The 50 Best Horror Books of 2024
Top 50 Free Horror Books - April 2024
When a bullied high school student turns to her mysterious neighbor for help, she ends up with a bigger and much more terrifying p...
El Principe Prospero y su alegre corte se refugian dentro de un castillo para así evitar la devastación que la epidemia de La Muer...
Book one in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series... Where Nightmares Come From  focuses on the art of s...
Don't Talk To Strangers... Faced with his parents' divorce, eleven-year-old Lucas runs away from his house in t...
Jen, Delcie and Tanner, three teens spending their summers in a small Wisconsin lake town, encounter a boy with a tie to an old ab...
What, as a father, can you do when your only son's blood runs with that of the wolf? What recourse is there for the son whose...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Franke...
Laura sits for a while and listens to Grandpa Kallembach’s stories of Nazi Germany. His tale recounts his struggle for freedom and...
“Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, c...
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Drac...
A lone surveyor wanders deep into the hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts, where residents of the "blasted heath" are ha...
Ten-year-old Ava wakes in the night to the screams of her grandmother. Fearing for her life, she rushes to the window to escape th...
This unauthorized Goosebumps parody provides a unique blend of nostalgia and dark comedy. While the series features children as th...
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a caution...
In Neil's mind it started with the man in the park. Or, more specifically, with the vicious bite the man had given Neil. He w...
Rumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House, wreaking havoc, have long been rife among staf...
Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school...
Thank you for joining us on these tales of zombie horror. As you begin to read these stories, wrap your mind around this… The worl...
Alma Harper has been trying to forget what happened in Widowsfield 16 years ago. She has a good life as a music now, and might rek...
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Drac...
LAST WOLF, the third and final book in the Bad Wolf series is now available. Detective Lara Mendes's hard work finally pays o...
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, a...
Matt always knew when his mother was about to arrive: the wind would swirl from every direction at once and dark clouds would mass...
A hunting party in the Canadian wilderness separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo (a mythical creatur...
Never snoop around your neighbor's house, you never know what horrors await... Mr. Spaulding looks like an ordinary ...
Horror Stories is a collection of tales that will chill, terrify, and disturb all those who dare read them. Slip into these pages ...
*Book 2 in The Hunger series.*  Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains and dissected by three rivers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylva...
An Apple Books Classic edition. Few characters have seized readers’ imaginations quite like Count Dracula of Transylvania, the her...
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environme...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle  is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson...
Unbeknownst to two teenagers—Ralph worried about a history exam he didn't study for and Sarah having studied all weekend—a fl...
Enjoy eight Christmas-themed horror flash fictions that’ll make you see Christmas differently this year. In this collection, you’l...
Following the death of his ten-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing c...
As a crippling disease eats her away, Jessie fights her fears, along with the horrors that wait outside the door. With every passi...
The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year and is about the narrator's deadly reven...
In an unnamed town somewhere on the American prairie, children are dying. Terrible creatures, some from this world and some from t...
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Several individuals connected through unfortunate ...
The authors of ASMSG have determined this Halloween to be a great time for Terror. Ghouls, ghosts, vamps, death, and psychos reign...
Do you dare to enter... Horrors Next Door is a collection of short Mystery, Psychological, Suspense, and Horror stories that will ...
Horrors of the Night is a collection of short Mysterious, Psychological, Suspense, and Horror stories that will make you shiver an...
These stories have been written by sevengraders (13 -14 yo) at Tråsättraskolan in Österåker, Sweden. They are only two sentences l...
An American diplomat's family moves into an ancient stately mansion. They're warned by the owner that it is haunted by a...
Day One:  A series of terrorist attacks spread a cloud of noxious gas over highly populated areas. Day Two:  Hig...
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays...
Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins...
Eric can't remember the recurring dream that keeps waking him in the middle of the night with an overwhelming urge to leave, ...
From the author of Psychosis, Matt Dymerski, comes a new reality-bending tale of horror and adventure. THE PORTAL IN THE FOREST Th...
Young couple Zayn and Emily have been together for a few months. She has not yet met his family, and so they plan to visit them fo...
Top 50 Paid Horror Books - April 2024
Love has never been enough within these walls Alexzander Every day feels the same. Beaten down, conditioned to hurt others, and un...
A young hospital security guard with a disturbingly unique taste in women. A maternity doctor with a horrifically unusual appetite...
“Readers who enjoyed The Strain Trilogy, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, will find plenty to satisfy them here.”— San Franc...
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghost...
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide ...
Paul Tremblay’s terrifying twist to the home invasion novel—inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictu...
“ Claw Heart Mountain is beautifully written.” —HorrorDNA “Anyone looking for gripping natural horror should check this out.” — Pu...
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of ...
“Stephen King never stops giving us his all” ( Chicago Tribune ) in this #1 national bestseller about the idyllic small town of Ha...
This fast-paced thriller reimagines the historical events of the doomed Titanic voyage—with an outbreak of zombie mayhem. Desperat...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE 'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME •&am...
A young woman travels alone to a remote island to uncover a past she never knew was hers in this thrilling modern ghost story When...
"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secret...
Now a major motion picture, Stephen King's brilliant and terrifying story of a marriage with truly deadly secrets. Darcy Ande...
Downsized from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Harrison Allen longs for a fresh start. Alone, with no prospects or plans, he...
#1  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great...
Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shape...
Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary: An Awakening of Terror , blends Midsommar with elements of American Psyc...
A relentless alien bounty hunter encloses a Texas town under a dome to isolate, hunt, and kill its prey in “the ultimate horror no...
"The book offers a different experience from the film since it can obviously go into much more detail," says Rob Zombie....
Seven “masterfully told” stories of suspense and nightmarish drama from the National Book Award–winning author of Them ( The Guard...
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The...
The prequel to Dracula , inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thri...
“The terror is relentless” ( Publishers Weekly ) in Stephen King’s #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation,...
CREEPERS, David Morrell's gripping joyride of a thriller, depicts every harrowing second in eight hours of relentless terror....
From the  New York Times  best-selling author of  The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slayi...
An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist A Goodreads Best Horror Choice ...
"A horror story for all midnights." — The Boston Globe Inspired by the shockingly true story of a chil...
“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”— The Washington Post “An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”— ...
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving...
"An intensely unsettling read." -David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED X VIOLENCE WAS HIS FIRST LANGUAGE. Aft...
“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted ...
New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.   “A dizzying high-wire act.”—...
Winner of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award for best vampire novel of the century: the genre-defining classic of horror s...
Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings , which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary&#...
A New York Times Notable Book “You’re in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can’t put down. Tananarive Due hit...
Welcome to Mercy House, a state-of-the-art retirement home that appears perfectly crisp, clean, and orderly . . . but nothing coul...
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensi...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ...
What the world dreads most, has happened.  Read, how author A. R. Shaw delivers a far too plausible sce...
Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers&a...
The mist is full of evil things―dark, twisted beings that think only of their own hunger―but Clare has clawed her way through. She...
A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee. "Malfi is a mod...
A “gripping and terrifying story…and one not to be missed” (Robert McCammon) from the acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep !...
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatu...
SOME STORIES CAN ONLY BE TOLD . . . LONG PAST MIDNIGHT   Five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Jonathan Maberry weaves a chi...
A Best Horror Book of the Year ( Esquire ) • An Indie Next Pick! "This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terri...
Something has always lived in Winthrop House... After his book becomes a best-seller, novelist Jack Ripley moves into a house on t...
Cabal is the story of Boone, a tortured soul haunted by the conviction that he has committed atrocious crimes. In a necropolis in ...
John Dies at the End 's "smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have t...
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