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832 past books matching Horror
A kidnapped boy finds an unlikely ally in the forest surrounding his prison.
A Child Alone with Strangers
Horror
Our take
A kidnapped boy finds an unlikely ally in the forest surrounding his prison. As fear turns to fury, an ancient force awakens beneath the farmhouse, blurring the line between rescue and retribution. A Child Alone with Strangers is a haunting blend of supernatural horror and human cruelty, with 4.5 stars on Amazon and over 1,800 Goodreads ratings.
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“Fracassi’s novel hits me like a cross between McCammon and '80s King. Might be one of them summer blockbusters readers love.” —Laird Barron, author of Worse Angels
"A Child Alone with Strangers starts out as a slow burn procedural with supernatural elements and inexorably cranks itself into a pulse-pounding symphony of eldritch horrors and all-too-human violence. Philip Fracassi is the best sort of horror writer--one who is unafraid to hunt for light in even the darkest places." —Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters
When young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woods—using that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however, is that this ancient being has its own reasons for wanting the interlopers gone—there is something hidden beneath the house, tucked away in the dark, damp root cellar . . . waiting for its return.
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Paradise-1 was supposed to be humanity’s fresh start.
Paradise-1
Horror · Sci-Fi · Space Colonization
Our take
Paradise-1 was supposed to be humanity’s fresh start. Instead, it went silent. When Firewatch inspector Alexandra Petrova is sent to investigate the missing deep-space colony, she expects equipment failure or human error. What she finds is far worse. A tense, claustrophobic blend of sci-fi and horror where exploration turns into survival and every unanswered question makes things more dangerous.
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An electric blend of sci-fi and horror, Paradise-1 begins a terrifying new trilogy of exploration and survival in deep space from Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author David Wellington.
"A superior space thriller that never flags....Readers will be on the edge of their seats." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Paradise-1. Earth’s first deep space colony. For thousands of people, it was an opportunity for a new life. Until it went dark.
No communication has been received from the colony for months. And it falls to Firewatch inspector Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the Artemis to investigate.
What they find is more horrifying than anything they could have imagined.
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A trail of stolen bodies points toward a secret society willing to turn death into a private experiment.
Never Dead
Horror · Occult Horror
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A trail of stolen bodies points toward a secret society willing to turn death into a private experiment. In Never Dead, reporter Michael Jacobs investigates grave robberies outside 1920s Chicago and uncovers a wealthy circle funding illegal work beneath a mansion. This historical horror fits readers drawn to buried secrets, investigative dread, and science pushed past its moral limits.
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A series of grave robberies in the 1920’s go unsolved until reporter Michael Jacobs follows a new thread.
His investigation leads him to a small town in the suburbs of Chicago named Elk Hills. While there, he finds out more haunting information than the police ever discovered.
But with each interview bringing him closer to the truth, he finds himself becoming a part of the story he was looking to write.
At the same time, wealthy businessman Edmund Creighton organizes a group of equally wealthy families and individuals in the Chicago area to finance illegal experiments in the basement of his mansion.
These experiments require the presence of recently dead bodies which the members of the secret society are more than happy to acquire.
By the time these dark secrets are uncovered, it may be too late for Michael, or the truth, to make any difference.
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Alien hives promise safety to the desperate in rural Appalachia, and Crane accepts their offer to survive and finally live as himself.
You Weren’t Meant to Be Human
Horror · LGBTQIA+
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Alien hives promise safety to the desperate in rural Appalachia, and Crane accepts their offer to survive and finally live as himself. But when the hive demands his unborn child, refuge becomes horror. Identity, autonomy, and survival collide in this visceral LGBTQ+ horror novel with 4.2 stars on Amazon and over 6,300 Goodreads ratings.
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In gothic Paris, a forbidden love ignites between Claude and Esmeralda, turning Notre Dame into both sanctuary and prison.
The Hells of Notre Dame
LGBTQIA+ · Horror · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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In gothic Paris, a forbidden love ignites between Claude and Esmeralda, turning Notre Dame into both sanctuary and prison. As desire deepens and damnation looms, stolen moments lead toward an inevitable blaze. A sapphic dark fantasy retelling where Hunchback collides with Phantom, launching a steamy, twisted series for mature readers.
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One night was all it took.
I should have stayed away. I should have thrown away her scarf, banished Esmeralda from my mind, body, and soul, and never thought or spoke of her again. That would have been the best thing, the right thing.
