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832 past books matching Horror
This is a strong fit for readers who like literary thrillers with a dark atmosphere, unsettling mysteries, and a constant sense that something is wrong just beneath the…
Night Film
Thriller · Horror · Mystery · Psychological Thriller
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Night Film follows a disgraced investigative journalist into the orbit of a dead young woman, a vanished cult director, and a world that feels more cursed the deeper he goes. As Scott McGrath digs into Ashley Cordova’s death, the line between obsession, performance, and something genuinely sinister starts to blur. This is a strong fit for readers who like literary thrillers with a dark atmosphere, unsettling mysteries, and a constant sense that something is wrong just beneath the surface.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars)
“Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights on.”—The Washington Post
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage
On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.
For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.
The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time, he might lose even more.
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As the Covenant prepares to begin a high-stakes colonization mission, a string of violent attacks exposes a conspiracy determined to destroy the ship before launch.
Alien Covenant: Origins
Horror · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion
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As the Covenant prepares to begin a high-stakes colonization mission, a string of violent attacks exposes a conspiracy determined to destroy the ship before launch. With two thousand colonists in danger, Captain Jacob Branson, Daniels, and security chief Daniel Lopé race to uncover the people behind the sabotage and stop the mission from collapsing before it ever leaves Earth’s orbit. This official prequel leans into corporate tension, conspiracy, and looming catastrophe within the Alien universe.
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The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani. A ship bound for Origae-6, carrying two thousand colonists beyond the limits of known space, this is make-or-break investment for the corporation—and for the future of all mankind.
Yet there are those who would die to stop the mission. As the colony ship hovers in Earth orbit, several violent events reveal a deadly conspiracy to sabotage the launch. While Captain Jacob Branson and his wife Daniels complete their preparations, security chief Daniel Lopé recruits the final key member of his team. Together they seek to stop the perpetrators before the ship and its passengers can be destroyed.
An original novel by the acclaimed ALAN DEAN FOSTER, author of the groundbreaking Alien novelization, Origins is the official chronicle of the events that led up to Alien: Covenant. It also reveals the world the colonists left behind.
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Markus is sent to an orbital research station expecting a routine assignment, only to find himself on the front line of a hidden war against an alien force…
Extinction Dream
Horror · Sci-Fi · First Contact
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Markus is sent to an orbital research station expecting a routine assignment, only to find himself on the front line of a hidden war against an alien force that attacks through nightmares. As fear and paranoia take hold, his squad must endure psychological torment, mounting losses, and an enemy they cannot even see. This sci-fi horror centers on isolation, mental unraveling, and the terror of fighting something that turns the mind against itself.
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A dark, science fiction horror novel featuring a mysterious alien enemy, from bestseller Andrew Najberg.
They prey on our nightmares...
Deployed in orbit to what he first believed to be a simple research station, a soldier named Markus is a member of a squad defending Earth on the front line of a secret war against an alien enemy that attacks telepathically, using our nightmares as weapons. They don’t know what the enemy looks like or even why they are attacking.
What they do know is that Earth is losing.
As they sink further into their deepest terrors, they believe they may finally have the chance to take the fight to their enemy – if the hell they’re living in doesn’t cause them to tear each other apart first.
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After a routine smuggling job goes wrong, Jack Kind and his crew are pulled into a dangerous transport mission tied to a military secret and rumors of an…
Deathform
Horror · Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi
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After a routine smuggling job goes wrong, Jack Kind and his crew are pulled into a dangerous transport mission tied to a military secret and rumors of an alien discovery in the Kuiper Belt. When the job turns into a double-cross and the cargo is finally opened, they are left facing a threat far beyond anything they expected. This sci-fi horror blends spacefaring suspense, conspiracy, and high-stakes survival with the fate of the solar system in the balance.
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A discovery on a remote moon outpost unleashes a shape-shifting alien that can wear human bodies and mimic its victims with terrifying precision.
Parasite
Horror · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact
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A discovery on a remote moon outpost unleashes a shape-shifting alien that can wear human bodies and mimic its victims with terrifying precision. As communication collapses and stations across space are left exposed, a small group of survivors must face a threat that is already spreading faster than anyone can contain it. This sci-fi horror delivers isolation, paranoia, and a fast-moving extinction-level nightmare.
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When a guard discovers an unusual lifeform on her remote moon outpost, she disregards protocol to investigate―with catastrophic consequences. It soon becomes clear she's stuck in isolation with an alien capable of incredible depravity. The parasite wears its victims' skins and adopts their personalities. It mimics the way they talk, the way they look, the way they act. It's the perfect disguise.
