Best Horror Books | Summaries & Audio

Horror Book Summaries

The Devil Rides Out

by Dennis Wheatley • 1934

An occultist duke and his American friend battle a black magician to reclaim a man's soul.

3.77

2k+

🕵️ Occult Detective 🕯️ Secret Satanic Cult 🌑 Occult Initiation 🔮 Ritual Magic 🏃 Supernatural Pursuit

The Devil Rides Out

An occultist duke and his American friend battle a black magician to reclaim a man's soul.

by Dennis Wheatley 1934 320 pages

3.77

2k+ ratings

🕵️ Occult Detective 🕯️ Secret Satanic Cult 🌑 Occult Initiation 🔮 Ritual Magic 🏃 Supernatural Pursuit

Departure 37

by Scott Carson • 2025

Voices of the dead warn every pilot. Then a B-52 missing since 1962 lands.

3.82

2k+

🕰️ Time Travel Thriller 🥶 Cold War Paranoia 🕵️ Government Cover-Up 👻 Voices Of The Dead 🏚️ Small Town Secrets

Departure 37

Voices of the dead warn every pilot. Then a B-52 missing since 1962 lands.

by Scott Carson 2025 389 pages

3.82

2k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Thriller 🥶 Cold War Paranoia 🕵️ Government Cover-Up 👻 Voices Of The Dead 🏚️ Small Town Secrets

Ghosts

by Edith Wharton • 1937

Old houses, rational minds, and the quiet terror of discovering you are not alone.

3.85

1k+

🖋️ Literary Ghost Stories 🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Haunted Houses 👻 Ambiguous Ghosts 😰 Quiet Dread

Ghosts

Old houses, rational minds, and the quiet terror of discovering you are not alone.

by Edith Wharton 1937 288 pages

3.85

1k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Ghost Stories 🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Haunted Houses 👻 Ambiguous Ghosts 😰 Quiet Dread

I Am Legend

by Richard Matheson • 1954

The last man alive barricades his home nightly against the neighbors who want his blood.

4.05

100k+

🧛 Vampire Pandemic 🌍 Last Man On Earth 🏠 Makeshift Fortress 🔬 Scientific Rationalism 😈 Protagonist As Monster

I Am Legend

The last man alive barricades his home nightly against the neighbors who want his blood.

by Richard Matheson 1954 101 pages

4.05

100k+ ratings

🧛 Vampire Pandemic 🌍 Last Man On Earth 🏠 Makeshift Fortress 🔬 Scientific Rationalism 😈 Protagonist As Monster

Catharsis

by Travis Bagwell • 2016

The VR game's AI reads a bullied teen's rage and offers him a kingdom of the undead.

4.37

16k+

🎮 Litrpg 🌐 Vr Game World 💀 Necromancer Protagonist 🔥 Revenge Arc 🖤 Corruption Arc

Catharsis

The VR game's AI reads a bullied teen's rage and offers him a kingdom of the undead.

by Travis Bagwell 2016 525 pages

4.37

16k+ ratings

🎮 Litrpg 🌐 Vr Game World 💀 Necromancer Protagonist 🔥 Revenge Arc 🖤 Corruption Arc

Powers of Darkness

by Valdimar Ásmundsson • 1901

A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.

3.63

1k+

🦇 Vampire Conspiracy 🖤 Erotic Horror 💋 Femme Fatale Vampire 🕯️ Ritual Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror

Powers of Darkness

A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.

by Valdimar Ásmundsson 1901 309 pages

3.63

1k+ ratings

🦇 Vampire Conspiracy 🖤 Erotic Horror 💋 Femme Fatale Vampire 🕯️ Ritual Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror

Dark & Darker Still

by Nikki St. Crowe • 2025

She hears the dead and is bound to two monster brothers. A political marriage spells catastrophe.

4.16

4k+

🃏 Wonderland Retelling 🥀 Toxic Monster Romance 🖤 Toxic Love Triangle 🗡️ Touch Her And Die 💀 Necromancer Heroine

Dark & Darker Still

She hears the dead and is bound to two monster brothers. A political marriage spells catastrophe.

by Nikki St. Crowe 2025 149 pages

4.16

4k+ ratings

🃏 Wonderland Retelling 🥀 Toxic Monster Romance 🖤 Toxic Love Triangle 🗡️ Touch Her And Die 💀 Necromancer Heroine

Alien

by Tim Lebbon • 2014

Ripley wakes on a crippled mining ship where the creatures she fled are already hunting.

