u/Commercial-Theory173

I'm nearly finished writing a horror story that will be approximately 40K words, maybe a little more. In my head that's still a novel, just like a 2-minute punk ripper is still a song. But...I worry that publishers might feel differently.

Horror heads, what do you see as the niche for books of this length? Are they novellas? Short novels? Some cool 3rd thing I've never heard of?

Have you read other 40K-ish word books (I think that's like 180 pages)?

I hope that mine is in the tradition of propulsive, shorter books like "Come Closer" by Sara Gran, "Rosemary's Baby" by Ira Levin, and "Ring Shout" by P. Djeli Clark.