Horror Reads for Adults

Updated August 5, 2024
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Horror Reads for Adults

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The shining
King, Stephen, 1947- author.
Paper Book
Mexican Gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'You don't read this book so much as surrender to it. A dark and heady swoon' THE GUARDIAN 'As rich is suspense as it is in lush '50s atmosphere' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to...
Horror movie a novel
Tremblay, Paul
"Slasher movies are seen by some as kitschy fun, but this is a seriously disturbing novel, delving into the sacrifices art demands, psychological trauma and how monsters are made. Sometimes painful reading, it's also incredibly gripping, smart and scary." The Guardian ...
Out there screaming an anthology of new Black horror
Peele, Jordan, 1979- editor.
Paper Book
Brace yourself for a spine-chilling journey with this New York Times Bestseller. Jordan Peele, the visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, Nope and Him, curates this anthology of new stories of Black horror. Exploring not only the terrors...
The trees grew because I bled there collected stories
LaRocca, Eric
Paper Book
Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant...
Just like mother
Heltzel, Anne
Audiobook
Misery a novel
King, Stephen, 1947- author.
Paper Book
One of the true classics of psychological suspense, about a writer and his No. 1 fan. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery made him rich;...
Horrorstör
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, Horrorst r comes packaged in the form of a glossy mail order catalog, complete with product illustrations, a home delivery order form, and a map of Orsk's labyrinthine showroom. Something strange is happening...
Near the bone
Henry, Christina, 1974- author.
Paper Book
Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's something in the woods that wasn't there...
The eyes are the best part
Kim, Monika
Paper Book
'I was enticed from the first line' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer This feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin 'An outstanding debut' NEW YORK TIMES ...
Devolution a firsthand account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Brooks, Max
Paper Book
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WORLD WAR Z 'TRUE TERROR' Guardian 'NAIL CHOMPING SUSPENSE' Total Film ______________________________________As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's...
The last house on needless street
Ward, Catriona
Paper Book
Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist. It's so good you'll read it twice...
Chasing the boogeyman a novel
Chizmar, Richard, 1965- author.
Paper Book
The acclaimed NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling novel of small-town evil that 'is genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting' (Stephen King) and 'unforgettable' (Harlan Coben). Summer 1988: the mutilated bodies of several missing girls are discovered in a...
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Paper Book
Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear....
The reformatory a novel
Due, Tananarive, 1966- author.
Paper Book
Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school...
It a novel
King, Stephen, 1947- author.
Paper Book
Now with a stunning new cover look, King's classic No. 1 bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as the inspiration for HBO Max's upcoming Welcome to Derry. We all float down here.<...
Let the right one in
Ajvide Lindqvist, John, 1968-
Paper Book
**The international bestseller and the book behind the film and play Let Me In** Let the Right One In Season 1 premieres Saturday, 8th October 2022 on Paramount+ UK. 'The new Stephen King' The Times Oskar and Eli. In very...
The Sun Down Motel
St. James, Simone
Paper Book
Something hasn't been right at the Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why . . . 1982 Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel, in Fell. But...
Bird box
Malerman, Josh
Paper Book
Josh Malerman's debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading. Malorie raises the children the only way she can: indoors. The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are...
World War Z an oral history of the zombie war
Brooks, Max.
Ebook
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror,...
Odd Thomas
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-
Paper Book
The 400 million copy worldwide bestseller Dean Koontz is at his very best in this critically-acclaimed page-turner - soon to be a major motion picture. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller's most-loved creation. Odd by name, a hero by nature. He's Odd. Odd Thomas, to be...
A head full of ghosts
Tremblay, Paul
Paper Book
"A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I'm pretty hard to scare." - Stephen King A chilling and gripping twist of psychological suspense and supernatural horror about a family ripped apart by ghostly possession and madness, all under the baleful eye of a...
The only good Indians a novel
Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972- author.
Paper Book
Ricky, Gabe, Lewis and Cassidy are men bound to their heritage, bound by society, and trapped in the endless expanses of the landscape. Now, ten years after a fateful elk hunt, which remains a closely guarded secret between them, these men - and their children - must face a ferocious spirit that is...
The hollow places a novel
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
PRAY THAT THEY ARE HUNGRY... Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area--only to...
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