A Novel of Dark Menace...

I love Ian McEwan and others like him who write very subtle novels of personal trauma, secrets, and sort of psychological thrillers for lack of a better term, sometimes to the point of "grotesque." Think, "A Rose For Emily."

I am still searching for my genre, and I paste myself under the flag of "suspense thriller/noir" but now "A novel of dark menace" sounds closer.

The settings are not gloomy, by the way. No swamps. The rising action is slower, than the typical detective novel or mystery. It is almost imperceptible till it jumps out and bites you in the butt.

So where would "A Novel of Dark Menace" be in the MTS scale? Or should I just go looking in Mainstream? It could be I am not an MTS writer.

cletus said:

I don't recall seeing the "Dark Menace" section in my local library or bookstore. It sounds more like a description than an actual genre.

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I was thinking the same really. I think there are just novelists who do their own thing and whose names are "brands" and don't fit in any category. That is why I still cling to hope.

Yes! That could be it! There are no Detectives, and it is not a mystery in the mode of "looking for something," It is about a person bullying or threatening another person with rising drama until there is a possibly of great bodily harm. So psychological Suspense might be the correct term.