3.82

13k+

🚀 Space Horror 👾 Creature Feature 💔 Traumatized Survivor 🧠 Memory Erasure 🤖 Hostile AI

Alien

Ripley wakes on a crippled mining ship where the creatures she fled are already hunting.

by Tim Lebbon 2014 352 pages

3.82

13k+ ratings

🚀 Space Horror 👾 Creature Feature 💔 Traumatized Survivor 🧠 Memory Erasure 🤖 Hostile AI

The Blonde Dies First

by Joelle Wellington • 2024

A séance summons a demon that picks off a Brooklyn friend group in horror-movie kill order.

3.56

3k+

🎬 Meta Horror 🔪 Supernatural Slasher 👯 Twin Sisters 🏃‍♀️ Final Girl 💕 Sapphic Romance

The Blonde Dies First

A séance summons a demon that picks off a Brooklyn friend group in horror-movie kill order.

by Joelle Wellington 2024 336 pages

3.56

3k+ ratings

🎬 Meta Horror 🔪 Supernatural Slasher 👯 Twin Sisters 🏃‍♀️ Final Girl 💕 Sapphic Romance

Itch!

by Gemma Amor • 2025

An ant infestation after finding a corpse forces her to confront her family's secrets and a ritual.

3.71

3k+

🌾 Folk Horror 🤢 Body Horror 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Horror 🔥 Feminine Rage 🔄 Unreliable Narrator

Itch!

An ant infestation after finding a corpse forces her to confront her family's secrets and a ritual.

by Gemma Amor 2025 352 pages

3.71

3k+ ratings

🌾 Folk Horror 🤢 Body Horror 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Horror 🔥 Feminine Rage 🔄 Unreliable Narrator

Born in Blood

by Sadie Kincaid • 2024

A Victorian rake turned vampire awakens an immortal hunger that binds him to his ancient sire.

3.83

7k+

🩸 Sire Bond 🏙️ Victorian London 🎩 Rake Hero 🦇 Gothic Atmosphere ⚔️ Revenge Quest

Born in Blood

A Victorian rake turned vampire awakens an immortal hunger that binds him to his ancient sire.

by Sadie Kincaid 2024 58 pages

3.83

7k+ ratings

🩸 Sire Bond 🏙️ Victorian London 🎩 Rake Hero 🦇 Gothic Atmosphere ⚔️ Revenge Quest

Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • 2018

A scientist creates life, then abandons his creature to a world that sees only a monster.

3.92

1.9M+

🖤 Gothic Horror ⚡ Playing God 👹 Sympathetic Monster 🔥 Doomed Ambition 💀 Philosophical Horror

Frankenstein

A scientist creates life, then abandons his creature to a world that sees only a monster.

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2018 260 pages

3.92

1.9M+ ratings

🖤 Gothic Horror ⚡ Playing God 👹 Sympathetic Monster 🔥 Doomed Ambition 💀 Philosophical Horror

The Dead House

by Dawn Kurtagich • 2015

One body, two souls. When her sister vanishes, Kaitlyn is left alone with a whispering voice.

3.67

8k+

🏫 Gothic Boarding School 📹 Found Footage Horror 👥 Two Souls One Body 👹 Possession And Exorcism 🤐 Unreliable Narrator

The Dead House

One body, two souls. When her sister vanishes, Kaitlyn is left alone with a whispering voice.

by Dawn Kurtagich 2015 440 pages

3.67

8k+ ratings

🏫 Gothic Boarding School 📹 Found Footage Horror 👥 Two Souls One Body 👹 Possession And Exorcism 🤐 Unreliable Narrator

Night Watcher

by Daphne Woolsoncroft • 2025

She survived a masked killer as a child. Now a caller dies on her radio show.

3.70

15k+

🗡️ Serial Killer Thriller 🔪 Final Girl 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔒 Family Secrets 😷 Masked Killer

Night Watcher

She survived a masked killer as a child. Now a caller dies on her radio show.

by Daphne Woolsoncroft 2025 336 pages

3.70

15k+ ratings

🗡️ Serial Killer Thriller 🔪 Final Girl 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔒 Family Secrets 😷 Masked Killer

The Desolations of Devil's Acre

by Ransom Riggs • 2021

When time loops shatter, a resurrected tyrant rises. Only a girl with stolen light can end him.

