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The Road

McCarthy's Pulitzer novel strips survival to its most elemental — love between father and son

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House of Leaves

The most formally inventive horror novel — the house that defies space, the text that defies reading

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The Last of Us

The defining post-apocalyptic story in games

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Silent Hill 2

The greatest horror game — a journey into guilt and self-punishment

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Station Eleven

What survives of us is art — a hopeful post-pandemic fable

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Hereditary

Ari Aster's debut — grief as a haunting, family as a trap