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833 past books matching Horror
Cherie Priest’s The Family Plot, a 4.1-star haunted-house novel with over 4,000 Goodreads ratings, blends gothic dread with modern salvage work.
The Family Plot
Horror
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Cherie Priest’s The Family Plot, a 4.1-star haunted-house novel with over 4,000 Goodreads ratings, blends gothic dread with modern salvage work. When Dahlia Dutton’s crew takes on the Withrow estate, they discover secrets, shadows, and a furious spirit that refuses to be erased. Praised as “spectacular” by Publishers Weekly, this ghost story raises the bar for modern horror.
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Dahlia Dutton knows the salvage business. Her family’s company dismantles historic homes piece by piece, and she’s seen her share of decay. But nothing prepares her for the Withrow estate.
Hired to strip the sprawling Chattanooga property, Dahlia and her crew arrive expecting old wood, antiques, and profit. What they find is a house that feels alive. Rooms whisper. Shadows stretch. And the cemetery left off the paperwork hints at secrets Augusta Withrow never intended to share.
As the team pries into the home’s bones, the past refuses to stay buried. Something angry lingers inside, growing bolder by the day. For Dahlia, it’s no longer just about salvage. It’s about survival. Cherie Priest’s The Family Plot delivers a chilling modern haunted-house tale.
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One Yellow Eye turns zombie horror into a study of grief, obsession, and the dangerous bargains people make for love.
One Yellow Eye
Horror
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One Yellow Eye turns zombie horror into a study of grief, obsession, and the dangerous bargains people make for love. Kesta Shelley hides her infected husband while searching for a cure, but his decline and her unraveling threaten to expose them both. This belongs with horror that favors emotional decay, scientific tension, and dread that feels painfully intimate.
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In this “compulsively readable” (Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author), unique spin on zombie horror, a brilliant female scientist desperately searches for a cure after a devastating epidemic while also hiding a monumental secret—her undead husband.
How far would you go to save your marriage? For British scientist Kesta Shelley, there is no limit.
Having always preferred the company of microbes, Kesta has spent her life looking down the barrel of a microscope rather than cultivating personal relationships. But that changed when Kesta met Tim—her cheerleader, her best friend, her absolute everything. So, when he was one of the last people in London to be infected with a perplexing virus that left the city ravaged, Kesta went into triage mode.
Though the government has rounded up and disposed of all the infected, Kesta is able to keep her husband (un)alive and hidden with resources from the hospital where she works. She spends her days reviewing biopsy slides and her evenings caring for him, but he’s clearly declining. The sedatives aren’t working like they used to, and his violent outbursts are becoming more frequent. As Kesta races against the clock, her colleagues start noticing changes in her behavior and appearance. She is withering away, self-medicating with alcohol, and has stopped attending her mandated ZARG (Zombie Apocalypse Recovery Group) meetings. Her care for Tim has spiraled into absolute obsession.
There are whispers of a top-secret lab working on a cure, and Kesta clings to the possibility of being recruited like a lifeline. But can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse…will they trigger another zombie outbreak?
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Robert R. McCammon’s Swan Song—winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a World Fantasy Award finalist—is a New York Times bestselling classic of postapocalyptic horror.
Swan Song
Horror · Occult Horror
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Robert R. McCammon’s Swan Song—winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a World Fantasy Award finalist—is a New York Times bestselling classic of postapocalyptic horror. With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this epic tale follows a gifted child whose visions and healing touch may be the last hope against a rising evil born of nuclear fire.
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One moment, nine-year-old Swan is a girl drifting between trailer parks with her mother. The next, nuclear fire reduces civilization to ash. From the ruins emerge survivors—some desperate, some monstrous, all changed forever.
On Manhattan’s streets, a homeless woman follows the guidance of a cursed amulet. In the mountains of Idaho, an orphan learns survival through violence. Across the Great Plains, Swan discovers she has a gift—visions of the future and a strange power to heal.
But her visions also reveal something worse: a malevolent shape-shifter born of apocalypse itself. It is coming for her. And in a world of madmen, mutants, and dust storms, this child is humanity’s final hope against extinction. If she falters, so does mankind.
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Clive Barker’s Imajica—celebrated as “a Chinese puzzle box constructed on a universal scale” (Washington Post)—is a masterwork of dark fantasy.
