Horror

Tribes by Jerrick Payton asks you to care about its characters before it asks you to fear for them, and that ordering of priorities is exactly what makes its horror land. It is a…

As Thomas J. Gebhardt III's third novel—following Washington and Everyday Rainbows—Smiling Faceless Woman represents a confident leap into supernatural thriller territory while maintaining the character-driven focus evident in his previous work.

"The Quest For Freedom" announces Matthew Devitt as an author willing to commit fully to his premise. This is uncompromising fantasy that trades magical systems for military strategy, prophecies for determination, and chosen destiny…

"The Black Fire Concerto" ultimately affirms the power of human connection and resilience. In a landscape of broken magic and monstrous transformation, it suggests that art, friendship, and courage remain forces capable of lighting…

A girl bored by her busy parents finds a second home behind a bricked-up door, and Gaiman builds one of the most frightening mothers in children's fiction out of attention and good cooking. It…

An orphaned toddler is adopted by the ghosts of a hilltop cemetery and grows up learning the skills of the dead while his family's killer keeps hunting. Gaiman's linked-story structure gives every chapter its…

Blatty builds his possession story like a case file, sending a frightened mother through neurologists, psychiatrists and a homicide detective before a doubting Jesuit is asked to help. The method makes the horror feel…

Stoker tells his vampire story through journals, letters, cuttings and recordings, and the method is the masterstroke: the reader assembles the danger before the characters do. The castle chapters and the Whitby storm are…

Wilde's only novel turns a vain young man's wish into a portrait that records every sin while its sitter stays flawless. Lord Henry's dialogue is still the funniest in Gothic fiction and the horror…

Roche turns the March sisters into monster foster kids in Salem and writes a spooky, funny, surprisingly tender book about the eldest child who carries everyone. Meg is wonderfully drawn and the Little Women…