From classics like The Call of Cthulhu to recent hits like Bird Box, I knew these horror novels were masterpieces just by reading the first 10 pages.

It may sound contradictive but some of the best horror books have the coziest atmospheres with low stakes to enjoy spooky thrills without all the gore ...

Horror book classics like The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and Pet Sematary by Stephen King are scarier than any ...

Horror books, just like movies, are like no other genre. They allow the reader to enter a terrifying world that makes our hair stand up on end and keeps us up at night without ever truly being in harm ...

We’ve come to the end of another year and another 12 months of publishing that proved horror fiction’s vastness, versatility, and sheer visceral power. In 2024 we saw new novels from some of the ...

The best new books you can read this Halloween are, surprisingly, old books. Horror novels date all the way back to Horace Walpole’s “Castle of Otranto” (1764), but in the 20th century, an avalanche ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Michaela Granger, owner of horror-themed bookshop Midslumber Media in Portland, ...

Though Fall is, naturally, still the prime release time for horror books, summer continues to gain steam as many of the genre’s biggest names drop new novels and collections while the sun is bright ...