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833 past books matching Horror
When eight-year-old Bela’s imaginary “Other Mommy” starts asking to go inside her heart, the game turns into something far darker.
Incidents Around the House
Horror · Thriller · Occult Horror · Supernatural Horror · Suspense
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When eight-year-old Bela’s imaginary “Other Mommy” starts asking to go inside her heart, the game turns into something far darker. From Bird Box author Josh Malerman, Incidents Around the House is a haunting, visceral story of innocence under siege. A Bram Stoker Award nominee with 4.5 stars on Amazon, it’s the kind of horror that lingers.
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To eight-year-old Bela, her world is small and safe—Mommy, Daddo, Grandma Ruth. And then there’s Other Mommy, the voice that whispers from the dark and asks the same terrible question every day: “Can I go inside your heart?”
When strange incidents begin to shake their home, Bela realizes the question isn’t just pretend. Other Mommy is growing stronger, more desperate, and she’s done waiting for permission. As fear creeps through the cracks of her parents’ failing marriage, Bela’s only refuge is the fragile bond of family—one that may not hold against what’s coming.
From Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box, comes a story of innocence under siege and horror that hits where it hurts. A Bram Stoker Award nominee and Locus Award finalist, Incidents Around the House will leave you breathless.
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What begins as childish fascination turns cruel, then impossible to contain.
The Apparition Phase
Horror · Occult Horror
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What begins as childish fascination turns cruel, then impossible to contain. In The Apparition Phase, twins Tim and Abi stage a fake haunting that unleashes consequences far darker than they imagined. The novel blends suburban unease, adolescent obsession, and ghost story dread into a haunting British horror that lingers in grief, guilt, and the terror of things that should have stayed buried.
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Some ghosts never leave us.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2021
'A wild rural gothic with some slick plotting . . . the perfect novel for our phantom present' Guardian
'Outstanding . . . ideal for fans of Andrew Michael Hurley' Metro
Twins Tim and Abi have always been different from their peers, spending their evenings in the attic of their parents' suburban house, poring over reports of the unexplained. Obsessed with photographs of ghostly apparitions, they decide to fake their own, and use it to frighten a girl at school.
But what was only supposed to be a harmless prank sets in motion a deadly and terrifying chain of events that neither of them could have predicted...
'Clear your diary, switch off your phone, and get lost in this atmospheric and madly gripping ghost story' Daily Mirror
'A nostalgic delight' Irish Independent
'Intriguing, atmospheric and utterly terrifying in parts' My Weekly
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Grief opens the door to a darker fairy tale in this haunting novel.
The Book of Lost Things
Literary Fiction · Horror · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age · Speculative Fiction
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Grief opens the door to a darker fairy tale in this haunting novel. After his mother’s death, twelve-year-old David slips into a warped storybook world filled with cruel kings, twisted myths, and dangerous bargains. What begins as an escape becomes a reckoning, as David must confront loss, growing up, and the cost of the stories we cling to.
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New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own—populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things. Taking readers on a vivid journey through the loss of innocence into adulthood and beyond, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly tells a dark and compelling tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.
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Edited by Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming unites legends like N. K. Jemisin, Tananarive Due, and Nnedi Okorafor in a groundbreaking anthology of Black horror.
Out There Screaming
Horror
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Edited by Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming unites legends like N. K. Jemisin, Tananarive Due, and Nnedi Okorafor in a groundbreaking anthology of Black horror. Winner of the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Locus Awards, this 4.3 out of 5 stars bestseller redefines what it means to be afraid. Reality is the scariest monster of all.
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The monsters aren’t always supernatural. Sometimes they wear a badge, drive the night bus, or look back at you in the mirror. Out There Screaming, edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams, gathers a powerhouse lineup of Black authors to explore horror rooted in both the otherworldly and the all-too-real.
From haunted highways to cursed legacies, each story in this anthology exposes the thin line between societal fear and supernatural terror. Contributors like N. K. Jemisin, Tananarive Due, and Nnedi Okorafor deliver tales that disturb, challenge, and linger long after the lights go out.
Winner of the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Locus Awards, this collection proves that horror is more than monsters—it’s the truth we refuse to face.