And by the time humanity realizes it's facing extinction, it's already too late.
As the alien's ruthless progress collapses communication networks, wipes out defenses, and leaves hundreds of stations to fend for themselves, a handful of remarkable individuals must find a way to battle the greatest threat the universe has ever encountered... or die trying.
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Kerys Loring joins an expedition to a distant alien ruin hoping it will revive her stalled career, but the mission quickly turns dangerous when she discovers her abusive…
Wayfarer: AV494
Horror · Sci-Fi
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Kerys Loring joins an expedition to a distant alien ruin hoping it will revive her stalled career, but the mission quickly turns dangerous when she discovers her abusive ex is already on site. As an unstoppable alien threat throws the outpost into chaos, she must navigate deadly corridors, buried truths, and a nightmare far worse than the past she tried to leave behind. This sci-fi horror blends survival, isolation, and creeping dread in a remote off-world setting.
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Kerys Loring hopes an expedition to a distant alien ruin will make her career—assuming she lives long enough to still have one.
Her last team made a significant find, but her bosses took all the recognition and grant money. When Avasar Biotechnology appeals to her unique combination of experience and desperation, she jumps at the chance, even if it means leaving her little brother behind for a three-year trip.
At least she’ll be thousands of light-years away from her abusive ex.
Within minutes of arrival, her excitement shatters at the sight of her ex already there. Clinging to the hope his position with botanical sciences will keep him away from her team, she forces herself to continue.
On her first day in the ruins, she makes a profound discovery… but something goes terribly wrong.
Her domineering ex soon becomes the least of her problems as an unstoppable alien threat plunges Wayfarer Outpost into chaos. Trapped in an isolated facility with death stalking every corridor, Kerys finds herself up against an even more insidious threat than ancient aliens: the truth.
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When a stranded bomber crew boards an abandoned alien ship, survival turns into a descent into something far worse.
The Dark Ship
Horror · Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi
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When a stranded bomber crew boards an abandoned alien ship, survival turns into a descent into something far worse. Captain Jeff Austin leads the last survivors deeper into the vessel in search of answers, only to find a hostile presence and horrors buried at its core. This sci-fi horror pick leans into isolation, pursuit, and the terror of exploring something that was never meant to be found.
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Captain Jeff Austin and his crew are stranded in the interstellar void after their bomber is destroyed. Their last hope is a giant alien spacecraft floating abandoned in space. But not long after gaining access, the crew’s worst fears are confirmed: they are not alone on board, and soon their lives are under threat from sinister aliens. There seems to be only one way out: Jeff sets off with the last survivors to the distant center of the ship to uncover the dark secrets of its extraterrestrial inhabitants. But nothing can prepare them for the horror that awaits them deep inside The Black Ship. Sci-Fi-Horror for fans of Alien, Event Horizon and Pandorum.
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The Unsuitable is the kind of gothic story that smiles politely right before everything goes deeply off the rails.
The Unsuitable
Horror · Romance · Thriller
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The Unsuitable is the kind of gothic story that smiles politely right before everything goes deeply off the rails. With a heroine convinced her dead mother lives in the scar on her neck, a parade of terrible suitors, and a courtship that only gets stranger from there, this one blends Victorian manners, dark humor, and creeping madness into something deliciously unsettling.
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Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that's also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment.
Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck.
Iseult's father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands—a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver—a true comedy of errors ensues.
As history's least conventional courtship progresses into talk of marriage, Iseult's mother becomes increasingly volatile and uncontrollable, and Iseult is forced to resort to extreme, often violent, measures to keep her in check.
As the day of the wedding nears, Iseult must decide whether (and how) to set the course of her life, with increasing interference from both her mother and father, tipping her ever closer to madness, and to an inevitable, devastating final act.
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Answering a distress call in deep space is already a terrible idea, and Contagion wastes no time proving it.
Contagion
Sci-Fi · Horror · Teen + Young Adult
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Answering a distress call in deep space is already a terrible idea, and Contagion wastes no time proving it. What starts as a routine rescue mission turns into a nightmare when the crew arrives to find a distant planet full of corpses and something deadly still lurking in the wreckage. Fast, creepy, and packed with survival tension, this YA sci-fi horror delivers monsters, mystery, and plenty of reasons to keep the lights on.
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Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery
Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy.
After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission.
