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The Ritual
A Horror Novel by Adam Nevill
Subgenres:
- Wilderness Survival,
- Scandinavian Setting,
- Folk Horror
This book is for you if you're into...
- Scandinavian wilderness horror with ancient pagan threats
- Friendship unraveling under supernatural pressure in remote forests
From Little Stack
If you like your dark fantasy verging on horror and steeped in ancient rites and things that should have stayed buried, The Ritual by Adam Nevill is an easy yes. What starts as a simple lads’ hiking trip quickly unravels into something far older and far more deliberate. The deeper they go into the forest, the more it feels like they’ve crossed into a place shaped by ritual. Not symbolic. Not harmless. Active. Watching.
And that’s the hook. This isn’t just survival horror. It’s a dark fantasy too, about stumbling into a living belief system, one built on offerings, fear, and something that demands to be fed. The sense that you weren’t meant to be here, but now that you are, you’ve been noticed? Chilling.
If you’re into folk fantasy and horror, pagan dread, and stories where ritual isn’t background flavour but the main event, this one lingers long after the last page.
When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another.
But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. With limited experience between them, a shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives.
Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, Luke figures things couldn't possibly get any worse. But then they stumble across an old habitation. Ancient artefacts decorate the walls and there are bones scattered upon the dry floors. The residue of old rites and pagan sacrifice for something that still exists in the forest. Something responsible for the bestial presence that follows their every step.
As the four friends stagger in the direction of salvation, they learn that death doesn't come easy among these ancient trees . . .
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