Imajica
Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Occult Horror
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Clive Barker’s Imajica—celebrated as “a Chinese puzzle box constructed on a universal scale” (Washington Post)—is a masterwork of dark fantasy. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this epic blends myth, forbidden love, and otherworldly intrigue as a sensualist, a mysterious woman, and an alien assassin journey through five dimensions toward a revelation that changes everything.
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Art forger John Furie Zacharias—better known as Gentle—lives for indulgence, not destiny. But when he crosses paths with Judith Odell, a woman whose influence over fate runs deeper than she realizes, and Pie ’oh’ pah, an enigmatic assassin from another world, his carefully constructed life begins to shatter.
Their journey unravels the secrets of Imajica, a vast system of five dimensions bound to Earth in ways humanity has long forgotten. Each realm is stranger, darker, and more dangerous than the last, peopled with beings who blur the line between beauty and terror.
What begins as a search for truth spirals into a revelation capable of remaking reality itself. Forbidden passions ignite, betrayals multiply, and Gentle must face the ultimate question: who—and what—is he really?
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Scott Hawkins’ The Library at Mount Char—praised as “wholly original” by The Wall Street Journal—is a darkly funny, genre-defying fantasy.
The Library at Mount Char
Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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Scott Hawkins’ The Library at Mount Char—praised as “wholly original” by The Wall Street Journal—is a darkly funny, genre-defying fantasy. With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, it blends horror, humor, and cosmic stakes in the tale of Carolyn, a woman raised by a godlike figure and armed with secrets that could remake—or end—the world.
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Carolyn was once an ordinary American girl. Now she’s something else entirely. Raised alongside her adopted siblings by the man they call Father, she’s spent years locked inside a Library that holds the secrets of creation itself. There, she’s studied rituals, languages, and powers that make her more than human—and maybe less.
Now Father has vanished. Maybe he’s dead. Maybe he isn’t. Either way, the Library and its terrible power stand unguarded, and Carolyn intends to claim it. She isn’t the only one with a plan, and the beings aligned against her could crush her without blinking.
But Carolyn is patient. Calculating. Dangerous. In the coming war to decide who becomes God, she has prepared for everything—except remembering what it means to be human.
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In Calcutta, a literary search turns into a descent through grief, violence, and spiritual dread.
Song of Kali
Horror · Thriller
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In Calcutta, a literary search turns into a descent through grief, violence, and spiritual dread. In Song of Kali, an American editor follows the trail of a missing manuscript and finds himself pulled toward a cult shaped by death, obsession, and the city’s darkest edges. It’s a bleak, unsettling horror novel driven by atmosphere, psychological collapse, and the fear of what devotion can become.
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The World Fantasy Award winner by the author of the Hyperion Cantos and Carrion Comfort: An American finds himself encircled by horrors in Calcutta.
Praised by Dean Koontz as "the best novel in the genre I can remember," Song of Kali follows an American magazine editor who journeys to the brutally bleak, poverty-stricken Indian city in search of a manuscript by a mysterious poet—but instead is drawn into an encounter with the cult of Kali, goddess of death.
A chilling voyage into the squalor and violence of the human condition, this novel is considered by many to be the best work by the author of The Terror, who has been showered with accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Hugo Award.
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Michael McDowell’s The Elementals, a 4.3-star horror classic with over 22,000 Goodreads ratings, is a Southern Gothic masterpiece.
The Elementals
Horror
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Michael McDowell’s The Elementals, a 4.3-star horror classic with over 22,000 Goodreads ratings, is a Southern Gothic masterpiece. On Alabama’s Gulf Coast, two families summer beside a third Victorian house, buried by dunes and filled with something unspeakable. Terrifying, atmospheric, and unforgettable, this haunted house tale cemented McDowell as one of horror’s greats.
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On Alabama’s Gulf Coast, three Victorian houses sit in the isolated community of Beldame. Two are homes for the Savage and McCray families, places of refuge for the summer. The third house, half-buried beneath a shifting dune of blinding white sand, is different. It has never been lived in, but it has never been empty.
For Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray, childhood memories of the house still bring terror. For the rest of the family, it is a curiosity, until unsettling events turn their summer into a nightmare. Whatever waits inside the third house has killed before, and now it is ready to kill again.
Michael McDowell’s The Elementals is a Southern Gothic masterpiece of horror, hailed by Stephen King as one of the finest paperback originals ever written.
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A struggling riverboat captain accepts a deal from a wealthy stranger whose secrets grow darker with every mile down the Mississippi.
