Best Recent Horror Novels - April 2024

The Institute: A Novel

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It—publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters.In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1982110562
• ASIN: 1982110562
• ISBN: 1982110562
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Outsider: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—soon to be an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn! An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a qu... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078M5G7XH
• ASIN: B078M5G7XH
• Manufacturer: Scribner

11/22/63: A Novel

• ASIN: B005K0HDGE
• ASIN: B005K0HDGE
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

• ASIN: B002LHRLNE
• ASIN: B002LHRLNE
• Manufacturer: Center Street

Mr. Mercedes: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy)

Now an AT&T Audience Original Series WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL #1 New York Times bestseller! In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. “Mr. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses” (The Washington Post).In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476754470
• ASIN: 1476754470
• ISBN: 9781476754475
• Brand: Stephen King
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Elevation

• ASIN: 1982102314
• ASIN: 1982102314
• ISBN: 1982102314
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Sun Dog

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, now available for the first time as a standalone publication.The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It’s coming for you. Kevin Delavan wants only one thing for his fifteenth birthday: a Polaroid Sun 660. There’s something wrong with his gift, though. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1982115424
• ASIN: 1982115424
• ISBN: 1982115424
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, whe... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06XWDGVT1
• ASIN: B06XWDGVT1
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Grimm: Nate Temple Series Book 3

Assassination contracts don’t make good wedding proposals.Sharing a beer with Death—one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—really put a few things into perspective for this foul-mouthed, billionaire wizard. Like finally getting the stones to propose to his girlfriend.But the Brothers Grimm—legendary supernatural assassins—have escaped their prison, and the number one thing they want after their centuries-long incarceration is Nate Temple’s head. With the entire wedding party also on their hit-list and the Temple family fortune in jeopardy, Nate realizes they can’t run and the... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01L1CM1T8
• ASIN: B01L1CM1T8
• Manufacturer: Argento Publishing, LLC

The Eyes of the Dragon: A Novel

• ASIN: B018ER7KNK
• ASIN: B018ER7KNK
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

My Ex-Life: A Novel

National BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR, Shelf Awareness“I didn't know how much I needed a laugh until I began reading Stephen McCauley's new novel, My Ex-Life. This is the kind of witty, sparkling, sharp novel for which the verb ‘chortle’ was invented.” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air“McCauley fits neatly alongside Tom Perrotta and Maria Semple in the category of ‘Novelists You’d Most Like to Drive Across the Country With.’” —The New York Times Book ReviewDavid Hedges’s life is coming apart at the seams. His job helping San Francisco rich kids get into the colleges ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B076H7C445
• ASIN: B076H7C445
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

The Body

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me—now available for the first time as a stand-alone publication.It’s 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1982103531
• ASIN: 1982103531
• ISBN: 1982103531
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Blaze: A Novel

Master storyteller Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) presents this gripping and remarkable New York Times bestselling crime novel about a damaged young man who embarks on an ill-advised kidnapping plot—a work as taut and riveting as anything he has ever written.Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 (“cancer of the pseudonym”), but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for decades—an unforgettable crime st... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501195913
• ASIN: 1501195913
• ISBN: 1501195913
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Blood Standard (An Isaiah Coleridge Novel Book 1)

A novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw, a classic noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. MacdonaldIsaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when he forcibly ends the money-making scheme of a made man, he gets in the kind of trouble that can lead to a bullet behind the ear. Saved by the grace of his boss and exiled to upstate New York, Isaiah begins a new life, a quiet life without gunshots or explosions. Except a teenage girl disappears, and Isaiah isn't one to le... [Read More]

• ASIN: B075C3BGD5
• ASIN: B075C3BGD5
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Doctor Sleep: A Novel

• ASIN: 1476727651
• ASIN: 1476727651
• ISBN: 1476727651
• Brand: Scribner Book Company
• Manufacturer: Scribner

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

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

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
• Rating: 4.0

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

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

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

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine

"An elderly man aggressively defends his private domain against all comers--including his daughter; a policeman investigates an impossible horror show of a crime; a father witnesses one of the worst things a parent can imagine;

• UPC: 55696508
• Rating: 4.0