Horror Books

The best horror book reviews. The horror genre intends to shock, frighten and/or disgust its audience through specific story devices, such as psychotic characters, the presence of evil and the paranormal, and acts of extreme violence.

Best Horror Novel of 2024

Best Horror Novel of 2024: The Evil Men’s Book Club by T.C. Schueler

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best horror novel in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Get out the popcorn, because author T.C. Schueler has done wonders with the fear-based Y2K era by blending off-beat humor and campy horror into a novel that is hell-bent on maximizing entertainment value. Buddies Trevor Pug and Loo Spicotti form a book club, in which the only rules are selecting […]

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Cargo Hold 4, a Suspenseful Sci-Fi Thriller by Lonnie Busch

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The Bottom Line: Cargo Hold 4 elevates space horror, deftly replacing jump scares with nerve-racking dread, unforgettable supernatural phenomena and big-payoff action scenes.  For the eight scientists aboard the starship Gretel, space travel is anything but cold and silent. The racket from Cargo Hold 4 — banging, crying, moaning and a guttural vibration – is deeply unnerving, and the spooked crew has various theories on what

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Silver Bells: A Christmas Horror Story, an Addictive Holiday Horror Novel

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The Bottom Line: Only a grinch wouldn’t love this addictive holiday horror story. Highly recommended. Christmas has long been a celebration of hope emerging from the clutches of horror. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol features doomed ghostly apparitions confronting Scrooge, while Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas blends eerie comic horror elements with the warmth of holiday cheer. Sandy Lender’s Silver Bells: A Christmas Horror Story continues the tradition in Reindeer Creek, a festive

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You Like it Darker, a New Short Story Collection by Stephen King

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The Bottom Line: Experience Stephen King’s latest collection of short stories now, before the inevitable adaptations start popping up on your favorite streaming service.   Some of the best-known Stephen King adaptations for film and TV are based on his short stories and novellas: Children of the Corn, Stand by Me, The Night Flier, Mercy and many others. Throughout his career, King has routinely published story

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The Burying Point, an Unmissable Crime Thriller by Derik Cavignano

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The Bottom Line: Cavignano’s second Ray Hanley thriller is a brilliant and unmissable dance with the devil. Salem witch lore has rarely been as terrifying as it is in The Burying Point. As The Burying Point opens, Boston Police Ray Hanley arrives at the scene of what seems like an almost-perfect crime. The body of a young woman has been buried in a freshly dug grave just hours before she would have been covered by

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Rage of the Jinn, an Intoxicating Historical Thriller by Ox Devere

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The Bottom Line: An intoxicating, globetrotting historical thriller that is tailor-made for fans of Douglas Preston and Dan Brown.  Inspired by the 2019 real-life fire that destroyed significant portions of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, Rage of the Jinn imagines what excavators involved in the church’s restoration might have found after the blaze. Namely, a mysterious sarcophagus that had gone undetected for centuries. Researchers quickly determine that it was placed

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The Best C.J. Tudor Novels Ranked

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C.J. Tudor is an award-winning novelist who is fast-becoming one of the world’s most popular contemporary British writers. The Chalk Man won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, the Barry Award, and the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel. She’s also the author of The Burning Girls, The Other People and The Hiding Place. As her Amazon author page states, her love of

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Shadowed Horizons, the Year’s Best Paranormal Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Paranormal Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended..  A young psychic hunted by a psychopath. A tech genius determined to protect. A fate they can’t deny. Kiera Channon’s unique abilities make her a prime target for shadowy figures intent on dominating the supernatural world. Raised by a group of like-minded psychics, she has the unique ability to link with the two wolves

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THE GIRLS IN THE CABIN, One of the Year’s Best Thrillers

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Haunted by the tragic death of his wife, Chris McKenna retreats to the Rocky Mountains on a backpacking trip with his two young daughters in a bid to try and reconnect with them. When an early-season snowstorm drives them to seek shelter on an isolated farm, the family must contend with the people who reside there who are not at all what they seem. They

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Black Wing Sky

Black Wing Sky, an Epic Fantasy Thriller by Kaylin McFarren

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The Bottom Line: War between heaven and hell has never been this sexy. Sara J. Mass fans may find a new favorite author in Kaylin McFerren. The pacey fourth entry in Kaylin McFarren’s award-winning Gehenna series begins as Lucifer and his Council of Seven are about to enjoy a meal featuring a deliciously wicked ingredient: virgin’s blood. But before they can dig into this forbidden

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