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A missing daughter.
The Invention of Sound
Horror · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Psychological Horror · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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A missing daughter. A Hollywood sound artist who makes screams feel too real. The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, is a haunting dive into grief, art, and obsession. Critics call it “disturbing and brilliant,” and readers rate it 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon. Prepare to hear the horror behind the silence.
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Seventeen years after his daughter vanished, Gates Foster lives in the echo of her screams. When a new lead surfaces in Hollywood, a single, chilling sound, hope claws its way back. Somewhere behind the glamour and the gloss, someone knows what happened to Lucy.
Mitzi Ives is Hollywood’s reigning queen of fear. As a Foley artist, she builds terror one scream at a time, crafting horror so convincing it could almost be real. But Mitzi’s perfection hides something darker, an inheritance of violence that won’t stay buried.
As Gates hunts the truth and Mitzi chases her next masterpiece, their paths collide in a nightmare of obsession, grief, and art gone too far. The closer they get to the truth, the louder the horror becomes.
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Perfect for fans of supernatural suspense and archaeological mysteries with bite.
Badlands
Horror · Occult Horror
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From #1 New York Times bestselling duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child comes Badlands, an Editors’ Pick and 4.6-star Amazon thriller. When FBI Agent Corrie Swanson and archaeologist Nora Kelly uncover ritual deaths in the desert, they awaken something ancient and vengeful. Perfect for fans of supernatural suspense and archaeological mysteries with bite.
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When a woman’s skeleton is discovered in the New Mexico desert, FBI Agent Corrie Swanson is called to investigate. The victim’s final moments are a mystery. She stripped her clothes, walked into the sun, and died clutching ancient lightning stones once used to summon gods. Suicide or sacrifice?
To uncover the truth, Corrie teams up with archaeologist Nora Kelly, whose expertise in ancient rituals uncovers a chilling possibility. When another body appears under the same eerie circumstances, the line between history and horror begins to blur.
In a landscape of haunted ruins and buried secrets, something long dormant has awakened. From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Badlands delivers a pulse-pounding mystery steeped in ancient terror.
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Hiron Ennes’s Leech, winner of the RUSA Best Horror Novel of 2023, merges gothic dread with sci-fi brilliance.
Leech
Horror · Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction
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Hiron Ennes’s Leech, winner of the RUSA Best Horror Novel of 2023, merges gothic dread with sci-fi brilliance. Praised by Gillian Flynn as “beautifully written” and “strangely humane,” this 4.4 out of 5 stars debut follows a parasitic doctor battling a rival infection in a frozen chateau. Equal parts The Thing and Wuthering Heights, it is horrifying, elegant, and unforgettable.
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Deep in the frozen north, the baron’s doctor is dead. His replacement arrives to uncover how the body failed—and discovers a secret more unsettling than decay. The Institute has ruled medicine for centuries, its doctors more organism than individual, a collective mind that heals, controls, and consumes.
But now something new is spreading through the chateau. A parasite. A rival. A living contagion that threatens to devour the Institute itself. As the doctor hunts the infection, identity blurs and evolution becomes warfare.
Hiron Ennes’s Leech is a haunting blend of gothic horror and science fiction, a meditation on body, mind, and the cost of survival.
Humanity is no longer the dominant species. The question is whether it ever was.
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Ray Bradbury’s The October Country collects nineteen eerie tales that blend poetic horror with human heart.
The October Country
Horror · Sci-Fi
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Ray Bradbury’s The October Country collects nineteen eerie tales that blend poetic horror with human heart. From ghostly carnivals to drowned cities, these stories capture the haunting beauty of autumn’s edge. With 4.5 out of 5 stars, this timeless classic cements Bradbury as the Grand Master of dark imagination. Enter if you dare, but you may never leave.
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Step into The October Country, where twilight lingers, midnights never end, and every shadow hides a story. In nineteen haunting tales, Ray Bradbury peels back the skin of the ordinary to reveal the strange, the sorrowful, and the supernatural beneath.
A drowned city whispers of the dead. A carnival hums with secret hungers. In forgotten towns and fog-drenched hills, the everyday tilts toward the uncanny, and human longing becomes its own ghost.
