Getting Started with Horror Fiction: 5 Scary Books You Have to Read

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  • Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 3

    • ASIN: B07H5SYSVV
    • Manufacturer: Comet Press

    It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. Authors, editors, and publishers presented readers with some startling works of horrific imagination, stories graphic in the extreme yet with subtleties suggesting larger meanings, tales that explore humanity by plumbing depths of soulless inhumanity and, in some cases, outright depravity.... [Read More]

  • Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

    • ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Thre... [Read More]

  • Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2

    • ASIN: B072JG8L5T
    • Manufacturer: Comet Press

    Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 2. Not your mama's best-of horror annual. This year brings 22 more in-your-face stories that break boundaries and trash taboos, transgressive tales you can't "unread" (as Chuck Palahniuk says). Some of the stories you'll find here are loaded with very graphic descriptions of violence, sex, and depravities, w... [Read More]

  • The Institute: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07N943MFX
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It—publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters.In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him i... [Read More]

  • The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction

    • ASIN: B07JDB8WJB
    • Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio

    ***One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018"***  A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to re... [Read More]

  • The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

    • ASIN: B076FNQWTF
    • Manufacturer: Greyson Media

    Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered—one girl lived.No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right—but did she see the killer?Best Mystery-Thriller eBook of the Year — Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018Winner Best T... [Read More]

  • Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 1

    • ASIN: B01IIHN2H4
    • Manufacturer: Comet Press

    Excerpt from the introduction:  Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the call out to horror writers and editors of extreme stories, the hardcore stuff that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos, the transgressive tales you can't "unread" (as Chuck Palahniuk says). We staked out our territory and nailed this to the wall to guide us:  Ye... [Read More]

  • The Price of Time

    • ASIN: B07NXXYG1G

    Would your character change ...if you had all the money in the world?And all the time?Would you become a better person?Or worse?Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller._______________________________________There’s a secret in Silicon Valley. A discovery. An invention. One so startling and su... [Read More]

  • The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Nine

    • ASIN: B073PF1FWZ
    • Manufacturer: Tantor Audio

    For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the ninth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. With each passing year, sci... [Read More]

  • Watchers

    • ASIN: B001974DG0
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

  • Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 4

    • ASIN: B07YNZ7KD5
    • Manufacturer: Red Room Press

    Red Room Press is extremely proud to present its fourth annual anthology featuring this year's hardcore corps of authors with the best extreme horror fiction of 2018 that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos. First up is Vigil by Chad Lutzke. Chad takes us into a neighborhood where a steady stream of decayed corpses are exhumed from a neighbor's ce... [Read More]

  • Then She Was Gone: A Novel

    • ASIN: B074MDD3H6
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are ... [Read More]

  • Gilchrist: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07B4MT7TB
    • Manufacturer: Christian Galacar

    "If you like Stephen King or Dean Koontz you will like this story." (Sunny DuPree) Bag of Bones meets Stranger Things.... Gilchrist is as beautiful as it is terrifying - a novel of mounting suspense, with an unsettlingly human heart at its core...black as it may be. Two years after losing their infant son to a tragic accident, Peter Martell, a n... [Read More]

  • The Life We Bury

    • ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
    • Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

    A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and ... [Read More]

  • The Hospital: The FREE Short Story: The First Mountain Man Story

    • ASIN: B00IRI1SNU
    • Manufacturer: Podium Publishing

    "Mountain Man" Augustus Berry is a survivor in undead suburbia. He scavenges what he can from what's left over. He is very careful in what he does and where he goes, taking no chances, no unnecessary risks, and weighing every choice...until he decides to visit the hospital at the edge of town, and experiences terror the likes he's never encountered... [Read More]

  • Best Seller

    • ASIN: B07MM6GG3F
    • Manufacturer: Digital Contact

    A girl with unique power over luck. A desperate man driven by envy. A mind-bending story of betrayal and fate! Ten-year-old Nem has just witnessed her mother's brutal murder and her life appears destined for tragedy. Until, that is, she finds her mother's old green journal which holds an incredible secret.  This innocent looking book seems to con... [Read More]

  • Ninth House

    • ASIN: B07LF64DZ2
    • Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

  • Where the Crawdads Sing

    • ASIN: B07FSXPMHY
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Audio

    Number-one New York Times best seller A Reese's Book Club + Hello Sunshine on Audible Pick "I can't even express in words how much I love this book...the way it's performed on Audible just took me right back to my long summers in Tennessee. This story has a special place in my heart - I didn't want it to end." (Reese Witherspoon)  "Painfully beau... [Read More]

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

  • The Demonic: Supernatural Horror Series, Book 1

    • ASIN: B079M227NH
    • Manufacturer: Lee Mountford

    Danni Morgan thought she knew fear, but she is about to find out what it is to be truly afraid. Years ago, a young girl ran away from her childhood home and vowed never to go back. It was a place of fear, pain, and misery at the hands of an abusive father. But now, her father is dead, and she is forced to break that vow and return home - to lay h... [Read More]

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