Best Horror Books

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no Adult, supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and e...

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Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaids Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction (New York Times).The Handmaids Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison?s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful f...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matte...

The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.Now a miniseries drama starring Julianna Margulies, Topher Grace, Liam Cunningham, James D'Arcy, and Noah Emmerich on National Geographic.A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no c...

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth_x0097_musicians, tat...

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of such contemporary masters of supernatural fiction as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and Kelly Link, who introduces this edition of Carter's most celebrated book, published for the seventyfifth anniversary of her birth.In The Bloody Chamber whic...

Patrick Bateman is twentysix and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to headon collision with America's greatest dream?and its worst nightmare?American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront....

Part of a new sixvolume series of the best in classic horror, selected by awardwinning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorite...

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes ho...

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction......

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lu...

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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. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi_x0092_s themselves...THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at ...

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"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 Turner family. The youngest child, Noah, narrates the family history: ...

A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewskis House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvists Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jacksons The Haunting of Hill House.The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourt...

A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blooddrenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in _x0093_Faun._x0094_ A griefstricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in _x0093_Late Returns._x0094_ In _x0093_By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain,_x0094_ two young friends stumble on the corpse of...

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unaware that the elderly neighbors and their bizarre group of friends have taken a disturbing interest in them. But by the time Rosemary discovers the horrifying truth, it may be far too late!...

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. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bend...

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 haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business calle...

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. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a gh...

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. And the burial itself is the magnificent climax to his craftsmanship. Clive Bark...

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. In this stunning 40th Anniversary Edition, a desperate mother and two priests fight to free the soul of a little girl from a supernatural entity of pure malevolence....

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. They want to change her and never let her go.Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save ...

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. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.How long can one man su...

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 photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bik...

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. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite _x0097_ heir to the estate that owned one of Atticu...

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. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the ...

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. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn ...

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 survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.He was born an outside...

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 childhoodIn Penpal, a man investigates the seemingly unrelated bizarre, tr...

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 that has been in his family for generations. But from the moment the ch...

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. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that att...

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. There_x0092_s only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives eld...

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. Now a new investigation has been mounted four strangers, each with h...

"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 New YorkWhen Kline is kidnapped by a dark sect that believes amputation brin...

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. From electrifying horror author Nick Cutter comes a haunting new novel, reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's...

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. Daniel, an Irish expat, walks the lonely trail carrying his wife, Petra_x0092_s, ashes, along with the damning secret of how she...

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. Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo te...

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 bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens. With an analog SLR camera as h...

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. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundr...

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. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters your homes at will. She stands next to your bed for nights on end....

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. But, by the end of the day, all Charles and his wife have left are cups of tea and police sympathy. For Naomi, their beautiful, an...

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. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At nig...

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. Now they are grownup men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force ...

"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 his career. For those who already know these tales, the poignant intro...

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“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Fantasy, Horror lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

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. And now he wants to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happens, and he wakes up in p...

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. It_x0092_s beautiful, remote, idyllic, a place to heal. But they are not alone. Something is in the woods, screeching in...

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. Mysterious billionaire and entertainment magnate Cameron Crayton is a household name from his questionably legal televised spectacles...

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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. Things get weirder, though, when the old house they live in starts changing. Doors open and close by thems...

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 Malerman.Something is out there . . . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One gl...

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 farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it_x0092_s served them well s...

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. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past and get away with murder....

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. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Amo...

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. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A selfproclaimed "homicidal adventurer," Vess lives only to sat...

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. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moment...

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 murdered her husband. Years later, the writer_x0092_s stepson reflects upon his ste...

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 artwork by Stephen Gammell.This jacketed hardcover edition includes the compl...

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 book._x0093_These are stories of betrayal,_x0094_ author John Langan confirms.Apart from this thr...

World Fantasy, Award Winner: Fiction that "combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling," by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal). In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her awardwinning best spinning tales like...

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. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka...

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. Soon, the group discovers stories of other children who once disappeared ...

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. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried ben...

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. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear ...

The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington, call it the Good House. But that all changes one summer when an unexpected tragedy takes place behind its closed doors...and the Toussaint's family history and future is dramatically transformed. Angela has not returned to th...