64 Of Your Favorite Horror Novels
This Riot Recommendation for favorite horror novels is sponsored by John Darnielle’s Universal Harvester, a New York Times bestseller. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
It’s the late 1990s and Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. A local schoolteacher comes in to return Targets and says: “There’s something on it.” Two days later, a different customer returns a different tape and says: “There’s another movie on this tape.”
Jeremy discovers that in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video.
“This chilling literary thriller follows a video store clerk as he deciphers a macabre mystery through clues scattered among the tapes his customers rent. A page-turning homage to In Cold Blood and The Ring.” — O: The Oprah Magazine
There’s nothing like a good fright to get the blood flowing, and you can always count on books for a dose of thrill and chill. From the quietly creepy to the boldly terrifying, we asked you to share your favorite horror novels, and you responded. Here are 64 of your favorites! The Ritual by Adam Nevill The House of Small Shadows by Adam Nevill Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin Salem’s Lot by Stephen King The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Willows by Algernon Blackwood Blindsight by Peter Watts Annihiliation by Jeff VanderMeer A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay The Fisherman by John Langan NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff The Troop by Nick Cutter The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones Dark Matter by Michelle Paver Losing Christina by Caroline B Cooney Ghost Story by Peter Straub The Elementals by Michael McDowell Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Bird Box by Josh Malerman The Croning By Laird Barron Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Cipher by Kathe Koja The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer The Pine Deep Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry The Stuff of Nightmares by Marlorie Blackman Doctor Sleep by Stephen King It by Stephen King Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon Gerald’s Game by Stephen King Song of Kali by Dan Simmons The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Monstrumology by Rick Yancy Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker The Taking by Dean Koontz The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn Apparition by Michaelent Collings At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft Bitten by Kelley Armstrong The Watchers by Dean Koontz Let The Right One In by John A. Lindqvist The Terror by Dan Simmons Breed by Chase Novak The Face by Dean Koontz Long Lankin by Lindsay Barraclough Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Misery by Stephen King Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Mr. B Gone by Clive Barker Grimm Memorials by R. Patrick Gates Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert Late Great Creature by Brock Brower The Passage by Justin Cronin The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker Dead Souls by J. Lincoln Fenn We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
It’s the late 1990s and Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. A local schoolteacher comes in to return Targets and says: “There’s something on it.” Two days later, a different customer returns a different tape and says: “There’s another movie on this tape.”
Jeremy discovers that in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video.
“This chilling literary thriller follows a video store clerk as he deciphers a macabre mystery through clues scattered among the tapes his customers rent. A page-turning homage to In Cold Blood and The Ring.” — O: The Oprah Magazine
There’s nothing like a good fright to get the blood flowing, and you can always count on books for a dose of thrill and chill. From the quietly creepy to the boldly terrifying, we asked you to share your favorite horror novels, and you responded. Here are 64 of your favorites! The Ritual by Adam Nevill The House of Small Shadows by Adam Nevill Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin Salem’s Lot by Stephen King The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Willows by Algernon Blackwood Blindsight by Peter Watts Annihiliation by Jeff VanderMeer A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay The Fisherman by John Langan NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff The Troop by Nick Cutter The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones Dark Matter by Michelle Paver Losing Christina by Caroline B Cooney Ghost Story by Peter Straub The Elementals by Michael McDowell Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Bird Box by Josh Malerman The Croning By Laird Barron Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Cipher by Kathe Koja The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer The Pine Deep Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry The Stuff of Nightmares by Marlorie Blackman Doctor Sleep by Stephen King It by Stephen King Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon Gerald’s Game by Stephen King Song of Kali by Dan Simmons The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Monstrumology by Rick Yancy Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker The Taking by Dean Koontz The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn Apparition by Michaelent Collings At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft Bitten by Kelley Armstrong The Watchers by Dean Koontz Let The Right One In by John A. Lindqvist The Terror by Dan Simmons Breed by Chase Novak The Face by Dean Koontz Long Lankin by Lindsay Barraclough Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Misery by Stephen King Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Mr. B Gone by Clive Barker Grimm Memorials by R. Patrick Gates Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert Late Great Creature by Brock Brower The Passage by Justin Cronin The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker Dead Souls by J. Lincoln Fenn We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
