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Top 32 Best Horror Books Of The Decade Updated 04 /2024

Dennis Lehane
  Apr 18, 2024 6:20 PM

Here we ranked and reviewed the top 32 Best Horror Books Of The Decade that are highly rated by 359,383 customers.

 


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    Eraserhead Press
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    White Lion Publishing
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    Blackstone Publishing
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    Night Shade
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    Penguin
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    Greyson Media Associates
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Best Horror Books Of The Decade

Horror is one of the many types of literature that make up modern literature. The shelves are full of vampires, zombies, psychos, apocalypses, and more. It's a wonder they don't drip when we're not looking. Even though it's a subset of fiction, it doesn't get a lot of attention on its own. It needs actors who look good, big franchises, and the name "King." Which is bad. So many things can be done with it, and so many colors and shapes can thrills and scares take. It's bad because there's so much to do with it! One of the main purposes of horror is to really get down to the heart of human emotion, existence even. It also helps us understand how the outlandish and the unexplainable can have an effect on us. This is something we can easily forget because of all the sparkles and screen fights and marketing people. Whether we're talking about squid deities who don't follow the rules of geometry, evil phantasms, or a lot of angry birds, the darker fruits of the imagination stay fresh the longest.

In terms of movies, Netflix and Hollywood seem to keep the genre going strong. But what about the books? It might be a good idea to look back at eight of the scariest and most creative books that have come out since 2010. We're nearing the end of this decade, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at them. Among them are:

Fellside by M.R. Carey

From the author of The Girl With All the Gifts, this one is chilling and scary at times. It's also not short on skin-crawling. Following an accident in which she accidentally set fire to her apartment while high on drugs, a young boy was killed. She was sent to an isolated prison in the Yorkshire Moors, which are not known for being kind. During the night, the boy comes to haunt her in the cold and whispering cell, and he has a message for her. Supernatural and claustrophobic horrors mix with emotional devastation and guilt in this gripping story about two people being held in two separate prisons.

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

It's like The Conjuring if you threw in a lot of small-town politics and modern technology. Hex is the story of a witch who hasn't finished her work, the people she hurts, and the fight that ensues when a group of teenagers try to find out the truth. ) If not for curious and foolish kids, the horror genre would mostly be about adults worrying about the value of their homes, right? There is a lockdown in place in Black Spring because the curse of a muzzled witch is spreading. When some local teenagers go viral with the hauntings, the town goes into a medieval panic and everyone runs for their lives! It's dark, gothic, and completely unique. In Europe, the creepiness is at its most cloying.

The Passage by Justin Cronin

As a group, you can talk about zombies at a bar. But it's more than that. If you want to know what happened to the world when it was turned into a gruesome predator-prey world, this is it. It's a post-apocalyptic thrill-ride that starts with a military experiment and grows into an epic, impossibly dangerous quest to defeat insurmountable death and corrupted humanity. It's a must-read for people who think the viral apocalypse genre doesn't go far enough. Cronin's book is masterfully written, inventive, and huge in scope.

 

Bedfellow by Jeremy C. Shipp

Shipp may not be a well-known author, but his weird, psychological horrors deserve to be read by a lot of people. Bedfellow is a story about a family that is taken in by a strange and creepy person who changes their minds and uses them to feed its changing and terrifying hungers. Bedfellow is the only story about a haunted house or a home invasion that is as creative and scary as it is. What else should we say? This is about a shapeshifting invader called Marvin who takes over people's minds and feeds off their psyches.

I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindquist

In the world of horror, Lindquist is one of the best-known people. Let the Right One In was not only one of the best horror novels ever written, but it was also a slap in the face to Edward Cullen and his friends. Lindquist is just as good at finding new emotions as he is at evoking decay and gore. In this one, he lessens the nausea of the undead and makes it more scary and creepy. It's a more philosophical look at dread. Four families are stuck in a huge field of grass and sky, being watched by the creatures that live on the edges and wracked by eerie music. There was heartbreak, mind-f*cks, and almost-cosmic creepiness. Oh, that's so weird.

The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman

People who drive on the open road are always in for a shock. Because crashes are so terrifying, long stretches of driving alone are scary, and motorists are completely alone, long stretches of travel are forbidding. vampires? Yes, it's a vampire story that also has muscle cars, hard-fought revenge, and heartbreaking loss. It has a lot of action, a lot of blood, and some really bad characters. It's true that The Suicide Motor Club has a lot of complicated emotions and top-notch writing, but don't let that fool you. Visceral, scary, and hard-hitting. I think there's a Tarantino comparison that should be made in this case.

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

Fever Dream is a rare example of a well-done nightmare. It is suffocating, strange, surreal, and gloriously unsettling. You know when you have a really bad dream and you can't even describe it to the people who are around you? She doesn't have this problem, so this isn't one of them. A young woman is dying in a hospital, and the story is told through unrestrained dialogue. The premise is simple: He stands by her side. In between the two, a haunting story of lost souls and tattered minds, desperate people, and poison grows. They are not related, but the story grows between them. It's very different from anything you've read before, and so much of it is hard to describe. But you can be sure that it is intoxicatingly unique, hallucinogenic, and thoroughly engrossing.

A Dark Matter by Peter Straub

He's as good as Stephen King. His writing is always well-written and ambitious. A Dark Matter is a complex and thought-provoking book that will split people up. It's so important to the genre and to American literature as a whole that you can't ignore it. Back when they were in high school, four friends each ran into an occult leader who was both charismatic and clever. At least at first. A gruesome and lethal ritual is done in an open field. They try to figure out what happened and how much it meant to them years later, but they accidentally start the evil that was born all those years ago. It's scary, weird, technical, and darkly mysterious. It's important for people who like horror movies to understand the idea of terror and how it can hurt your body when you get a jump scare.


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