4.22

25k+

🏁 Series Finale 🫂 Found Family 🔮 Prophecy Chosen Ones 👹 Resurrected Tyrant 🐺 Becoming The Monster

The Desolations of Devil's Acre

When time loops shatter, a resurrected tyrant rises. Only a girl with stolen light can end him.

by Ransom Riggs 2021 528 pages

4.22

25k+ ratings

🏁 Series Finale 🫂 Found Family 🔮 Prophecy Chosen Ones 👹 Resurrected Tyrant 🐺 Becoming The Monster

The Loop

by Ben Oliver • 2020

In a jail that harvests fear, a teen relies on secret friendships until the rain stops.

3.9

8k+

🏚️ Dystopian Prison 📡 Ai Surveillance 🫂 Found Family 🔓 Prison Escape 🧪 Chemical Plague

The Loop

In a jail that harvests fear, a teen relies on secret friendships until the rain stops.

by Ben Oliver 2020 368 pages

3.9

8k+ ratings

🏚️ Dystopian Prison 📡 Ai Surveillance 🫂 Found Family 🔓 Prison Escape 🧪 Chemical Plague

The Changeling

by Victor LaValle • 2017

Thinking their baby a changeling, a book dealer's wife acts terribly; he must search mythic city.

3.76

28k+

🧚 Modern Fairy Tale 🧒 Changeling Lore 👩‍🍼 Postpartum Horror 🕸️ Generational Trauma 🔮 Family Curse

The Changeling

Thinking their baby a changeling, a book dealer's wife acts terribly; he must search mythic city.

by Victor LaValle 2017 431 pages

3.76

28k+ ratings

🧚 Modern Fairy Tale 🧒 Changeling Lore 👩‍🍼 Postpartum Horror 🕸️ Generational Trauma 🔮 Family Curse

Roses of May

by Dot Hutchison • 2017

Her sister's killer left flowers on every body. Now bouquets are arriving at Priya's door.

3.9

64k+

🗡️ Serial Killer Thriller 💐 Ritualistic Murder 🫂 Found Family ♟️ Intergenerational Bonds 🩹 Trauma Recovery

Roses of May

Her sister's killer left flowers on every body. Now bouquets are arriving at Priya's door.

by Dot Hutchison 2017 302 pages

3.9

64k+ ratings

🗡️ Serial Killer Thriller 💐 Ritualistic Murder 🫂 Found Family ♟️ Intergenerational Bonds 🩹 Trauma Recovery

All Hallows

by Christopher Golden • 2023

When lost children beg for help on Halloween, a neighborhood learns what hides in the dark.

3.52

12k+

🌲 Suburban Folk Horror 🎃 Halloween Horror 🏘️ Haunted Neighborhood 😱 Children In Peril 🔒 Family Secrets

All Hallows

When lost children beg for help on Halloween, a neighborhood learns what hides in the dark.

by Christopher Golden 2023 325 pages

3.52

12k+ ratings

🌲 Suburban Folk Horror 🎃 Halloween Horror 🏘️ Haunted Neighborhood 😱 Children In Peril 🔒 Family Secrets

Cold as Hell

by Rhett C. Bruno • 2022

A resurrected gunslinger hunts three outlaws whose hellish ice freezes the frontier dead.

3.99

2k+

🤠 Weird West 🔍 Occult Detective 🕊️ Redemption Quest 🎭 Cursed Artifact 🖤 Gothic Western

Cold as Hell

A resurrected gunslinger hunts three outlaws whose hellish ice freezes the frontier dead.

by Rhett C. Bruno 2022 454 pages

3.99

2k+ ratings

🤠 Weird West 🔍 Occult Detective 🕊️ Redemption Quest 🎭 Cursed Artifact 🖤 Gothic Western

Nestlings

by Nat Cassidy • 2023

A paraplegic mother wins a luxury apartment in a building that feeds on families like hers.

3.78

28k+

🩸 Postpartum Horror 🏢 Sentient Building 🦴 Body Horror 🏚️ Gothic Apartment 🕷️ Parasitic Colony

Nestlings

A paraplegic mother wins a luxury apartment in a building that feeds on families like hers.

by Nat Cassidy 2023 293 pages

3.78

28k+ ratings

🩸 Postpartum Horror 🏢 Sentient Building 🦴 Body Horror 🏚️ Gothic Apartment 🕷️ Parasitic Colony

The Silent Companions

by Laura Purcell • 2017

A pregnant widow inherits a crumbling estate where wooden figures with painted eyes appear to move.

