Horror comedy short stories are a great palette cleanser and still give you a creepy vibe. 'John Dies at the End' started as a serialized web story—its chapters are episodic and hilarious-horrific. The book collects them.
Or 'The Last Feast of Harlequin' by Thomas Ligotti is… okay, not comedy. Bad example. But look for collections by Grady Hendrix; his short fiction often has a funny, nostalgic horror feel. It’s lighter, so you can still sleep afterward, but you get the genre satisfaction.
You know, a twist that really got me recently was in a short called 'The Quiet Boy' by Nick Antosca (which was adapted into 'Antlers'). The slow unveiling of the wendigo curse and the father's transformation is brutal, but the true chill is in the sheriff's final, doomed decision. It's a twist of tragic, inevitable inheritance, where the horror passes to the next generation. Grim stuff.