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This list includes horror titles that are filled with suspense and rich with detail. You will find a mix of classic titles from authors like Shirley Jackson or Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, or contemporary authors like Ruth Ware, Paul Tremblay, or Sylvia Moreno-Garcia.
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Book
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After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman,... |
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The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Format: Book
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To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world... |
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In a dark, dark wood
Ruth Ware - Scout Press
Format: Book
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In a dark, dark wood
Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back.
There was a dark, dark house
Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen do arrives. Is this... |
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The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel
Paul Tremblay - William Morrow
Format: Book
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Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.
One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard,... |
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Final Girls: A Novel
Riley Sager - Dutton
Format: Book
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Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press... |
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The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Book
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A tale of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition.
The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge,... |
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact,... |
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Fledgling: A Novel
Octavia E. Butler - Seven Stories Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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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, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover... |
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The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe - Running Press; abridged edition edition
Format: Paperback
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This collection of Edgar Allan Poe's work brings together poetry and prose, including "The Conqueror Worm," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
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Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": The Authorized Graphic Adaptation
Miles Hyman - Hill and Wang
Format: Book
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Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and harrowing, it raises troubling questions about conformity, tradition, and the specter of ritualized violence that haunts even the most... |
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Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The MIT Press
Format: Paperback
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein... |
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Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice - Random House
Format: Paperback
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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... |
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The Accursed: A Novel
Joyce Carol Oates - Ecco; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power. New Jersey, 1905: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a nearby farm, Socialist author Upton... |
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
Neil Gaiman - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Book
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Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother.... |
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Horrorstor: A Novel
Grady Hendrix - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback
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Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
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Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Ellen Datlow - Saga Press
Format: Book
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Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen Datlow—the most lauded editor in short works of supernatural suspense and dark fantasy. The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories is her definitive collection of ghost stories.
These thirty stories, including all new works... |
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Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology
JONATHAN MABERRY - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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In 1968 the world experienced a brand new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new...and terrifying. Since then, zombies have... |
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