My Ongoing List Of Favorite Horror Books

This is one of my absolute all-time favorite books overall, not just horror, I love it so much. I listened to it and would 100% recommend that if you like audiobooks. I don’t want to give too much away but I will say, if you don’t like gross things or descriptions of decomposing bodies, skip this one.

A father and son find three impossible corpses buried in their own backyard, and what follows is them trying to get to the bottom of this strange mystery.

I first read this on Reddit NoSleep and I literally couldn’t sleep.  My mom came into my room at like, 4 AM after I had read every part and all the comments and asked why I was up and I actually couldn’t sleep because I was so freaked out.  I re-read this one every couple of years.

In this novel, a man starts investigating a series of unrelated bizarre, tragic, and horrific events throughout his childhood.  Soon he finds out that these early fragments are really all part of one terrifying story that shaped his entire life, as well as those around him.

A group of four American friends are on vacation in Mexico when they meet some Greeks, Pablo, Juan, and Don Quixote, and a German, Mathias.

Mathias’s brother is missing after looking for some ruins with an archaeologist he met so the Americans and Pablo set out to look for the ruins and his brother. They get to Coba and what starts as a fun day trip slowly turns into an inescapable nightmare leaving the group hopeless in the jungle fighting the terrifying presence that lurks on the hill.

This is the graphic story of one gay male escort’s life told primarily via convoluted Internet drama from an escort review site and forum.

There is no good way to describe this book and I don’t know who I can possibly recommend it to, but it was so good.

A tornado warning lands a family trapped in their bathroom on the verge of self-destruction as things spiral out of control.

Phoebe, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades with her partner, but when they pass away, and after a series of “incidents,” she must now move to a unique long-term care residence.

All seems well at the beginning, and she’s even painting again, but before she knows it, everything is blurring together and she is lost to the passage of time. Is she succumbing to the signs of aging or an unwilling participant in something far more sinister?

Aloisville’s endless rain erases memories with each drop. Laverne journals as the town transforms, facing danger from leaky faucets and constant rainfall, always threatening to wash away everything she ever knew. Rebellion talk echoes, but Laverne just wants to survive in this memory-stealing downpour.

Every year on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger who claims to know the whereabouts of her missing friend Bobby. But he’ll only share what he knows for something of hers in return.

Her quest for closure leads her too bizarre acts of harm and humiliation with no escape from he demands of her correspondent. The letter’s don’t stop and have a profound effect on her.

Maeve Fly works at the Happiest Place on Earth and has a dark side no one knows about. That’s right, she’s a serial killer. Things seem to be going well in her life until all of a sudden they aren’t, and she takes things into her own hands.

Iðunn has visited doctor after doctor to try and get to the bottom of her fatigue and she has tried everything, but nothing helps.

In addition to eating better, exercising more, and establishing a night routine, she gets a step counter. She falls asleep with it on one night and wakes up to find she walked 40,000 steps the night before.

What is happening when she’s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won’t anyone believe her?

Charlie and Eve got a killer deal on this old house, and one day when Eve is working on it, there’s a knock at the door. The family says they used to live there and would love to take a look around, so she lets them in.

As they start to look around, weird things start to happen. Even weirder, they can’t take the hint that it’s time to leave. Eve starts to lose her grip on reality and can’t tell if something is wrong with the house, the family, or herself.

James and Amelia agree to a first date hoping to find connection, but they don’t expect to find it where they do.

In a house. At the bottom of a lake.

It’s cold and dark, but it’s theirs. Every time they go down, they have to decide if it’s worth going further. But just because it’s empty doesn’t mean no one is home.

The Atargatis set off to film a mockumentary in the Mariana Trench seven years ago. It was meant to bring ancient creatures of the sea to life but instead, it was lost at sea with everyone aboard. Some say it was a hoax, some say it was a tragedy.

Now, there is a new crew but they’re aim isn’t to entertain. Some want the truth, some want to validate their life’s work, and Victoria wants to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. They can only find the truth underwater and it comes with a price.

Our narrator’s parents are hurt in a debilitating accident so she gets a job at Holistik, a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City, awarding her entry into a world of privilege and a sense of belonging.

She becomes transfixed by Helen, the owner, who plies her with creams and serums that slim her things and brighten her hair, but what just seems like innocent beauty is far worse.

Angela has a husband, a house, and fortune—everything she thought she wanted. But when she sees Ben at the grocery story, her sexuality is reawakened and she delves into the world of underground pornography and back-alley plastic surgery.

Marcos’s wife left him. His father’s dementia is getting worse. And he just tries not to think too much about how he makes a living. It just happened so quickly.

One day it was reported that animal meat was poisonous to humans thanks to an infectious virus. Then the government started the Transition making it legal to eat human meat, Special Meat.

One day he is given a special treat: a live specimen of the finest quality. He knows personal contact is forbidden but he starts to treat her like a human being and becomes tortured by what has been lost and may be saved.

Twelve six year olds and three adult chaperones head into the woods for a field trip, but none of them make it out alive. This is the the harrowing tale of those days in the woods filled with illness, accidents, and a murderous child.