EMP book set in Russia where they are the victims not the aggressor and see their citizens and military as the heroes. Zombies in Moscow, terrorist attacks across the country, ice monsters in Siberia, things lurking in mines...such potential!
6) Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Finland
I'd love to see a story about the biathlon athletes as heroes in some way, evading zombies or terrorists to save the people in the town. There are lots of crime novels set here but real gory horror with monsters or a natural/man made disaster would be fun or a stranded cruise ship in trouble with monsters involved.
7) Wales
Most UK horror seems to focus a lot on London or England in general so it would be great to see more set in Wales. There are great cities for zombies and EMP attacks, monsters or a killer on Snowdonia, terrorist attacks and so on. I think I've read one and that is all. Let's see a lot more of Wales!
8) Africa
I'd like to see more books set in Africa in general in my favourite genres. Monsters on Kilimanjaro scaring tourists, EMP attack on Cape Town, tourists stranded on Table Mountain diring a terrorist attack on the city, preppers on Robben Island, monsters in the deserts and dinosaurs on the beach resorts!
9) South America
I have read some good horror books set in The Amazon and the jungles of Peru so I'd like to see more of that. I want more dinosaurs and monsters on expeditions in every country! I'd like to see cities like RDJ featuring in a good story-some kind of apocalypse disaster. There is so much scope for horror in South America that it makes a great setting for authors. More please!
10) Italy
Italy has those amazing volcanoes which would be great settings for disaster stories of some kind. We could have a migrant boat with zombies invading the mainland and locals working with migrants to stop them. There are so many tourist attractions and great cities that could be used for horror and apocalypse.
The reason there aren't any Canadian monster books is because the author is so polite that he has all the characters go up and try to be polite to the monster, which promptly eats them all. So no characters, hence no book. Happens every time!
ReplyDeleteHa!
I wonder if the huge swathes of non-urban areas play a part of it? Honestly, I'd think that would play into the whole monster on the loose thing so much better. All those uninhabited areas and huge plains and lots and lots of mountains.
There would be so many great locations for monsters-the national parks, the lakes, a Yeti in the snowy areas!
DeleteGreat post and some great ideas. I'm definitely down for Africa, Iceland and the Norway area.
ReplyDeleteNore expeditions and more horrors! Iceland is just perfect to have snowbeasts eating the tourists! Monsters in African mines would be fun too!
DeleteWe definitely need more books set in Africa and South America. I think I read 1 Africa book last year and 0 South America books. Almost all of the books I read are set in North America or Europe.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
I've read some good Amazon expeditions going wrong books and lost worlds found in the forests so it is a popular horror setting! I have a few zombie books that have African locations but more would be nice.
DeleteA world filled with zombies and EMPT attacks, heh. Lots of potential out there!
ReplyDeleteTwo of my favourite things to read about!
DeleteI'd like more set in Australia but your choices are great even though I read a lot set in Scotland. But then again I read more romance and they love setting books in Scotland (& Paris) lol
ReplyDeleteKaren @ For What It's Worth
I see a ton of Scottish romances and it seems to be a depressing city for YA books but not much else. I've read one zombie and one EMP book in my country and we need more than that!
DeleteNow that you mention it, I have never really heard of any horror novels set outside The US.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: Marie @ Pages to Explore
Oh I've read a lot of horror in different countries but I always want to find more!
DeleteI agree with Scotland. I love reading books set in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteWe have so many amazing locations for horror but nobody seems to write it!
DeleteLove your take on this list. And I agree, more books should be set in Wales, Scotland, and Iceland, but especially in Egypt. Can you imagine a horror story set in Cairo's ancient city of the dead? That would be so cool! I also vote for more stories set in the deepest part of the Amazon rain forest, oh, and in Antarctica, too. :D
ReplyDeleteI love the thought of ancient monsters running about inside the Pyramids! Rain forests are great for all kinds of dinosaurs and monsters! I've just read a few books set in Venezuela which was fun!
DeleteI would say, most of the books I read set outside the US are set in Europe (England, France, Italy) and Canada. So, I pretty much agree with all these settings.
ReplyDeleteThere are no shortage of contemporary and romance books with European locations but it would be nice to see horror books going there more often!
DeleteI love these ideas! I could get behind some ice zombies :)
ReplyDeleteZombies of any kind are always fun but more ice zombies would be a whole new level!
DeleteI never realized that the books I've read that are set in these locations aren't creatures or horror stories. Hmm. Now I need to go check my books and see what I do have.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I could do a few posts about horror books I've read in different countries and locations. Might be useful for people and everyone can add their own suggestions!
DeleteThat would be great! I'm going to start keeping track of things like this. I also want to start noting where the author's are from.
DeleteI'm going to start work on a few posts about this to get me started. It'll take ages to go through my Goodreads books to find out the countries for everything!
DeleteI love your ideas for Egypt and Iceland in particular. Those would work for me haha! Wales and africa too!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could write all these books myself! It would be so much fun!
DeleteHmm, challenge accepted. I'm going to have to look up some more horror fiction set in Canada, the only one I can think of is The Troop by Nick Cutter.
ReplyDelete~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum
I've read a few urban fantasy from Canada but don't remember loving any horror books set there. I DNFed The Troop!
DeleteI would love to visit Egypt too because of all the mythology! It's on my bucket list :)
ReplyDeleteI really wanted to go and had started saving one time but then there were terrorist attacks and it put me off a bit! That was many years ago now and I never got round to trying to save again!
DeleteGood one Bookstooge. :-)
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
I think I might be missing something there!
DeleteFrom a non-horror reader I definitely agree! I love all those locations and would love to see more from all of these. I am surprised that Egypt isn't better represented in horror. It seems like it would be just a constant font of story ideas.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem like the ideal location!
DeleteNo zombies in my fave city, thank you very much!! :)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how stupidly I left Egypt off my list this week. I am such a dumbass. Happy Reading!
Zombies everywhere! Though not for real as that would be too scary!
DeleteYes, to all of these! Scotland and Egypt the most!!
ReplyDeleteMary