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

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

    • ASIN: 1597809837
    • ISBN: 1597809837
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

    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 readers crave. In this anniversary edition, Datlow brings back her favorite stories of the series’ last decade in a special edition encompassing highlights f... [Read More]

  • Best New Horror: Volume 25 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)

    • ASIN: B06XQ853RP
    • Manufacturer: Skyhorse

    Best New Horror combines dozens of the best and grisliest short stories of today. For twenty-five years this series has been published in the United Kingdom as The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and now comes to the US to delight and terrify thriller enthusiasts. This has been the world’s leading annual anthology dedicated solely to showcasing ... [Read More]

  • The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume 1

    • ASIN: 1587670801
    • ISBN: 1587670801
    • Brand: Brand: Cemetery Dance Publications
    • Manufacturer: Cemetery Dance Publications

    In celebration of the new millennium, Cemetery Dance Publications has commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan. John will be selecting one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year -- all 1... [Read More]

  • Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5

    • ASIN: 1988964067
    • ISBN: 1988964067
    • Manufacturer: Undertow Publications

    Showcasing the finest weird fiction published in 2017, volume 5 of the Year's Best Weird Fiction is the final, triumphant volume in the acclaimed series. Editors Robert Shearman and Michael Kelly bring their knowledge and skill to this fifth and final volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. Michael Kelly - ForewordRobert Shearman - IntroductionKur... [Read More]

  • Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (Now Write! Series)

    • ASIN: 039916555X
    • ISBN: 039916555X
    • Brand: Tarcher
    • Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

    Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers ... [Read More]

  • The Unknown

    • ASIN: 1082472972
    • ISBN: 1082472972
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    For fans of Divergent, The Hunger Games, and Stranger Things who want to discover something new ..."I have read hundreds of books and it is extremely rare for me to be surprised or give 5 stars. I almost always anticipate the plot twists. I thought I had this one all figured out from the very beginning ... [I] couldn't have been more wrong! ... An... [Read More]

  • Mind Plague: Vincent L. Scarsella

    • ASIN: 1989414109
    • ISBN: 1989414109
    • Manufacturer: Digital Science Fiction, an imprint of Digital Fiction Publishing Corp.

    A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO LOSE...Imagine a world in which nearly everyone has lost their ability to think. That’s exactly the world Franklin Strock wakes up into one morning. His wife and his neighbors .... and seemingly everyone else, appears afflicted by a total inability to remember who they are and worse, how to do even the simplest thing... [Read More]

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten

    • ASIN: 151071667X
    • ISBN: 151071667X
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

    A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fights to survive their descent; An American band finds more than they bargained for in Mexico while scouting remote locations for a photo shoot; A young student’s exploration into the origins of a mysterious song leads him on a winding, dangerous path through the US’s deep south; A group of kid... [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]

  • On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association

    • UPC: 035313110375
    • ASIN: 1582974209
    • ISBN: 1582974209
    • Brand: Writer's Digest
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

    The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all!In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories.Edited by the Ho... [Read More]

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight

    • ASIN: 1597808539
    • ISBN: 1597808539
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

    A town is held hostage by an unholy bargain made by some of the inhabitants; a party game on Halloween brings back memories better left forgotten; one misstep changes the balance of survival during the apocalypse; a group of seemingly typical travelers are stranded in an airport; a widower’s holiday in a seaside town becomes a nightmare . . .The ... [Read More]

  • Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 1

    • ASIN: 1597801615
    • ISBN: 1597801615
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

    An Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo; a man is asked to track down a childhood friend... who died years earlier; doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature; an alcoholic strikes a dangerous bargain with a gregarious stranger; urban explorers delve into a ruined book depository,... [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 4

    • ASIN: 1936964120
    • ISBN: 1936964120
    • 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... [Read More]

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven

    • ASIN: 1597809721
    • ISBN: 1597809721
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

    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 readers crave. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pa... [Read More]

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five

    • ASIN: 1597804746
    • ISBN: 1597804746
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

    Darkness, both literal and psychological, holds its own unique fascination. Despite our fears, or perhaps because of them, readers have always been drawn to tales of death, terror, madness, and the supernatural, and no more so than today when a wildly imaginative new generation of dark dreamers is carrying on in the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft a... [Read More]

  • The Man of Legends

    • ASIN: B01M10EFKJ
    • Brand: 47North
    • Manufacturer: 47North

    “Johnson takes a big gamble by telling such a complex tale invoking every genre imaginable while juggling distinct and deep characterizations. The bet pays off, resulting in a story that will be popular with book clubs and fun to discuss.” —Associated PressNew York City, New Year’s weekend, 2001. Jillian Guthrie, a troubled young journalist... [Read More]

  • Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1

    • ASIN: 1936964589
    • ISBN: 1936964589
    • Manufacturer: Comet Press

    "Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, the 19 stories in this new best-of annual anthology feature episodes of graphic gore and violence—including torture, dismemberment, self-mutilation, and home abortion—that are designed to push buttons as well as boundaries...strictly for hardcore horror fans."—Publishers Weekly”...glutted with... [Read More]

  • The Evil in the Tower

    • ASIN: 1988863791
    • ISBN: 1988863791
    • Manufacturer: Digital Horror Fiction, an imprint of Digital Fiction Publishing Corp.

    Obsession, possession, and a terrifying past stalk the present, and an unpunished evil triggers ghostly revenge, in this supernatural thriller.Deedsy's rundown mansion is haunted by a ghastly spirit who reappears each time tragedy strikes her family. Deedsy believes it somehow involves the century-old feud between her family and the Ryans.When her ... [Read More]

  • Asylum 3-Book Box Set: Asylum, Sanctum, Catacomb

    • ASIN: 0062574337
    • ISBN: 0062574337
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    Sometimes the past is better off buried…Enter the twisted world of Madeleine Roux’s New York Times bestselling Asylum series with this bone-chilling box set containing the first three novels. In Asylum, sixteen-year-old Dan discovers that his summer-program dorm used to be a psychiatric hospital—and that it's filled with secrets linking Dan a... [Read More]

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