Fevre Dream
Fantasy · Horror · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy · Supernatural Horror
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A struggling riverboat captain accepts a deal from a wealthy stranger whose secrets grow darker with every mile down the Mississippi. Set in 1857, Fevre Dream blends gothic horror, historical detail, and moral reckoning in a chilling reinvention of the vampire novel. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and more than 32,000 Goodreads ratings, it remains a genre classic.
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A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet; nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. York’s reasons for traversing the powerful Mississippi are to be none of Marsh’s concern—no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious York’s actions may prove. Not until the maiden voyage of Fevre Dream does Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare—and humankind’s most impossible dream.
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Jennifer McMahon’s The Winter People, a national bestseller with 4.1 stars and over 90,000 Goodreads ratings, is a chilling thriller of grief, ghosts, and family bonds.
The Winter People
Horror · Psychological Horror
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Jennifer McMahon’s The Winter People, a national bestseller with 4.1 stars and over 90,000 Goodreads ratings, is a chilling thriller of grief, ghosts, and family bonds. When Ruthie’s mother disappears, a hidden diary from 1908 unravels a century-old mystery of love and death in Vermont. Atmospheric and haunting, this novel grips until the very last page.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of The Invited will shock you with a simmering psychological thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters. • "One of the year's most chilling novels." —The Miami Herald
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she’s not the only person looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.
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Atmospheric, unsettling, and unforgettable, this novel is perfect for fans of Stephen King.
American Elsewhere
Mystery · Horror
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Robert Jackson Bennett’s American Elsewhere, a Goodreads Choice Award nominee with 4.0 stars and over 8,000 ratings, is a haunting supernatural thriller. When ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her mother’s home in the mysterious town of Wink, New Mexico, she uncovers secrets that are anything but human. Atmospheric, unsettling, and unforgettable, this novel is perfect for fans of Stephen King.
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From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.
Some places are too good to be true.
Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map: Wink, New Mexico.
In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things.
After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different . . .
"Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman." -- Library Journal
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Joe Hill’s The Pram, a chilling entry in the Creature Feature collection, holds 4.0 out of 5 stars with more than 26,000 Goodreads ratings.
The Pram
Horror · Thriller
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Joe Hill’s The Pram, a chilling entry in the Creature Feature collection, holds 4.0 out of 5 stars with more than 26,000 Goodreads ratings. When a grieving husband becomes obsessed with a decrepit baby carriage, he begins hearing impossible coos inside. Twisted, eerie, and unforgettable, this short horror story explores how desire can summon nightmares.
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Willy and Marianne wanted a child, but hope has slipped away. Their quiet farmhouse in Maine feels emptier with every passing year, until a battered old baby carriage enters Willy’s life. Loaned as nothing more than a grocery hauler, the pram soon becomes something far more disturbing. The creak of its wheels soothes him. The coos from inside are sweet, impossible, and terrifying.
Alone on a forest path, Willy begins to wonder whether grief has broken him or whether the pram has brought him exactly what he craved. But some wishes come true at a terrible cost.
Joe Hill’s The Pram, part of the Creature Feature collection, is a nightmarish tale of yearning, madness, and horror that lingers long after the last page.
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Sarah Gailey’s Spread Me, from the bestselling author of Just Like Home, is a 4.2-star speculative horror novella steeped in dread and desire.
Spread Me
Horror · Psychological Horror
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Sarah Gailey’s Spread Me, from the bestselling author of Just Like Home, is a 4.2-star speculative horror novella steeped in dread and desire. When a desert research team brings a buried specimen inside, they unleash a parasitic hunger that seeks a human host. Seductive, unsettling, and impossible to put down, this chilling survival story will linger long after the last page.
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Kinsey thrives on isolation. Leading a research outpost in the desert gives her the solitude she craves, far from temptation and distraction. But when her crew uncovers a strange specimen buried beneath the sands, everything changes. Against protocol, Kinsey brings it inside.
What seems at first like a scientific breakthrough soon becomes something darker. The specimen is alive, hungry, and searching for a warm host. As tensions rise inside the outpost, desire and paranoia twist the team against one another. The more Kinsey resists, the stronger its pull becomes.
From bestselling author Sarah Gailey, Spread Me is a seductive and terrifying tale of survival, obsession, and the danger of letting something alien too close. Some hungers cannot be denied.
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