Best Modern Horror Novels - May 2024

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

• ASIN: B000SEGHT6
• ASIN: B000SEGHT6
• Manufacturer: The Dial Press

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

• ASIN: B0054LJGWS
• ASIN: B0054LJGWS
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Deliverance (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

• ASIN: B001LOEG1S
• ASIN: B001LOEG1S
• Manufacturer: Delta

Kindred

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more ard... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0807083690
• UPC: 046442083690
• ASIN: 0807083690
• ISBN: 0807083690
• Brand: Butler, Octavia E.
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Animal Farm and 1984

• ASIN: B003ZX868W
• ASIN: B003ZX868W
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy, Book 1)

• ASIN: B004DI7HZ6
• ASIN: B004DI7HZ6
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Shutter Island

• ASIN: B000JMKNV0
• ASIN: B000JMKNV0
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Main Street (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

• ASIN: B000FC1J8K
• ASIN: B000FC1J8K
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the tre... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0449213943
• ASIN: 0449213943
• ISBN: 9780449213940
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Stand

• ASIN: B001C4NXKM
• ASIN: B001C4NXKM
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Sharp Objects

AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMSFROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307341550
• ASIN: 0307341550
• ISBN: 0307341550
• Brand: Gillian Flynn
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Neverwhere: A Novel

• ASIN: B000FC130E
• ASIN: B000FC130E
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

The Paris Architect: A Novel

The New York Times bestseller"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." --Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming Ken Follett." (Booklist)In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money - and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the m... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00DJBXASQ
• ASIN: B00DJBXASQ
• Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark

Beloved

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400033411
• ASIN: 1400033411
• ISBN: 1400033411
• Brand: Morrison, Toni
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Rotters' Club (Vintage Contemporaries)

• ASIN: B000XUAD5Y
• ASIN: B000XUAD5Y
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Raping of Ava DeSantis: A Horror Novel

THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT. Winner of 4 'Best Novel' Awards including 2015 Grand Prize Winner of Best Novel of the Year and Best Thriller of the Year. STORY: A working class

• UPC: 53442489
• Rating: 3.667

Father of Lies : A Supernatural Horror Novel

A darkly disturbing occult horror novel, set in a bleak asylum on the moors of northern

• UPC: 53428961

Plague of the Manitou : A 'manitou' Horror Novel

Virus expert Anna Grey wonders if she's going mad when she hears a corpse whisper: 'Get it out of me.' There is no such thing as demons, she tells herself. But cynical fortune-teller Harry Erskine

• UPC: 55421382
• Rating: 5.0

The Haunting of Cabin Green : A Modern Gothic Horror Novel

One of PopSugar's Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.One of Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018.One of Ranker's 2018's Scariest Horror Books.One of BoredPanda's 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.#1 Amazon Best-Seller in

• UPC: 210623606

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 - eBook

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers.As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most

• UPC: 292533892
• Rating: 3.0

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 - eBook

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers.As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most

• UPC: 105547658
• Rating: 4.0

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 2003 - eBook

The finest exponents of horror fiction writing today, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Basil Cooper, Glen Hirshberg, Jay Russell, feature in the world's

• UPC: 721899426
• Rating: 4.0

Best Horror from Fantasy Tales - eBook

This illustrated collection includes stories by the world's leading masters of the macabre, including Clibe Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber and Dennis

• UPC: 307299235

What the Hell Did I Just Read : A Novel of Cosmic Horror

New York Times bestselling author David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic horror, set in the world of John Dies at the

• UPC: 909339172
• Rating: 4.4

Best New Horror - eBook

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything

• UPC: 833937641
• Rating: 3.0