Best Horror Books to Read
Top 10 Horror books
The main purpose of horror genre is to scare, shock, disgust, or startle the readers. The eerie and frightening atmosphere create horror and terror. The protagonist deals with supernatural or demonic beings. Gothic, occult, paranormal, survival, dark fantasy, and sci-fi horror are sub-genres of horror.
Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In is a 2004 horror vampire novel by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist. It has been translated into several languages.The story centers on the relationship between a 12-year-old boy, Oskar, and a centuries-old vampire child, Eli. It takes place in Blackeberg, a working-class suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s.
In 1981 Blackeberg, Stockholm, Oskar is a 12-year-old boy who lives with his mother, who is loving and with whom he initially seems to have a close connection. His father, whom Oskar visits occasionally, is an alcoholic living in the countryside. Because the boy is the victim of merciless bullying, Oskar has gained morbid interests, which include crime and forensics, and he keeps a scrapbook filled with newspaper articles about murders.
Let the Right One In
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
NOS4A2
by Joe Hill
NOS4A2
NOS4A2 is the third novel by American author Joe Hill, son of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. The book was published on April 30, 2013 through William Morrow and Company and focuses on a woman trying to save her son from a vicious, supernatural killer who has set his sights on him.
The book opens in a hospital in 2008. Charles Manx, a convicted child abductor, briefly wakes from a coma to threaten a nurse. Her coworkers don’t believe her claim, because he exhibits only limited brain function.
The Fisherman
The Fisherman is a horror novel by American author John Langan. The book was published in 2016.
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It’s a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.
The Fisherman
by John Langan
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
The Passage
The Passage is a horror, thriller, suspense novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010.
The novel begins in the near future and details an apocalyptic and, later, podt-apocalyptic world that is overrun by zombie/vampire like beings who are infected by a highly contagious virus. What begins as a project to develop a new immunity-boosting drug based on a virus carried by an unnamed species of bat in South America eventually becomes the virus that transforms the world. The novel begins in 2016 and spans more than ninety years, as colonies of humans attempt to live in a world filled with superhuman creatures who are continually on the hunt for fresh blood.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1986.
Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, is appointed director of the University of Maine’s campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie’s cat, Church. From the moment they arrive, the family runs into trouble: Ellie hurts her knee, and Gage is stung by a bee. Their new neighbor, an elderly man named Jud Crandall, comes to help. He warns Louis and Rachel about the highway that runs past their house, which is frequented by speeding trucks…
Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall
by Margaret Mitchell
The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall
The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall is a horror novel by Katie Alender and was published in 2015.
Delia’s new house isn’t just a house. Long ago, it was the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females — an insane asylum nicknamed “Hysteria Hall.” However, many of the inmates were not insane, just defiant and strong willed. Kind of like Delia herself. But the house still wants to keep “troubled” girls locked away. So, in the most horrifying way, Delia becomes trapped. And that’s when she learns that the house is also haunted. Ghost girls wander the hallways in their old-fashioned nightgowns. A handsome ghost boy named Theo roams the grounds. Delia learns that all the spirits are unsettled and full of dark secrets. The house, too, harbors shocking truths within its walls — truths that only Delia can uncover, and that may set her free.
The Imago Sequence
The Imago Sequence is a 2007 horror dark fantasy novel by Larid Barron.
Nine terrifying tales of cosmic horror are collected in this book, including the World Fantasy Award-nominated novella “The Imago Sequence,” the International Horror Guild Award-nominated “Proboscis,” and the never-before-published “Procession of the Black Sloth.” Together, these stories, each a masterstroke of craft and imaginative irony, form a shocking cycle of distorted evolution, encroaching chaos, and ravenous insectoid hive-minds hidden just beneath the seemingly benign surface of the Earth.
The Imago Sequence
by Larid Barron
The Ballad of Black Tom
by Victor LaValle
The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom is a 2016 horror dark fantasy novel by Victor LaValle, revisiting H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Horror at Red Hook” from the viewpoint of a black man.
In 1924 Harlem, Tommy Tester is a small-time hustler whose regular guise as a street musician brings him in contact with reclusive millionaire Robert Suydam, who wants him to participate in an evil scheme involving the Great Old Ones.
The Monstrumologist
The Monstrumologist is a young adult horror novel written by American author Rick Yancey. It was published in 2009. It is the first book in The Monstrumologist series, followed by The Curse of the Wendigo.
The Monstrumologist is a young adult horror novel written by American author Rick Yancey. It was published in 2009. It is the first book in The Monstrumologist series, followed by The Curse of the Wendigo.
So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown accustomed to his late-night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Will’s world is about to change forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropomorphous–a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest–and it signals a growing number of Anthropologist. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to overtake and consume our world before it is too late.
The Monstrumologist
by Rick Yancey
Dark Matter
by Michelle Paver
Dark Matter
Dark Matter is a speculative fiction novel from Michelle Paver. Part horror, part ghost story, and it was published in the UK on October 21, 2010.
January 1937. 28-year-old Jack is poor, lonely, and desperate to change his life. So when he’s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. After they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave.