Best Horror Books

THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler_x0092_s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, Fantasy, and fabulism.

"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it." Stephen King ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: ESQUIRE THE NERD DAILY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALISTMonsters both figurative and very literal stalk the…

A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z.

One man_x0092_s thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after seemingly committing an unforgiveable act of violence, from the awardwinning author of the The Devil in Silver and Big Machine.Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have…

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream_x0085_A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She_x0092_s not his mother. He_x0092_s not her child.

To a mortician, the preparation of a corpse is an art. The smooth, silent exchange of blood and embalming fluid is like a symphony to be orchestrated. The presentation of the deceased lying in a shining casket framed by flowers is an exquisitely composed tableau.

Four decades after it first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty_x0092_s The Exorcist is back! An extraordinary classic work of horror and dark paranormal suspense.

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl.

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation.

Now an AMC original series. NOS4A2 is a spinetingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of HeartShaped Box and Horns.Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing…

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22yearold Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George _x0097_ publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide _x0097_ and his childhood friend Letitia.

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.

Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53yearold vampire.

NOMINATED FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD _x0095_ NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARDNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY TOR.COM AND BOOK RIOTA spellbinding and darkly humorous comingofage story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to…

Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. Before long, it was adapted into illustrations, audio recordings, and short films; and that was before it was revised and expanded into a novel!How much do you remember about your…

One of the finest and bestselling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation of readers.In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife Mim work the land…

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook.

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it_x0092_s an offer that_x0092_s too good to refuse.

Can any soul surviveRegarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Two previous expeditions to investigate its secrets met with disaster, the participants destroyed by murder, suicide or insanity.

"The deceptively simple prose keeps the book brisk and even gripping as its puzzles grow more craggy and complex. This is Evenson's singular, Poelike gift: He writes with intelligence and a steady hand, even when his characters decide to lop their own limbs off."_x0097_Time Out…

An allnew epic tale of terror and redemption set in the hinterlands of midcentury New Mexico from the acclaimed author of "The Troop" which Stephen King raved scared the hell out of me and I couldn t put it down...oldschool horror at its best.

A man's pilgrimage becomes something from his darkest nightmares when secrets arise and ghosts haunt his path.A woman has vanished on the Camino de Santiago, the ancient fivehundredmile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain.

A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.

Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromata girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the…

You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. A dead girl walks the streets.She hunts murderers.

Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves.Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a 17th century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut.

Charles and Laura are a young, happily married couple inhabiting the privileged world of Cambridge academia. Brimming with excitement, Charles sets off with his daughter Naomi on a Christmas Eve shopping trip to London.

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda_x0097_a successful architect in a happy marriage_x0097_finds her life going off kilter by degrees.

Welcome to Derry, Maine ...It_x0092_s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror.

"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red." For those who only know Clive Barker through his long multigenre novels, this onevolume edition of the Books of Blood is a welcome chance to acquire the 16 remarkable horror short stories with which he kicked off…

Alan Moore's From Hell is a long, slow-burn graphic novel that reconstructs notorious Victorian murders into an atmospherically grim, obsessive underworld. It rewards readers who enjoy layered storytelling: dense, dialogue-heavy panels, extended historical context, and unsettling visual sequences by the artist. What works best is its immersive, forensic atmosphere and moral ambiguity; its main limitation is relentless bleakness and periodic digressions into detail that feel repetitive, which can numb empathy and grind pacing for readers expecting a straightforward thriller.

Ghost Summer reads like a linked short-story cycle set in a small Florida town where ghosts—literal and metaphorical—intersect with family memory and racial history. The strongest draw is atmosphere: lyrical prose, close character work, and speculative Afrofuturist flashes that make ordinary domestic scenes feel unsettled. Main limitation: several pieces favor mood and implication over clear resolution or fast plot, so readers who want tidy endings or adrenaline-driven scares may find parts slow or elliptical.

King's Classic bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his Number One Fan. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her with relief, with joy. Misery has made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers.

The monsters live inside of Kate Woodson. Chronic pain and a host of autoimmune diseases have robbed her of a normal, happy life. Her husband Andrew_x0092_s surprise of their dream Maine lake cottage for the summer is the gift of a lifetime.

Ready Player One meets Gladiator in this highoctane thriller that mixes fighttothedeath UFCstyle cage matches and blackops espionage.In the near future, the line between entertainment and brutality has blurred.

When Alexis' little sister, Kasey, becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks nothing of it. Kasey is a weird kid. Period. Alexis is considered weird, too, by the kids in her high school, by her parents, even by her own goth friends.

Play adaptation of the successful novel by William March.

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edgeofyourseat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic nearfuture world_x0097_a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh…

From the bestselling horror author of Within These Walls and The Bird Eater comes a terrifying novel that follows a teenager determined to break from his family_x0092_s unconventional_x0097_and deeply disturbing_x0097_traditions.Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked…

In life, not every sin goes unpunished.GHOST STORYFor four aging men in the terrorstricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them.

First published in 1967 and reissued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967.

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twentysix, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable.

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life.

SINISTER FORCES COLLIDE AND UNITE A HOST OF DESPERATE CHARACTERS IN THIS EERIE CYCLE OF INTERWOVEN TALES FROM YOKO OGAWA, THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR.An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has…

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREAll of the Scary Stories books are now available in one hardcover!These stories are some of the most terrifying tales of horror, revenge, and supernatural events of all time, collected and retold by Alvin Schwartz and featuring the classic…

John Langan_x0092_s new book is certain to solidify his place among the strongest voices in modern literary horror. Placed together within the same cover for the first time, a theme emerges from the tales that binds and unites them_x0096_and it is signaled in the title of the…

World Fantasy, Award Winner: Fiction that "combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling," by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal).

Two terrifying classics by _x0093_the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction_x0094_ (The Washington Post) Thomas Ligotti_x0092_s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction.

It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes.

Complete and unabridged paperback edition."The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama_x0092_s Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach.

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steepbanked, fastmoving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true.

The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington, call it the Good House.