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Best Horror Books

If best horror books is on your reading list, you're in the right place. We've pulled together a focused selection of fiction books — from enduring classics to the titles everyone is talking about right now.

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22

by Stephen Jones

2011

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most com…

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Sacrificial Animals

by Kailee Pedersen

2024

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up alongside her family's farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology. T…

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Tantrum

by Rachel Eve Moulton

2026

In this electric horror novel from the author of The Insatiable Volt Sisters, an exhausted mother thinks her newborn might be a monster. She’s right. Thea’s third pregnancy was her easiest. She wasn’t consumed with anxiety about the baby. S…

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The Black Castle

by Les Daniels

2018

The Black Castle is a fast-moving tale of battle between brothers. One is seen as evil because he is a vampire, while the other is perceived as good because he is a man of God. But the vampire only does what he has to do to survive while th…

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Kaiki-- Uncanny Tales from Japan

2010

Volume 2 of a 3-volume series covering the evolution and scope of Japanese "kaiki" fiction: uncanny tales, including ghost stories, weird tales and subtle horror. Translations by experts in the field bring an entirely new genre of…

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The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature

by Brian J. Frost

2007

Few historical relics have exerted such a hold on our imaginations as the mummy. In 1834, Thomas J. Pettigrew's A History of Egyptian Mummies was the first scholarly work wholly devoted to the subject, providing, for its time, a remarka…

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What Do I Read Next? 1995

by Barron, Steven A. Stilwell

1995

This annual selection guide covers new novels in the mystery fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western fiction and romance genres. It is intended to help readers to choose titles of interest published during 1995. By identifying si…

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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror

by Stephen Jones

1998

A collection of the year's horror stories by some well-known masters of dark fantasy such as Pat Cadigan, Stephen Laws, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Marshall-Smith, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and Thomas Ligotti.…

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The Vessel

by Adam Nevill

2022

An eerie folk horror novel from the author of Cunning Folk, The Reddening, The Ritual, No One Gets Out Alive and the four times winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. 'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so l…

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