3.87

46k+

🪆 Haunted Dolls 🔁 Generational Curse 🤐 Unreliable Narrator 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🏚️ Crumbling Estate

The Silent Companions

A pregnant widow inherits a crumbling estate where wooden figures with painted eyes appear to move.

by Laura Purcell 2017 305 pages

3.87

46k+ ratings

🪆 Haunted Dolls 🔁 Generational Curse 🤐 Unreliable Narrator 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🏚️ Crumbling Estate

North American Lake Monsters

by Nathan Ballingrud • 2013

Werewolves on a construction site, an angel in a broken home: the supernatural mirrors human grief.

3.95

6k+

🖤 Literary Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🔧 Working Class Horror 🕯️ Supernatural Grief 🏚️ Haunted Families

North American Lake Monsters

Werewolves on a construction site, an angel in a broken home: the supernatural mirrors human grief.

by Nathan Ballingrud 2013 205 pages

3.95

6k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🔧 Working Class Horror 🕯️ Supernatural Grief 🏚️ Haunted Families

The Atrocity Archives

by Charles Stross • 2004

Bob Howard's IT job implodes when he's drafted to fight cosmic horrors with applied mathematics.

3.89

27k+

🐙 Lovecraftian Horror 🕵️ Occult Espionage 😬 Reluctant Spy 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare 🖤 Dark Satire

The Atrocity Archives

Bob Howard's IT job implodes when he's drafted to fight cosmic horrors with applied mathematics.

by Charles Stross 2004 345 pages

3.89

27k+ ratings

🐙 Lovecraftian Horror 🕵️ Occult Espionage 😬 Reluctant Spy 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare 🖤 Dark Satire

Dear Killer

by Katherine Ewell • 2014

A London schoolgirl takes murder commissions; the detective hunting her becomes her confidant.

3.47

4k+

🗡️ Teen Assassin 🖤 Nihilistic Protagonist 👤 Secret Identity 🐱🐭 Cat And Mouse 🪓 Inherited Violence

Dear Killer

A London schoolgirl takes murder commissions; the detective hunting her becomes her confidant.

by Katherine Ewell 2014 362 pages

3.47

4k+ ratings

🗡️ Teen Assassin 🖤 Nihilistic Protagonist 👤 Secret Identity 🐱🐭 Cat And Mouse 🪓 Inherited Violence

Parasite

by Mira Grant • 2013

Her life-saving tapeworm is waking up. It wants control of her body and everyone else's.

3.68

19k+

🩸 Medical Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Outbreak 🔍 Lost Identity 🏢 Corporate Cover-Up 🧬 Hybrid Consciousness

Parasite

Her life-saving tapeworm is waking up. It wants control of her body and everyone else's.

by Mira Grant 2013 504 pages

3.68

19k+ ratings

🩸 Medical Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Outbreak 🔍 Lost Identity 🏢 Corporate Cover-Up 🧬 Hybrid Consciousness

The Last Guest House

by Caroline Mitchell • 2024

A snowbound inn, a girl in the walls, and guests who are not what they seem.

3.77

4k+

🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🌫️ Scottish Gothic 🕯️ Cult Thriller 🎙️ True Crime Podcast 🚪 Secret Passages

The Last Guest House

A snowbound inn, a girl in the walls, and guests who are not what they seem.

by Caroline Mitchell 2024 237 pages

3.77

4k+ ratings

🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🌫️ Scottish Gothic 🕯️ Cult Thriller 🎙️ True Crime Podcast 🚪 Secret Passages

Paladin's Strength

by T. Kingfisher • 2021

When a paladin wins a werebear nun, her kidnapped sisters draw them into a city of stolen bodies.

4.17

29k+

🐻 Shifter Romance 💕 Allies To Lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚔️ Wounded Warrior 🎭 Secret Identity

Paladin's Strength

When a paladin wins a werebear nun, her kidnapped sisters draw them into a city of stolen bodies.

by T. Kingfisher 2021 445 pages

4.17

29k+ ratings

🐻 Shifter Romance 💕 Allies To Lovers 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚔️ Wounded Warrior 🎭 Secret Identity

The Place Where They Buried Your Heart

by Christina Henry • 2025

Her dare sends her brother into the abandoned house. He vanishes, and the house is hungry.