But our Lord works in mysterious ways, and before I know it, the walls of Notre Dame become her prison as much as they are my sanctuary. And with temptation front and center, neither of us have the strength to resist. Our days become longing glances and coded whispers, our nights stolen kisses and caresses on borrowed time, because we both know the inescapable truth.
Our love can only end as it began—in fire. But as each day passes, and the more I fall under her spell, eternal damnation seems a small price to pay.
If Esmeralda is hell, I’ll go willingly.
The Hells of Notre Dame is a sapphic retelling of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the first book in The Phantom of Notre Dame series: where Hunchback collides with The Phantom of the Opera in the streets of gothic Paris. These LGBT+ dark fantasy romances are as steamy as they are twisted, and are intended for a mature adult audience.
Please note: while Claude and Esmeralda remain the main characters of every book, they will add partners of various genders to their consensually polyamorous relationship over the course of the series.
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In A Ship of Bones & Teeth, a cursed princess seeks freedom after selling her soul for love that turned cruel.
A Ship of Bones & Teeth
Horror · Romantasy · Dark Romance
Our take
In A Ship of Bones & Teeth, a cursed princess seeks freedom after selling her soul for love that turned cruel. Taken captive by a feared pirate with his own dark vendetta, she finds desire, danger, and vengeance entwined on haunted seas. A standalone gothic fantasy romance retelling from New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle.
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A STANDALONE gothic dark fantasy pirate romance re-telling of The Little Mermaid from the New York Times Bestselling Author of River of Shadows and Blood Orange.
Princess Maren is a woman with a secret.
When she was just 16-years old, she sold her soul to the sea witch Edonia, giving up a life underwater in exchange for the love of Prince Aerik on land. But after a decade of abuse and misery inflicted by the cruel prince, Maren wants nothing more than to leave him and her royal role behind and find Edonia to reverse the spell.
An opportunity for escape presents itself when the prince and princess are traveling overseas and are taken hostage by a band of notorious pirates, led by the fearsome Captain Ramsay "Bones" Battista. Maren has heard the sordid stories about the infamous pirate--not only is his ship supposedly haunted and crewed by the damned, but that no prisoners ever survive. Fortunately for Maren, she learns that the captain also has a score to settle with the sea witch. With any luck, Maren may be able to get her old life back, even if it's being held in the captain's wicked hands.
But Ramsay gets more than he bargained for when he learns who--and what--Maren is, and that her appetite for revenge, freedom, and bloodlust rivals his.
Meanwhile Maren finds herself falling for the pirate's dark nature, even as she discovers that Ramsay has a secret more deadly than her own.
When it comes to the high seas, not all monsters lurk beneath the surface.
Content Warning: Though this is a fantasy, it is also a dark(ISH) romance with potential triggers. A full list can be found inside the book. There is a spinoff of this book called Ocean of Sin and Starlight about another couple. However A Ship of Bones and Teeth acts as a standalone and has an HEA with no cliffhanger.
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In a plague-ravaged world where dreams are dangerous, Willa is pulled into a dark realm ruled by the Carrion King.
Carrion
Horror · Romantasy · Dark Romance
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In a plague-ravaged world where dreams are dangerous, Willa is pulled into a dark realm ruled by the Carrion King. To protect her secrets, she strikes a bargain that blurs the line between enemy and desire. A lush, unsettling fantasy romance inspired by Neverland lore, where nightmares feel more real than dreams.
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In a world devastated by plague, Willa has spent her life on the run: both from the mysterious illness that destroys the ability to dream and a secret that would get her imprisoned forever.
But when an unknown power calls her to the top of a high rise one night, there is no outrunning it. Willa falls headfirst into a world shaped by dark dreams and wild magic, a once vibrant kingdom now held in the malevolent thrall of a man carved straight from nightmares—the Carrion King.
To keep her secrets safe from the cruel and cunning king, Willa makes a dangerous bargain that will determine the fate of both their worlds. But as Willa is drawn deeper into the Carrion King’s seductive realm, she discovers far more than she expected beneath his lethal exterior. The line begins to blur between hate and love, the true and the imagined, and she soon realizes victory may cost not only her freedom, but her heart.
In a fairytale land of dreams, where the fantastical is more tangible than reality, Willa must decide whether to sacrifice everything as a hero or become a villain to save herself.
