Horror genre books (201)


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Lord of the Fly Fest by Goldy Moldavsky EN

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Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
New York Times-bestselling author Goldy Moldasky delivers a darkly funny, twisty YA thriller about influencer culture that's Lord of the Flies meets Karen McManus.Rafi Francisco needs a splashy case to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi somehow scores a ticket to the exclusive Fly Fest, where River will be the headliner--and her starmaking interview.But when Rafi arrives on the Caribbean island location of Fly Fest with hundreds of other influencers, the... continue


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Madam Crowl's Ghost : And Other Stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Storiesare tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. The great M.R. James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.'

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Mary : An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary: An Awakening of Terror, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Harper's Bazaar 15 Best Books for Spooky Season USA Today 5 New Books This Week Book Riot Summer Scares (2022) CrimeReads Most Anticipated Crime Books 2022 Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out,... continue

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Meddling Kids : A Novel by Edgar Cantero EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Four former kid detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in an old haunted house. The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake.

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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN

Rating: 4 (48 votes)
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian IN DEVELOPMENT AS A HULU ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES PRODUCED BY KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Marie Claire, Vox, Mashable, Men’s Health, Library Journal, Book Riot, LibraryReads An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose the... continue

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Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
A "wholly unique" and "uncompromising" literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes) 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 little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decay... continue


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My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
Description:
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the only good thing in Roos’ life, which is filled with sordid backroom séances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these séances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes is palpable. So how does someon... continue

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My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Protected by horror movies -- especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake--