Horror

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Updated February 4, 2026
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones
Paper Book
Selected as One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2025 A Barack Obama Summer Read A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year...
The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. "In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's sure hands, every uncovered secret is...
Never Flinch
Stephen King
Paper Book
Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, AV Club, Variety, The Boston Globe, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Vulture, Men's Health, Book Riot, New York Post, Goodreads, AARP, Paste,...
The Starving Saints
Caitlin Starling
Paper Book
From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing, intensely atmospheric fever dream of medieval horror. Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of...
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller * #1 USA Today bestseller * #1 National Indie bestseller * #1 IndieNext List, June 2025 * 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fantasy A genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York...
The Staircase in the Woods
Chuck Wendig
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents. "Chuck Wendig weaves his magic once more, turning a lonely...
Lucky Day
Chuck Tingle
Paper Book
"An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights."--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death Lucky Day is the instant USA Today and Indie bestseller from Chuck Tingle, where one woman...
When the Wolf Comes Home
Nat Cassidy
Paper Book
Nat Cassidy, author of the acclaimed horror Mary, returns with When the Wolf Comes Home, an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller where the darkest fears can become reality. A USA Today bestseller! ABA Indie Bookseller bestseller! ...
Play Nice
Rachel Harrison
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the author of Black Sheep and So Thirsty. Clio Louise Barnes...
Victorian Psycho
Virginia Feito
Paper Book
SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM STARRING MAIKA MONROE, THOMASIN MCKENZIE AND JASON ISSACS A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New Yorker, TIME, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public Library: "[A] savage thriller......
Overgrowth
Mira Grant
Paper Book
Day of the Triffids meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this full-on body horror / alien invasion apocalypse. This is just a story. It can't hurt you anymore. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone...
There Is No Antimemetics Division {Revised}
qntm
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Humanity is under assault by malevolent "antimemes"--ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself--in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel. "Utterly...
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Andrew Joseph White
Paper Book
A Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Novel of 2025 Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion...
Black Flame
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Paper Book
An instant USA Today bestseller! One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin. A...
Cold Eternity
S.A. Barnes
Paper Book
"You'll want to read this one with the lights on."--Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author Cold Eternity is the instant USA Today bestselling space horror from S.A. Barnes, perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads...
The Possession of Alba Díaz
Isabel Cañas
Paper Book
In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiance, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent...
Hungerstone
Kat Dunn
Paper Book
The seductive reimagining of a Gothic classic--a repressed wife encounters a mysterious woman who awakens her desire in the "lesbian vampire novel we need." (Them) NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NPR Best Book of the Year * Goodreads Choice Award Finalist * Book Riot Best Book of the...
Moonflow
Bitter Karella
Paper Book
"A bizarre and fiercely original splatterpunk phantasmagoria of queerness. Deranged and gleefully weird as f*ck, this is an impressive debut from a singular literary talent." --Eric LaRocca Annihilation meets Manhunt in ...
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
Kelley Armstrong
Killer on the Road & The Babysitter Lives
Stephen Graham Jones
Paper Book
Two novels in one book, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake...
Spread Me
Sarah Gailey
Paper Book
An instant USA Today bestseller! Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by Vulture! Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team...
Polybius
Collin Armstrong
Paper Book
"If you're a fan of Stephen King and Stranger Things, then this is the book for you." --Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author Stranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling horror novel based on the terrifying urban legend...
The Night Birds
Christopher Golden
Paper Book
The next gripping, atmospheric horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden, set in a deteriorated, half-sunken freighter ship off the coast of Galveston, TX. Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak years...
Coffin Moon
Keith Rosson
"This is mind-blowingly good. A horror novel that will keep you awake long after you turn the last page."--Stephen King From the author of Fever House and The Devil by Name: a Vietnam veteran and his adopted niece hunt--and are hunted by--the vampire that slaughtered...
One of Us
Dan Chaon
Paper Book
"A captivating new novel... As One of Us gleefully samples multiple registers -- comic, tragic, satiric, elegiac, poetic -- its mesh of archaic and contemporary styles becomes something quite arresting, a joy to read." --Hamilton Cain, The New York Times A...
We Are Always Tender with Our Dead
Eric LaRocca
Paper Book
Michael McDowell's Blackwater meets Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show in the disturbing first installment of a new trilogy of intense, visceral, beautifully written queer horror set in a small New England town. A chilling supernatural tale of transgressive literary horror from...
How to Survive a Horror Story
Mallory Arnold
Paper Book
Seven authors enter the manor Can they survive the story within? When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a piece of his massive fortune. Each have their own unique...
Rose of Jericho
Alex Grecian
Paper Book
The USA Today bestselling follow-up to Red Rabbit, Rose of Jericho is a supernatural horror where ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch's problems in nineteenth-century New England. Something wicked is going on in the town of Ascension. A mother...
Exiles
Mason Coile
A New York Times Book Review Favorite Book of 2025 A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William--this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half...