Author’s note: In the Darkly Dreaming universe, there are infinite worlds and realms. Somewhere, the stories of Peter Pan we were told as children are playing out alongside this one, a far darker tale. So, while Carrion is based in Neverland lore, the events and characters are different from those you’ve heard before. We’ve done exactly what Pan always feared we would—we grew up. And perhaps, our stories grow with us. Now we’re old enough to realize there was no hero in Neverland, and often times, nightmares are far more corporeal than the sweetness of dreams.
Carrion is an adult fantasy romance, intended for mature audiences. Readers are encouraged to check content warnings, available on the author’s website.
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Journalist Jack Sparks set out to debunk the occult and document its frauds.
The Last Days of Jack Sparks
Horror
Our take
Journalist Jack Sparks set out to debunk the occult and document its frauds. Instead, he vanished after a disturbing video surfaced under his name. Told through transcripts and testimony, this psychological horror unravels skepticism, ego, and terror with chilling precision. An Editors’ Pick with strong reader ratings and praise from leading voices in modern horror.
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"Ingenious and funny . . . Magnificent." -- Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta
Jack Sparks died while writing this book.
It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed.
Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account.
Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed -- until now.
"Wow. Seriously hard to put down." -- M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
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After her father’s violent death, young Mara is told she and her mother must stay inside to survive a broken world.
We Can Never Leave This Place
Horror
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After her father’s violent death, young Mara is told she and her mother must stay inside to survive a broken world. A strange protector arrives. Safety comes at a cost. This bleak, unsettling dark fantasy reads like a modern Grimm fairy tale, exploring inherited grief, control, and the terrifying question of what we surrender when we’re promised protection.
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"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away."
A precocious young girl with an unusual imagination is sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity. After her father dies violently, young Mara is surprised to find her mother welcoming a new guest into their home, claiming that he will protect them from the world of devastation and destruction outside their door.
A grotesque and thrilling dark fantasy, We Can Never Leave This Place is a harrowing portrait of inherited grief and familial trauma.
"We Can Never Leave This Place is the apocalyptic 21st century Grimm's fairy tale you need in your life. Eric LaRocca plucks images directly from the muck and mire of our id and fashions them into something grotesquely beautiful." Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club
"We Can Never Leave This Place is a bleak and tender, monstrous and visceral fable of family and loss, and the courage it takes to confront them both." Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher
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This is not the fairy tale you remember.
The Salt Grows Heavy
Fantasy · Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Dark Fantasy · Occult Horror
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This is not the fairy tale you remember. After a kingdom burns and her daughters feast on its ruins, a sharp-toothed mermaid flees into a frozen forest with a plague doctor hiding their own sins. What follows is brutal, lyrical, and unsettling—a dark fairy tale that demands its characters embrace monstrosity to survive.
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“Khaw’s poetic prose and stylish approach to gore make it a blood-soaked, unforgettable gem.” —The New York Times
From Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth, comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairy tale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.
A Best Horror Book of 2023 (The New York Times, Library Journal) • A Best Book of 2023 (NPR) • A Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award Finalist! • An Indie Next Pick
You may think you know how the fairy tale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes.
On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three “saints” who control them.
The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.
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Ideal for readers drawn to cosmic horror, probability-bending mysteries, existential questions, and world-threatening stakes.
Lucky Day
Eldritch Horror · Horror · Cosmic Horror
Our take
An instant USA Today and Indie bestseller called “an existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights” by Olivie Blake, Lucky Day follows former statistics professor Vera as she investigates an impossibly lucky casino connected to a catastrophe that killed eight million people in bizarre accidents, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 550 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers drawn to cosmic horror, probability-bending mysteries, existential questions, and world-threatening stakes.
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A kindhearted dogcatcher falls in love with a woman hiding a deadly secret in modern Los Angeles.
Sharp Teeth
Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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A kindhearted dogcatcher falls in love with a woman hiding a deadly secret in modern Los Angeles. As ancient werewolf packs rise and violence spreads, love becomes a liability. This literary horror thriller blends crime, myth, and identity, earning 4.3 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings.
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A Los Angeles dogcatcher falls for a female werewolf desperate to keep her monstrous identity a secret in this debut literary horror thriller.
An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down-and-out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will—and they're bent on domination at any cost.
Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kindhearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she's more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results . . .
Blending dark humor and epic themes with card-playing dogs, crystal meth labs, surfing, and carne asada tacos, Sharp Teeth captures the pace and feel of a graphic novel while remaining "as ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about" [Nick Hornby, The Believer].
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