Category: Horror
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Night Rituals by Gary Paulsen
I’m a sucker for vintage thriller and suspense novels like Night Rituals, which came out in 1989. The story begins when a janitor at the Denver airport finds a severed boob in an abandoned carry-on bag. Ed “Push” Tincker, the homicide detective assigned to the case, soon learns that a…
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Addison House by Clare McNally
Old-school horror novels like Addison House take me back to my middle school days, when I walked to the library after school and checked out stacks of horror novels by John Saul, Dean Koontz, and any others I could get my hands on. My parents never supervised my reading. I…
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Dearest by Peter Loughran
I found Dearest by Peter Loughran literally by accident at my local bookstore—it slipped out and fell on the floor while browsing horror novels by Bentley Little. Its front cover is creepy and its back cover blurb convinced me to give it a try. The book’s synopsis reads: “He was…
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Cries of the Children by Clare McNally
Cries of the Children is vintage horror at its finest. I was a big fan of Clare McNally in the early 90s and read everything she had out back then. This story focuses on three young children who are confused, abandoned, and alone in various parts of the country. There’s…
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Castaways by Brian Keene
Castaways is basically a horrifying version of the show Survivor. In Castaways, a group of reality show contestants are competing against one another to be the last person standing on a small island. In the style of Survivor, contestants vote for the person they want banished from the island. The…
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Latter-Day of the Dead by Kevin Krohn
Latter-Day of the Dead—I don’t remember how this book came to be in my possession, but I do like horror, and I like zombies, too. On a calm night, a retarded man named Benjamin crosses the Utah border into Arizona to visit a strip club. Benjamin is from an isolated,…
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The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Troupe focuses on George Carole, a talented, 16-year-old pianist. His mother died at childbirth and now he’s searching for the father he’s never met. George thinks his dad is the infamous vaudeville troupe leader Heironomo Silenus, so he joins the vaudeville troupe with hopes of getting one step closer…
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This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
This is Not a Test is the 4th book by novelist Courtney Summers. In the near future, Sloane Price is ready to die. Her mom already died, her older sister Lily abandoned her, and her father is an abusive, violent monster. Sloane is nearly relieved when a zombie apocalypse threatens…
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The Freakshow by Bryan Smith
The Freakshow is a splatterpunk horror novel. It has lots of graphic and explicit violence, horror, and porn. In the small town of Pleasant Hills, Tennessee, a “freakshow” carnival has arrived to entertain bored locals who generally sit around cleaning their rifles. But the REAL reason the carnival is there…