When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project—including its members’ dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried—and some monsters are only too ready to awaken.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CONTAGION:
“Gripping, thrilling and terrifying in equal measures, Contagion is the perfect intersection of science fiction and horror—I couldn’t look away.”—Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Illuminae and Unearthed
“Few understand the true horror that lies in the empty unknown of space, but Erin Bowman nails it in Contagion. Read this one with the lights on!”—Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe series and Star Wars: Rebel Rising
“Erin Bowman’s Contagion is everything I want in my science fiction: a cast of smart characters on a desperate rescue mission forced to confront an elusive and unstoppable enemy. I absolutely loved this layered and thrilling adventure and can’t wait to dive back into this world again.”—Veronica Rossi, New York Times bestselling author of the Under the Never Sky series
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Going to Europa in search of life already feels risky.
Europa
Horror · Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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Going to Europa in search of life already feels risky. Discovering something ancient, trapped, and absolutely not friendly makes it much worse. Europa sends a mission beneath the moon’s frozen surface and into a nightmare waiting in the dark, turning scientific discovery into a brutal fight to survive. Cold, claustrophobic, and full of mounting dread, this is space horror built to keep the pressure on.
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The first mission to Europa—Jupiter's enigmatic moon—has landed, and humanity’s darkest fears are about to awaken.
For years, mankind has speculated that this frozen world harbors a hidden ocean twice the size of all Earth’s oceans combined—an ocean potentially teeming with life.
Driven by this tantalizing mystery, they venture forth to unlock its secrets. But what they discover in the abyssal depths is far beyond anything they could have imagined.
Nearly four hundred million miles from Earth, their search for life has succeeded. But in their triumph, they overlook the most terrifying truth: what they have found is something far older and more horrifying than they ever could have conceived. Something has been trapped in the dark for eons—watching, and waiting, for them.
Now, the crew stands at the threshold of unimaginable terror, realizing too late that Hell, in its purest form, is cold.
EUROPA: A brutal, heart-stopping descent into deep space horror by international bestselling author Greig Beck.
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Fast, gruesome, and built for readers who like their sci-fi with a serious body count.
2389
Post-Apocalyptic · Horror · Sci-Fi
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A luxury amusement park on the moon sounds fun right up until it sends out a distress call and then goes completely silent. 2389 takes that already terrible setup and runs with it, sending a team into Grand Galaxies to find out what went wrong and uncovering something far worse than a broken ride. Fast, gruesome, and built for readers who like their sci-fi with a serious body count.
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The happiest place in the galaxy just sent out a distress call...
Grand Galaxies is the most expensive amusement park ever created, built on the surface of the moon. For decades, rich families and honeymooning couples have gone there to have the time of their lives and no one has ever returned disappointed...
But communication with the moon has been lost.
Someone needs to go up there and see what’s wrong.
A unique and terrifying experience by a master of the genre. Sci-fi meets horror head on with the terrifying 2389. Grab your copy now and experience the fear for yourself.
"Iain Rob Wright scares the hell out of me." - J.A.Konrath
"Iain Rob Wright is sick and twisted!" - David Moody.
"Cuddle up to this novel and it might rip your throat out. A fun, thrilling read!" David T. Wilbanks - Co-author of Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road
"One of the BEST horror books I have read in YEARS!" - Eric S. Brown, author of Last Stand in a Dead Land.
"Iain Rob Wright brings true excitement to the horror genre, with wholly original stories and characters to route for." - Ryan C Thomas, author of Hissers, Rating's Game, and Origin of Pain.
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Making first contact was supposed to mean discovery, not absolute disaster.
Xeno
Horror · Sci-Fi · Cosmic Horror · Creature Feature · Eldritch Horror · First Contact
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Making first contact was supposed to mean discovery, not absolute disaster. Xeno traps a tiny crew aboard a colony ship with an ancient alien force that should have stayed lost in space, turning a routine journey into a full-blown nightmare. Dark, brutal, and built on rising dread, this is space horror that goes straight for the throat.
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A terrifying descent into space horror.
Sometimes in space you wake to a nightmare.
The huge spaceship the Xeno is en route to a new world light years from Earth, its payload of more than 50,000 cryogenically frozen colonists watched over by a supercomputer and a skeleton crew of only a dozen people.
When the ship comes into contact with a seemingly inert alien artefact drifting in space, the crew believes they've made a momentous discovery for all humankind. They’re unaware it’s the eve of true horror.
Soon it becomes clear the crew have unwittingly woken an evil so ancient and so powerful it threatens not only the ship and its slumbering passengers, but the future of the human race itself.
Recommended for mature readers due to graphic language, violence and sexual content.
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