April's Horror Picks

I like my horror books with a dash or sci-fi or literary fiction. More Stephen King than slasher. My ideal horror mashup would be as if Cuthulu and Wednesday Adams wrote a book together.

Updated June 8, 2023
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Leave the world behind a novel
Alam, Rumaan
Paper Book
SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, KEVIN BACON, ETHAN HAWKE AND MAHERSHALA ALI*A THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLER**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2021*'Easily the best thing I have read all year'...
Something wicked this way comes
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
Paper Book
Black hole
Burns, Charles, 1955-
Paper Book
And you thought your adolescence was scary. Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle...
When no one is watching a thriller
Cole, Alyssa
Paper Book
An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn't let go until the final page. This is a terrific read." - Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author *A Marie Claire Book Club Pick*...
The lathe of heaven
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
Ebook
This science fiction classic by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author is "a rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion" (The New York Times). In a near-future world beset by war, climate change, and overpopulation,...
Slenderman : online obsession, mental illness, and the violent crime of two midwestern girls
Hale, Kathleen
Paper Book
'A compelling yet harrowing read' Daily Mail 'One of the best true crime books of the year' CrimeReads The 2014 Slenderman stabbings in Wisconsin, USA, shocked the local community and the world. The violence of Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weiser, the two twelve...
Strangers on a train
Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995
Paper Book
The psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. 'Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against...
We have always lived in the castle
Jackson, Shirley
Paper Book
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects...
What moves the dead
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
The Fall of the House of Usher meets Mexican Gothic in this new horror novella by awarding-winning author, T. Kingfisher. An instant USA Today & Indie bestseller From...
The road
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Audiobook
The Road has been hailed by critics as a masterpiece. The novel paints a bleak vision of a post-apocalyptic America; a land where no hope remains. A man and his son walk alone towards the coast, and this is the moving story of their journey. The Road is an unflinching exploration of human behaviour...
Lovecraft country a novel
Ruff, Matt
Paper Book
SOON TO BE A NEW HBO SERIES FROM J.J. ABRAHMS, MISHA GREEN AND JORDAN PEELE (DIRECTOR OF GET OUT)Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George-publisher of The Safe...

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