3.85

5k+

🏚️ Haunted House Horror 👁️ Cosmic Horror 🏠 Sentient House 💔 Grief Horror 🏘️ Suburban Horror

The Place Where They Buried Your Heart

Her dare sends her brother into the abandoned house. He vanishes, and the house is hungry.

by Christina Henry 2025 305 pages

3.85

5k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted House Horror 👁️ Cosmic Horror 🏠 Sentient House 💔 Grief Horror 🏘️ Suburban Horror

The Best New True Crime Stories

by Mitzi Szereto • 2020

A German village, a cannibal forum, and the volunteer who agreed to be eaten.

3.29

340

🏘️ Small Town Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology 🌐 Internet Subcultures 🍖 Cannibalism 📚 True Crime Anthology

The Best New True Crime Stories

A German village, a cannibal forum, and the volunteer who agreed to be eaten.

by Mitzi Szereto 2020 256 pages

3.29

340 ratings

🏘️ Small Town Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology 🌐 Internet Subcultures 🍖 Cannibalism 📚 True Crime Anthology

The Whistling

by Rebecca Netley • 2021

A nanny on a remote Scottish island discovers a mute child and a house that whistles.

3.65

9k+

🕯️ Gothic Mansion 🕰️ Victorian Scotland 👻 Haunted House 👶 Nanny Protagonist 🧒 Mute Child

The Whistling

A nanny on a remote Scottish island discovers a mute child and a house that whistles.

by Rebecca Netley 2021 378 pages

3.65

9k+ ratings

🕯️ Gothic Mansion 🕰️ Victorian Scotland 👻 Haunted House 👶 Nanny Protagonist 🧒 Mute Child

Stranger Things

by Suyi Davies • 2022

Lucas Sinclair's fresh start meets Hawkins racism and a demon that feeds on trauma.

4.07

1k+

🏚️ Supernatural Small Town 🎒 Coming Of Age Horror 🔄 Code Switching 🎭 Small Town Racism 🏀 Basketball Identity

Stranger Things

Lucas Sinclair's fresh start meets Hawkins racism and a demon that feeds on trauma.

by Suyi Davies 2022 310 pages

4.07

1k+ ratings

🏚️ Supernatural Small Town 🎒 Coming Of Age Horror 🔄 Code Switching 🎭 Small Town Racism 🏀 Basketball Identity

Be Right Back

by Bill Wood • 2026

Four survivors of a slasher return home to a copycat staging urban legends as crime scenes.

3.79

1k+

🔪 Slasher Horror 🎬 Meta Horror 👻 Urban Legend Horror 🎭 Copycat Killer 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance

Be Right Back

Four survivors of a slasher return home to a copycat staging urban legends as crime scenes.

by Bill Wood 2026 348 pages

3.79

1k+ ratings

🔪 Slasher Horror 🎬 Meta Horror 👻 Urban Legend Horror 🎭 Copycat Killer 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance

Fruit of the Flesh

by I.V. Ophelia • 2026

A ballerina weds a sculptor out of spite, but shared violence reveals appetites darker than love.

3.46

5k+

🖤 Marriage Of Convenience 🍖 Cannibal Desire 🔪 Morally Grey Couple 🎨 Artist And Muse 🌹 Sensual Horror

Fruit of the Flesh

A ballerina weds a sculptor out of spite, but shared violence reveals appetites darker than love.

by I.V. Ophelia 2026 331 pages

3.46

5k+ ratings

🖤 Marriage Of Convenience 🍖 Cannibal Desire 🔪 Morally Grey Couple 🎨 Artist And Muse 🌹 Sensual Horror

Sleep Tight

by J.H. Markert • 2024

A detective's daughter is abducted, forcing her to hunt a killer who mirrors her own buried past.

3.64

26k+

🕯️ Cult Horror 🔪 Serial Killer 🎭 Multiple Personalities 🧠 Repressed Trauma 🖤 Generational Trauma

Sleep Tight

A detective's daughter is abducted, forcing her to hunt a killer who mirrors her own buried past.

by J.H. Markert 2024 336 pages

3.64

26k+ ratings

🕯️ Cult Horror 🔪 Serial Killer 🎭 Multiple Personalities 🧠 Repressed Trauma 🖤 Generational Trauma

The Farmhouse

by Chelsea Conradt • 2025

Grieving her mother, she buys a remote Nebraska farmhouse. Then the barn starts leaving teeth.