Acquired Taste
Clay McLeod Chapman
Paper Book
A startling, witty and downright terrifying collection of 25 short stories from the "21st century's Richard Matheson" (Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman.) Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay, Rachel Harrison and Eric LaRocca. They're feeding on you too. A...
The Unseen
Ania Ahlborn
Paper Book
A terrifying new novel from bestselling #HorrorBookTok sensation Ania Ahlborn--the acclaimed author of the modern classic Brother. Hailed as a writer of "some of the most promising horror I've encountered in years" (Seanan McGuire, author of the Ghost Roads series), Ania...
The Night That Finds Us All
John Hornor Jacobs
A troubled sailor. A hundred-year-old sailboat. An ancient curse. Welcome to award-winning author John Hornor Jacobs' nautical nightmare. It begins and ends as always, with the sea. Sam Vines is struggling. Her boat is up on the hard and she doesn't have...
Crafting for Sinners: A Novel
Jenny Kiefer
"You will compulsively turn these pages well into the dead of night."-Paul Tremblay, New York Times best-selling author of Horror Movie and The Cabin at the End of the World A queer woman must fight her way out of a craft store run by a megachurch in this...
The Cut
C J Dotson
Paper Book
In this chilling supernatural horror novel set in a mysterious hotel, a woman fleeing her abusive ex finds herself running from more than just her past. A historic hotel long past its prime and huddled along The Cut, a questionable Lake Erie beach, isn't Sadie Miles' ideal...
The Glowing Hours
Leila Siddiqui
Whistle
Linwood Barclay
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Terrific."-- Stephen King on Whistle New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay enters new territory with a supernatural chiller in which a woman and her young son move to a small town looking for a fresh start, only to...
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
Philip Fracassi
Paper Book
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! A Best Horror Book of 2025! (BookBub, Vulture, Men's Health) Brimming with dark humor, violence, and mystery, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a blood-soaked slasher sure to keep readers...
The Butcher's Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett
David Demchuk
Paper Book
The story of the vengeful barber Sweeney Todd has gripped fans across literary, stage, and screen renditions--but little has been told of Mrs. Lovett, Todd's partner in crime. Until now. Enclosed herewith: a bloodcurdling correspondence of horror and intrigue, based on the original...
The Unveiling: A Novel
Quan Barry
"A novel that's equal parts 'White Lotus' and 'Get Out'"--New York Times From the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East, a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment,...
Breathe In, Bleed Out
Brian McAuley
"Brian McAuley keeps you guessing the whole gory, satisfying way through this one. Come to this retreat for the blood. Stay for the healing." -Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of I Was a Teenage Slasher  It's a Midsommar...
The October Film Haunt
Michael Wehunt
Paper Book
One of the Best Horror Novels of the Year by Vulture * Geek Rage/ Strange Library * Cinema Chords Macabre Daily's #1 Horror Novel of 2025 Horror Movie meets the scope and emotion of Stephen King in this heart-pounding, magnetic tour de force novel,...
The Haunting of Room 904
Erika T. Wurth
Paper Book
"You'll want to follow Erika and her Olivia into any dark, creaky room." --Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie From the author of White Horse ("Twisty and electric." --The New York Times Book Review) comes a terrifying and...
Nowhere: A Novel
Allison Gunn
Paper Book
Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider in this spine-tingling and twisty debut about a series of disappearances in a small, fundamentalist town and what one broken family must do to remain together as dark forces close in. After losing her young son in an accident,...
Her Wicked Roots
Tanya Pell
Paper Book
In this queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne classic gothic story, Rappaccini's Daughter, a young woman is lured to a lush estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets. Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled...
The Midnight Knock: A Novel
John Fram
Paper Book
A locked-room mystery meets white-knuckle horror in this mind-bending thriller, where strangers must survive a deadly night in a remote Texas motel. In the frigid west Texas desert, weary travelers converge at a lonely roadside motel nestled at the foot of a massive mountain....
Blood Slaves
Markus Redmond
What if nobody ever freed the slaves... because they freed themselves - 150 years before the Civil War? In the Province of Carolina, 1710, freedom seems unattainable for Willie, for his beloved Gertie, and for their unborn child. They live, suffer, and toil under their brutal master, James 'Big Jim'...
Immaculate Conception
Ling Ling Huang
Paper Book
"A superb work of fiction."--New York Times Book Review What if you could enter the mind of the person you love the most? Enka meets Mathilde in art school and is instantly drawn to her. Mathilde makes art that feels truly original, and Enka--trying hard to...
The Burial Tide
Neil Sharpson
A real page turner. Every time I thought I had it figured out, the plot twisted into a different shape. Thoroughly enjoyable, delightfully grotesque, and an absolutely satisfying read.' -T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of What Feasts at Night. Drawing on the creatures and horrors of...
Fiend
Alma Katsu
Paper Book
Historical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb. "If you liked Succession but think it would have been a lot more fun with a 1,000 year...

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