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Thrilling Horror

From haunted houses to teens on murder sprees, these reads will have you on the edge of your seat and sleeping with the lights on.

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  • Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous…
    Book, 2023New York : Zando, 2023. — FIC SAMANO
  • "1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton--and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024. — FIC JONES
  • Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a…
    eBook, Image Comics
  • "Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families…
    Book, 2025New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025. — FIC LI
  • When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and…
    Book, 2022New York : Nightfire, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022. — FIC KINGFIS
  • "In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time.... An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves…
    Book, 2021New York : Nightfire, 2021. — FIC WARD
  • Ring Shout

    Or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times

    Clark, P. Djèlí,
    "In this dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white…
    Book, 2020New York : Tordotcom, [2020] — FIC CLARK
  • "The electrifying, award-winning, internationally bestselling novel about a dystopian world in which animals have been wiped out, humans are being harvested for food, and society has been divided into those who eat and those who are eaten."
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of SImon & Schuster, Inc., 2020. — FIC BAZTERR
  • "In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the…
    Book, 2023London ; New York : Hogarth, [2023] — FIC ENRIQUE
  • Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier…
    Book, 2020New York : Saga Press, 2020. — FIC JONES
  • "Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Saga Press, 2023. — FIC DUE
  • After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside.
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020] — FIC MORENO
  • "You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth."
    Book, 2023New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, [2023] — FIC KHAW
  • After strange things start happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, three employees volunteer to work an overnight shift to investigate, but what they discover is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
    Book, 2014Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2014] — FIC HENDRIX