3.26

2k+

🏚️ Gothic Farmhouse 🌾 Rural Horror 🤐 Gaslit Protagonist 👻 Ghostly Warnings ⛓️ Generational Violence

The Farmhouse

Grieving her mother, she buys a remote Nebraska farmhouse. Then the barn starts leaving teeth.

by Chelsea Conradt 2025 432 pages

3.26

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Farmhouse 🌾 Rural Horror 🤐 Gaslit Protagonist 👻 Ghostly Warnings ⛓️ Generational Violence

At Dark, I Become Loathsome

by Eric LaRocca • 2025

After his son vanished, he started burying strangers alive. His last client knows what happened.

3.20

5k+

🪦 Grief Horror 🩸 Transgressive Horror 🦴 Queer Body Horror 🪞 Self-Loathing Narrator 🔩 Body Modification

At Dark, I Become Loathsome

After his son vanished, he started burying strangers alive. His last client knows what happened.

by Eric LaRocca 2025 178 pages

3.20

5k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Horror 🩸 Transgressive Horror 🦴 Queer Body Horror 🪞 Self-Loathing Narrator 🔩 Body Modification

Midwinterblood

by Marcus Sedgwick • 2011

On an island without night or aging, a journalist meets a stranger he's loved for centuries.

3.71

11k+

💞 Reincarnation Romance 🌒 Folk Horror 🔄 Cyclical Narrative 🩸 Ritual Sacrifice 🏝️ Isolated Island

Midwinterblood

On an island without night or aging, a journalist meets a stranger he's loved for centuries.

by Marcus Sedgwick 2011 264 pages

3.71

11k+ ratings

💞 Reincarnation Romance 🌒 Folk Horror 🔄 Cyclical Narrative 🩸 Ritual Sacrifice 🏝️ Isolated Island

The Once and Future Me

by Melissa Pace • 2025

She wakes in a 1954 asylum with no past and a future she cannot remember.

3.55

3k+

🕰️ Time Travel Trauma 🏥 Psychiatric Horror 🏚️ Midcentury Asylum 🧩 Fractured Identity 💍 Gaslighting Husband

The Once and Future Me

She wakes in a 1954 asylum with no past and a future she cannot remember.

by Melissa Pace 2025 384 pages

3.55

3k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Trauma 🏥 Psychiatric Horror 🏚️ Midcentury Asylum 🧩 Fractured Identity 💍 Gaslighting Husband

Bury Your Gays

by Chuck Tingle • 2024

When a screenwriter won't kill his queer leads, the studio's AI sends his own monsters after him.

4.04

31k+

🪞 Metafictional Horror 🎬 Hollywood Horror 👹 Monsters Made Real 💔 Trauma As Monster 🫂 Found Family

Bury Your Gays

When a screenwriter won't kill his queer leads, the studio's AI sends his own monsters after him.

by Chuck Tingle 2024 295 pages

4.04

31k+ ratings

🪞 Metafictional Horror 🎬 Hollywood Horror 👹 Monsters Made Real 💔 Trauma As Monster 🫂 Found Family

The Awakening

by L.J. Smith • 1999

A high school queen falls for a vampire whose love has already destroyed one girl.

3.32

88k+

🩸 Vampire Romance 🏚️ Gothic Small Town 💔 Paranormal Love Triangle ⚔️ Brother Rivalry 🖤 Vegetarian Vampire

The Awakening

A high school queen falls for a vampire whose love has already destroyed one girl.

by L.J. Smith 1999 253 pages

3.32

88k+ ratings

🩸 Vampire Romance 🏚️ Gothic Small Town 💔 Paranormal Love Triangle ⚔️ Brother Rivalry 🖤 Vegetarian Vampire

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

by John Wiswell • 2024

A flesh-eating shapeshifter falls in love with the daughter of the hunters who want her dead.

3.86

24k+

👹 Monster Romance 🫀 Body Horror 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🏠 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

A flesh-eating shapeshifter falls in love with the daughter of the hunters who want her dead.

by John Wiswell 2024 310 pages

3.86

24k+ ratings

👹 Monster Romance 🫀 Body Horror 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🏠 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

Nocturnes & Nightmares

by Keri Lake • 2019

An assassin rents a room from the woman a serial killer wants dead.

