Horror is a genre that extends throughout all media as well as over multiple genres.  This list will include audiobooks not graphic novels.

(1) Monster

• Written by Christopher Pike
• Release Date: 1992

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.

(2) City of the Dead (Resident Evil 3)

• Written by S. D. Perry
• Release Date: 1999

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.

(3) Beware, the Snowman (Goosebumps 51)

• Written by R. L. Stine
• Release Date: 1997

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. . . .

(4) Vampyrrich

• Written by Simon Clark
• Release Date: 1998

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.

(5) Relic (Agent Pendergast 1)

• Written by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
• Release Date: 1995

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.

(6) Vampires

• Written by John Steakley
• Release Date: 1990

The novel concerns a company called Vampire$, Inc. which treats vampire-hunting as a commercial enterprise, funded by large payments from the vampires’ potential victims and secretly supported from the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church.

(7) The Man in the Black Suit

• Written by Stephen King
• Release Date: 1994

A nine-year-old boy named Gary has a terrible encounter with a strange man wearing a black suit while fishing in the woods.

(8) The Umbrella Conspiracy (Resident Evil 1)

• Written by S. D. Perry
• Release Date: 1998

Raccoon City: a remote mountain community suddenly besieged by a rash of grisly murders. At the epicenter, a dark secluded mansion belonging to the mysterious Umbrella Corporation. Deployed to investigate the strange goings-on is the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.) but what unfolds as the team penetrate the mansion’s long-locked doors is terror beyond their worst nightmares.

(9) Reliquary (Agent Pendergast 2)

• Written by: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
• Release Date: 1997

Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D’Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare…

(10) The Beast from the East (Goosebumps 43)

• Written by R. L. Stine
• Release Date: 1997

Getting lost in the woods with her identical twin brothers, Ginger Wald wonders why their portion of the woods contains such bizarre flora and fauna, until a group of furry blue monsters invites them to play a deadly game.

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