Horror is a genre that extends throughout all media as well as over multiple genres. This list will also include audiobooks and graphic novels.
(1) Fear
A malevolent force has descended upon the small town of Quarry, Massachusetts, that is turning its citizens into crazed killers. The fate of the town (and the world) falls upon a widow and a young boy with psychic powers.
Author: R. Patrick Gates
(2) Monster
After her best friend, Mary Carlson, is arrested for gunning down two people at a party, Angela Warner investigates the jailed woman’s claims that her victims were actually monsters. When Mary probes deeper she discovers a horror so unimaginable she wonders if she should have let Mary keep on killing.
Author: Christopher Pike
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(3) City of the Dead (Resident Evil #3)
Leon Kennedy, a rookie cop on a new assignment, and Claire Redfield, sister of the still-missing S.T.A.R.S. member Chris, arrive at Raccoon City to discover a necropolis. A botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has resulted in a horrifying viral outbreak, transforming the city’s population into the living dead. And all of them are hungry.
Author: S. D. Perry
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(4) 100 Days in Deadland (Deadland Saga #1)
In one day, Cash witnesses her world succumb to a pestilence that decimated the living, replacing them with ravenous monsters with an insatiable hunger for the living. In the midst of all the chaos she joins up with an Army veteran named Clutch and the two fight to survive in the zombie apocalypse, both from the undead and the living.
Author: Rachel Aukes
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(5) Beware, the Snowman (Goosebumps #51)
Jaclyn used to live with her aunt Greta in Chicago. But not anymore. They’ve moved to a place called Sherpia. It’s a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Jaclyn can’t believe she’s stuck out in Nowheresville. No movie theaters. No malls. No nothing. Plus, there’s something really odd about the village. At night there are strange howling noises. And in front of every house there’s a snowman. A creepy snowman with a red scarf. A deep scar on his face. And a really evil smile. . . .
Author: R. L. Stine
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(6) Vampyrrich
In a small, isolated town, people are affected by a condition that leaves them in a coma unless they consume blood. Then a terminally ill man plans an act of vengeance: to set the dead against the living, so that the whole world might experience the misery the townspeople have endured for years.
Author: Simon Clark
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(7) Ama
Death is not the end for Jason Drake. Because of the murder he committed in life, hell awaits him. But Jason is not concerned about his own soul, he wants a chance to save his daughter, and give her back the life that was taken away too soon. A demon offers him this chance, if he plays her simple game.
Author: Daniel MacKillican
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(8) Deadland Harvest (Deadland Saga #2)
It has been one hundred days since the zombies claimed the world. Cash, along with forty-two survivors, have found safety in the secluded and well-guarded Fox National Park. The leaves are changing colors, a beautiful, brutal reminder that winter is coming. As the survivors prepare for freezing months without electricity and not enough food, they learn of massive zombie herds several hundred miles north…and headed their way.
Author: Rachel Aukes
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(9) The Umbrella Conspiracy (Resident Evil #1)
At the edge of Raccoon City, in its surrounding forest, there are reports of people being killed and eaten. A paramilitary response team called STARS is deployed to investigate However, the group are stranded and forced to take refuge in an isolated mansion where they encounter monstrous creatures – the result of experiments gone wrong.
Author: S. D. Perry
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(10) Salem’s Lot
The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem’s Lot in Maine, where he had lived from the age of five through nine, only to discover that the residents are becoming vampires.
Author: Stephen King
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The plot follows NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, and graduate student Dr. Margo Green who hunt a mythical creature that is killing people in a New York City’s American Museum of Natural History.
Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
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(12) The Blob Who Ate Everyone (Goosebumps #55)
A famous horror writer. That’s what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He’s writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink slimy creature who eats up an entire town! Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned-down antiques store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there’s something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous.
Author: R. L. Stine
(13) The Fall (The Strain Trilogy #2)
The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading across the country and soon, the world. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Center for Disease Control’s team—leads a small band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master’s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for total control. Caught between these warring forces, humans—powerless and vulnerable—are no longer the consumers, but the consumed.
Author: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
(14) The Marhawa Desire (Resident Evil Vol.1-5)
The Marhawa Desire is set in Singapore and Tropical Forest of Asia during BSAA advisor Doug Wright‘s investigation of a viral outbreak at the prestigious Marhawa School.
Author: Naoki Serizawa
(15) Nemesis (Resident Evil #5)
Hoping to hide evidence of their unethical and immoral genetic experiments, the Umbrella Corporation unleashes mercenary teams and an updated version of its Tyrant-class killing machines – a lethal creature code-named Nemesis – on Raccoon City.
Author: S. D. Perry
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(16) The Mist
The plot revolves around members of the small town of who, after a severe thunderstorm causes the power to go out the night before, meet in a supermarket to pick up supplies. While they struggle to survive an unnatural mist which envelops the town and conceals vicious monsters as extreme tensions rise among the survivors.
Author: Stephen King
(17) Deadland Rising (Deadland Saga #3)
Winter has arrived. It has been nearly one year since the zombie hordes claimed the world. As the plague eats away at its victims’ bodies, the Fox survivors search for a safe place to rebuild what they have lost. But a dangerous new threat has risen, hunting them from every direction. To survive, Cash, Clutch, and their small band of refugees must put their faith in a group of strangers and a new government with radical plans.
Author: Rachel Aukes
(18) The Strain (The Strain Trilogy #1)
A plane lands on a tarmac with revealing all but four people dead. A Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian enlist the aid of the head of the CDC named Ephram Goodweather who discovers a vampiric virus that has infected the passengers and begins spilling out on the streets of New York City.
Author: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
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(19) Breeds (Breeds #1)
In a near deserted coastal village, odd things are happening. Strangers are asking questions about the town’s recluse. A local hunter discovers naked footprints in the snow. The stray dog population has ceased to exist. And with winter’s most powerful weapon bearing down, things are about to become much, much worse.
Author: Keith C. Blackmore
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(20) Stinger
Inferno is a town in trouble, driven to the brink by racial tension, gang violence, and a collapsing economy. But things can always get worse, and they do so with astonishing speed when an unidentified spacecraft crash lands in the desert outside of town, followed by a second craft bearing the alien being who will soon be known as Stinger. Stinger is a kind of interstellar hunter on a mission he intends to complete, whatever the cost. He brings with him an endless array of technological marvels and an infinite capacity for destruction that threaten the existence of Inferno
Author: Robert R. McCammon
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