3.89

2k+

🖤 Dark Romantic Suspense 👀 Protective Stalker 👩‍👦 Single Mother Heroine 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Traumatized Hero

Nocturnes & Nightmares

An assassin rents a room from the woman a serial killer wants dead.

by Keri Lake 2019

3.89

2k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Romantic Suspense 👀 Protective Stalker 👩‍👦 Single Mother Heroine 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Traumatized Hero

Collected Ghost Stories

by M.R. James • 1931

Cursed manuscripts, unraveling fabrics, and unearthly summons: classic English ghost stories.

4.12

7k+

🏛️ Antiquarian Horror 💀 Cursed Objects 🕯️ Slow-Burn Dread 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 📜 Hidden Manuscripts

Collected Ghost Stories

Cursed manuscripts, unraveling fabrics, and unearthly summons: classic English ghost stories.

by M.R. James 1931 568 pages

4.12

7k+ ratings

🏛️ Antiquarian Horror 💀 Cursed Objects 🕯️ Slow-Burn Dread 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 📜 Hidden Manuscripts

World After

by Susan Ee • 2013

Angels turned her sister into a monster. Now Penryn fights to protect her from everyone.

4.14

100k+

🖤 Fallen Angel Romance ⚔️ Sentient Weapon 💪 Reluctant Warrior 🦴 Body Horror 👧 Protective Sister

World After

Angels turned her sister into a monster. Now Penryn fights to protect her from everyone.

by Susan Ee 2013 320 pages

4.14

100k+ ratings

🖤 Fallen Angel Romance ⚔️ Sentient Weapon 💪 Reluctant Warrior 🦴 Body Horror 👧 Protective Sister

Senseless

by Ronald Malfi • 2025

A widowed detective chases a desert mutilator into the orbit of a crumbling Hollywood family.

3.83

2k+

🕵️ Serial Killer 🧠 Psychological Horror 📖 Cursed Object 💔 Grieving Detective 🏚️ Dysfunctional Family

Senseless

A widowed detective chases a desert mutilator into the orbit of a crumbling Hollywood family.

by Ronald Malfi 2025 432 pages

3.83

2k+ ratings

🕵️ Serial Killer 🧠 Psychological Horror 📖 Cursed Object 💔 Grieving Detective 🏚️ Dysfunctional Family

Dark Sisters

by Kristi DeMeester • 2025

In her father's megachurch, purity is law. In the woods, something older and hungrier waits.

3.81

6k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🖤 Feminist Horror 🩸 Generational Curse 🗡️ Blood Magic ⛪ Purity Culture

Dark Sisters

In her father's megachurch, purity is law. In the woods, something older and hungrier waits.

by Kristi DeMeester 2025 326 pages

3.81

6k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🖤 Feminist Horror 🩸 Generational Curse 🗡️ Blood Magic ⛪ Purity Culture

Blood on Her Tongue

by Johanna van Veen • 2025

A desperate letter summons her to a remote estate where a bog body stirs a hunger.

3.79

20k+

📜 Epistolary Horror 👯 Twin Horror 🧬 Changeling Myth 🩸 Body Horror 🌿 Bog Setting

Blood on Her Tongue

A desperate letter summons her to a remote estate where a bog body stirs a hunger.

by Johanna van Veen 2025 368 pages

3.79

20k+ ratings

📜 Epistolary Horror 👯 Twin Horror 🧬 Changeling Myth 🩸 Body Horror 🌿 Bog Setting

Hum

by Helen Phillips • 2024

A mother sells her face to AI for cash. Her children vanish into a watching city.

3.50

13k+

🤖 Near-Future Dystopia 👁️ Surveillance Society 🤱 Maternal Anxiety 😰 Child In Peril 📱 Viral Shaming

Hum

A mother sells her face to AI for cash. Her children vanish into a watching city.

by Helen Phillips 2024 272 pages

3.50

13k+ ratings

🤖 Near-Future Dystopia 👁️ Surveillance Society 🤱 Maternal Anxiety 😰 Child In Peril 📱 Viral Shaming

Pay the Piper

by George A. Romero • 2024

A bayou town's children vanish, and a girl's death log faces an ancient horror demanding payment.

3.58

1k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🐊 Louisiana Bayou 🌿 Folk Horror 💀 Generational Curse 👧 Child Protagonist

Pay the Piper

A bayou town's children vanish, and a girl's death log faces an ancient horror demanding payment.

by George A. Romero 2024 328 pages

3.58

1k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🐊 Louisiana Bayou 🌿 Folk Horror 💀 Generational Curse 👧 Child Protagonist

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