Lush, imaginative, and teeming with skin crawling imagery, The Hollow Kind is a stunning blending of genres and eras into one very impactful package. With its sequel, Frendo Lives, he returns to his world of killer clowns for a sequel that’s part homage to many classic Part Twos in slasher history, part meditation on conspiracy theories and modern brutality, and it all works. With Clown in a Cornfield, Adam Cesare crafted a modern slasher gem packed with juicy plotting and unforgettable kills. Leading with one of the most unforgettable first chapters in recent horror history, Nat Cassidy’s novel about a woman who journeys back into her own past and finds something horrifying will rattle your nervous system from the very first page, and basically never stop.įull of gripping character moments and memorable, inventive imagery, Mary: An Awakening of Terror is one of those horror novels that will make your skin crawl while also seducing you into never putting it down.Ĭlown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy You’ll get lost in the atmosphere of The Hacienda, then swept away in the darkness. What happens next is a juicy, romantic, endlessly creepy descent into the Gothic that announces Isabel Cañas as one of modern horror’s most satisfying, promising new voices. In 19th century Mexico, a woman settles into the estate of her new husband, eager to turn the rundown house into something brighter, more like home. Adams’ prose is laced with dark beauty, and her story of a group of survivors working to track down a monster will keep you reading late into the night. In The Jackal, a woman returns home for a friend’s wedding and finds that old terrors are still very much alive and well in this crackling, wonderfully suspenseful novel about a violent predator hunting down Black girls across decades in one Pennsylvania town.Įrin E. So, from new twists on the haunted house story to an unorthodox vampire novel and beyond, here are our picks for the 15 best horror books of the year. That’s reflected in the best horror books released in 2022, a collection of stories from across the cultural and literary spectrum, each of which will scare you in its own beautifully gruesome way. Whether you’re picking up novels from major publishers or short story collections by small presses, scary stories are thriving in print right now, and they’re thriving in a very diverse, eclectic way.
It’s a very good time to be reading horror.
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