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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.

Carnivores, a Relentless Survival Thriller by Jason Melby

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The Bottom Line: A relentless survival thriller with real bite. Melby shows us what happens when nature stops playing by the rules, and for once, a terrifying reptile nightmare feels like it could actually happen. Highly recommended. Carnivores opens as herpetology professor Christina Flannagan and teaching assistant Kyle Daily enter the Florida Everglades to recapture Henry, a tagged Burmese python used in her ongoing study

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Smiling Faceless Woman, a Character-Rich Supernatural Thriller by Thomas J. Gebhardt III

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The Bottom Line: A character-rich supernatural thriller that blends terror, romantic suspense and spirituality into a novel you won’t soon forget. Long live SPIRAL. Smiling Faceless Woman opens in the fictional American city of Emerald City, where an infamous “Demon House” with a disturbing local reputation sits in the neighborhood of Lower Bloom Hill. College student Alex Jacobsen arrives with a preacher and a paranormal

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Normal for the Spider, a Must-Read Thriller by Hank Schwaeble

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The Bottom Line: A must-read blend of horror, crime and comedy that reinvents the predator-versus-predator thriller. Warning: this review may contain spoilers! Normal for the Spider opens in an unnamed American city as Sienna Shaw, a practiced thief and experienced killer who committed her first murder shortly after turning fourteen, realizes she is being followed. Seeking to lose her pursuers, Sienna slips into a bookstore

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Do Not Resuscitate, One of the Year’s Best Supernatural Thrillers

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The Bottom Line: One of the year’s best supernatural thrillers. Written with clinical authenticity and paranormal suspense, Do Not Resuscitate finds terror in the thin line between resuscitation and resurrection. Twenty-six-year-old medical intern Harry Lindmark is working the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, when a patient grabs his arm and demands that his chart be marked, “Do Not Resuscitate.” But

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Call Game, a First-Rate Medical Thriller in a Snowbound Hospital

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The Bottom Line: One night in a snowbound hospital becomes a deadly maze of misdirection and murder. Don’t miss this first-rate medical thriller. On a stormy Thanksgiving eve at Northern Michigan General Hospital, Call Game drops its chief orthopedic resident into a shift that begins in blood and quickly becomes a test of nerve, skill, and institutional failure. Dr. Rylan Fraser arrives in the emergency

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Murder Under Redwood Moon, a Spellbinding Paranormal Thriller by Sherri L. Dodd

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The Bottom Line: A spellbinding small-town paranormal thriller where witchcraft and murder make deadly company.  Set in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, Murder Under Redwood Moon is the story of a spiritually attuned young woman whose quiet routines begin to fracture. Twenty-three-year-old Arista Kelly spends her time practicing witchcraft when she’s not working in the Earth & Ocean crystal shop. Troubling visions of an ominous tattoo, mounting unrest

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Best Horror Novel of 2025

The Rules of Kongo is the Year’s Best Horror & Supernatural Novel 

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Horror & Supernatural Novel in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The Rules of Kongo earns this year’s Best Horror and Supernatural Novel Award because, in the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs, it delivers a rare fusion of hard-edged crime fiction and deeply unsettling terror. On plot alone, it stands as a fully absorbing law enforcement procedural, yet its

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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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