The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
By: Ellen Datlow
3.94
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry i…
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1. Occultation and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.08
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more
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2. Best New Horror 22 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #22)
By: John Langan , Caitlín R. Kiernan , Kirstyn McDermott , Albert E. Cowdrey , Steve Rasnic Tem , Stephen Jones , Joel Lane , Ramsey Campbell , Christopher Fowler , Mark Samuels , Mark Morris , Karina Sumner-Smith , Scott Edelman , Joe R. Lansdale , Simon Kurt Unsworth , Thana Niveau , Brian Hodge , Angela Slatter , Robert Shearman , Norman Partridge , Michael Marshall Smith , Mark Valentine , Richard L. Tierney
3.75
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series continues to be the world's leading annual anthology ded… read more
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3. The Between
By: Tananarive Due
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more
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- fiction
- horror
4. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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5. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
6. Kissing Carrion
By: Gemma Files
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Paperback
In this first published collection of short stories from one of Canada's most talented rising stars… read more
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7. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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- horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
8. Last Days
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.75
Format: 531 pages, Paperback
When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more
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- horror
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
9. December Park
By: Ronald Malfi
3.57
Format: 307 pages,
In the quiet suburb of Harting Farms, the weekly crime blotter usually consists of graffiti or the … read more
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10. Ancient Images
By: Ramsey Campbell
4.60
Format: 200 pages,
A colleague's violent death and its apparent cause - a stolen copy of an old, never-released Karlof… read more
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11. Ghost Summer
By: Tananarive Due
4.20
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, Amer… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
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"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"In a cold place, there's no such thing as today, just tomorrow. Will it snow tomorrow? Will it be sunny tomorrow?"-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"...you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
12. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
By: Nathan Ballingrud
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
- horror
13. Leech
By: Hiron Ennes
3.60
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more
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"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."-Hiron Ennes, Leech
14. This Wretched Valley
By: Jenny Kiefer
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more
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- horror
15. A Haunting on the Hill
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.35
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more
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- fiction
- horror
16. In Bloom
By: Paul Tremblay
3.08
Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition
There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more
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- fiction
- horror
17. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives
By: Adam Cesare
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Set a year after the first book, it looks at how the surviving characters are dealing with fame and… read more
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- fiction
- horror
18. Goddess of Filth
By: V. Castro
3.63
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more
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- horror
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
19. Hummingbird Salamander
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.25
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered sp… read more
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"But the trick of the world was to contain all things."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"The Christmas decorations at the entrance were garish, incomprehensible, partisan. What kind of a country did we live in?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
20. The Luminous Dead
By: Caitlin Starling
3.66
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping… read more
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- horror
21. Ghost Station
By: S.A. Barnes
3.57
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more
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22. The Ghost Tree
By: Christina Henry
3.83
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
When people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith's Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when… read more
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- horror
"She was not a superstitious woman. She was a good Catholic and she knew very well that death did not cling to objects and that if her dreams were troubled she could always pray to the Virgin Mary."-Christina Henry, The Ghost Tree
23. Mary
By: Nat Cassidy
3.80
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more
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24. Floating Hotel
By: Grace Curtis
3.70
Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition
This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery … read more
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25. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
By: Sadie Hartmann
4.43
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more
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- horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
26. Incidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more
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- horror
27. Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.05
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more
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- horror
"We’re in How-It-Was class."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"Buy One Get One stops for no one."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
28. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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- horror
29. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
By: Ellen Datlow
3.94
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry i… read more
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30. The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan
By: Caitlín R. Kiernan
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of dark fantasy and horror’s most acclaimed and influential short fiction… read more
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- anthologies
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31. Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology
By: Sadie Hartmann
4.22
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
Bram Stoker Awards® nominee for Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2022) 35 BRAND NEW TALES OF … read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
- horror