With poetic dread and piercing empathy, Bradbury captures the dark beauty of fear itself, transforming horror into art.
For readers of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, this collection is both a love letter to the macabre and an invitation to linger where autumn never ends.
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Mark Z. Danielewski’s Tom’s Crossing, praised by Stephen King as “amazing” and “unlike anything else,” delivers a blood-soaked masterpiece of friendship, horror, and myth.
Tom’s Crossing
Horror · Literary Fiction · Men's Fiction
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Mark Z. Danielewski’s Tom’s Crossing, praised by Stephen King as “amazing” and “unlike anything else,” delivers a blood-soaked masterpiece of friendship, horror, and myth. When two boys try to save doomed horses in 1982 Utah, they ignite a nightmare that reshapes their world. With 4.5 out of 5 stars, this literary horror epic cements Danielewski’s legend.
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From the author of House of Leaves comes a haunting, ambitious tale of courage, consequence, and the monsters we create.
In 1982, in the desolate outskirts of Orvop, Utah, two friends set out to rescue a pair of horses bound for slaughter. What begins as an act of compassion spirals into violence, myth, and madness. The dead rise, the mountain falls, and the truth of what happened at Katanogos becomes legend.
Through fractured memories and ghostly echoes, Tom’s Crossing explores how innocence curdles into horror and bravery walks hand in hand with regret.
Mark Z. Danielewski weaves a story as vast as it is intimate, blurring the line between epic and elegy.
Every act of mercy carries a price.
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Returning home after personal failure exposes more than buried memories.
A Ghost Arrives
Horror · Occult Horror · Suspense
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Returning home after personal failure exposes more than buried memories. A Ghost Arrives follows Wallace Harper as strange nocturnal disturbances in his childhood house reveal a presence tied to long-suppressed family wounds. When his sister becomes a target, the haunting turns violent and intimate. This is a restrained supernatural horror focused on inherited trauma, fractured relationships, and the cost of secrets left to fester.
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Every family has its secrets. Every ghost has its reasons.
After losing his job and moving back home with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers something else has taken up residence in his childhood home. Something that only shows its face when the sun goes down...
What starts as an eerie game of phantom footsteps and voices in the dark soon turns sinister when Wallace's sister, Rachel, discovers she too is being stalked by a malevolent force. With danger looming on their doorstep, Wallace and Rachel soon find themselves ensnared in a violent plot of family secrets and deep wounds that never healed.
Note to the reader: No harm befalls the impish cockatiel, Darcy, in this story.
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Donald Ray Pollock’s The Devil All the Time, now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson, delivers a dark, riveting portrait of 1960s America.
The Devil All the Time
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
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Donald Ray Pollock’s The Devil All the Time, now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson, delivers a dark, riveting portrait of 1960s America. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this Editors’ Pick blends Gothic grit and literary power, following a preacher, a pair of serial killers, and a boy destined for violence and redemption.
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Faith, violence, and corruption collide in a world where good men are hard to find and harder to keep alive.
In 1960s southern Ohio and West Virginia, the line between salvation and sin is drawn in blood. Willard Russell, a haunted veteran, turns to desperate acts to save his dying wife. Carl and Sandy Henderson prowl the highways, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers documenting their victims before ending their lives. A preacher runs from justice, and a boy named Arvin Russell grows into the kind of man this world creates—violent, loyal, and scarred by faith.
The Devil All the Time weaves these lives together into a chilling portrait of postwar America. It’s literary noir at its most brutal and beautiful, now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson.
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Seven years after the Atargatis vanished, a new expedition returns to the Mariana Trench in search of the truth.
Into the Drowning Deep
Horror · Dystopian · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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Seven years after the Atargatis vanished, a new expedition returns to the Mariana Trench in search of the truth. For Victoria Stewart, it’s a mission to uncover her sister’s fate and confront what lurks beneath. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant delivers a chilling fusion of science and horror with over 60,000 Goodreads ratings.
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New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life.
The ocean is home to many myths,
But some are deadly. . .
Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a tragedy.
Now a new crew has been assembled. But this time they're not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life's work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost.
Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves.
But the secrets of the deep come with a price.
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