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I. Paranormal – Haunted Houses – Ghosts – Creatures & Cryptids II. Supernatural – Demons & Possession – The Occult & Witchcraft – Cosmic Horror III. Natural Order – Apocalyptic, Dystopian, & Sci-Fi – Eco Horror |
IV. Human Monsters – Coming-of-Age – Grief, Loss & Death – Cults – Slashers & Killers – Body Horror – Creepy Kids – Crime & Investigation V. Short Story Collections |
VI. Author Spotlight – Christopher Buehlman – Tananarive Due – V. Castro – Grady Hendrix – Ania Ahlborn – Josh Malerman – Paul Tremblay – Adam Nevill – Stephen Graham Jones – Alma Katsu |
VII. Miscellaneous – Holiday “Spirit” – Queens of Horror – Illustrated Horror – Epic Apocalypse Books – Other Books Mentioned |
I. Paranormal
Haunted Houses
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | The Grip of It | Jac Jemc | Physical | None |
| ☐ | The Book of Accidents | Chuck Wendig | No | None |
| ☐ | Just Like Home | Sarah Gailey | eARC | None |
| ☐ | Kill Creek | Scott Thomas | No | None |
| ☐ | The Ancestor | Danielle Trussoni | No | None |
| ☐ | Switch House | Tim Meyer | No | None |
Ghosts
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Heart-Shaped Box | Joe Hill | No | None |
| ☐ | White Horse | Erika T. Wurth | No | None |
| ☐ | When the Reckoning Comes | LaTanya McQueen | No | None |
| ☐ | The Hacienda | Isabel Canas | No | None |
Creatures & Cryptids
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Ghoul | Brian Keene | No | None |
| ☐ | In the Valley of the Sun | Andy Davidson | No | None |
| ☐ | The Children on The Hill | Jennifer McMahon | No | None |
| ☐ | Hearts Strange and Dreadful | Tim McGregor | No | None |
| ☐ | The Return | Rachel Harrison | No | None |
II. Supernatural
Demons & Possession
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Boys in the Valley | Philip Fracassi | Physical | None |
| ☐ | The Demonologist | Andrew Pyper | No | None |
| ☐ | The Wicked | James Newman | No | None |
| ☐ | Come Closer | Sara Gran | Physical | None |
The Occult & Witchcraft
| Read? | Title | Author | Read? | Rating | ☑ | The Year of the Witching | Alexis Henderson | Read | 4.5 |
| ☐ | Hex | Thomas Olde Heuvelt | No | None |
| ☐ | The Nightmare Girl | Jonathan Janz | No | None |
Cosmic Horror
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | The Ballad of Black Tom | Victor LaValle | No | None |
| ☐ | The Worm and His Kings | Hailey Piper | Physical | None |
| ☐ | The Fisherman | John Langan | No | None |
| ☐ | A Lush and Seething Hell | John Hornor Jacobs | No | None |
| ☐ | Walk the Darkness Down | John Boden | No | None |
III. Natural Order
Apocalyptic, Dystopian & Sci-Fi
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Zone One | Colson Whitehead | No | None |
| ☑ | Tender is the Flesh | Augustina Bazterrica | Read | 5 |
| ☐ | Ring Shout | P. Djeli Clark | Physical | None |
| ☐ | The Fearing: The Definitive Edition | John F. D. Taff | No | None |
| ☐ | The Silence | Tim Lebbon | No | None |
| ☐ | The Loop | Jeremy Robert Johnson | No | None |
| ☐ | Red Hands | Christopher Golden | No | None |
Eco Horror
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | We Need to Do Something | Max Booth III | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Stranded | Bracken MacLeod | No | None |
| ☐ | The Deep | Nick Cutter | No | None |
| ☐ | The Ruins | Scott Smith | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | Ebook | None |
IV. Human Monsters
Coming-of-Age
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Knock Knock | S. P. Miskowski | No | None |
| ☐ | The Bottoms | Joe R. Lansdale | No | None |
| ☐ | December Park | Ronald Malfi | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Penpal | Dathan Auerbach | No | None |
| ☐ | Of Foster Homes and Flies | Chad Lutzke | No | None |
| ☑ | The Ghost Tree | Christina Henry | Read | 3.5 |
| ☐ | The Deer Kings | Wendy Wagner | No | None |
| ☐ | The Bone Weaver’s Orchard | Sarah Read | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Listener | Robert McCammon | No | None |
Grief, Loss & Death
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☑ | Red | Jack Ketchum | Read | 5 |
| ☐ | I’m Thinking of Ending Things | Iain Reid | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Red X | David Demchuk | No | None |
| ☐ | Rites of Extinction | Matt Serafini | No | None |
| ☐ | Full Immersion | Gemma Amor | No | None |
| ☐ | The Last Days of Jack Sparks | John Boden | No | None |
Cults
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Beneath | Kristi DeMeester | No | None |
| ☐ | Revelator | Daryl Gregory | No | None |
| ☐ | The Twisted Ones | T. Kingfisher | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Devil’s Creek | Todd Keisling | eARC | None |
| ☐ | Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Physical | None |
| ☐ | The Library at Mount Char | Scott Hawkins | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Little Eve | Catriona Ward | eARC | None |
Slashers & Serial Killers
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Grind Your Bones to Dust | Nicholas Day | No | None |
| ☐ | Kin | Kealan Patrick Burke | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | True Crime | Samantha Kolesnik | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Camp Slaughter | Sergio Gomez | No | None |
| ☑ | Goth | Otsuichi | Read | 5 |
| ☐ | Gone to See the River Man | Kristopher Triana | Ebook, Physical | None |
Body Horror
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | A Place for Sinners | Aaron Dries | Physical | None |
| ☑ | Transmuted | Eve Harms | Read | 4 |
| ☐ | Last Days | Brian Evenson | Physical | None |
| ☐ | The Wingspan of Severed Hands | Joe Koch | Ebook | None |
Creepy Kids
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | The Laws of the Skies | Gregoire Courtois | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Baby Teeth | Zoje Stage | eARC | None |
| ☐ | Suffer the Children | Craig DiLouie | Physical | None |
Crime & Investigation
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Number One Fan | Meg Elison | No | None |
| ☐ | Good Neighbors | Sarah Langan | No | None |
| ☐ | Coyote Songs | Gabino Iglesias | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Children of Chicago | Cynthia Pelayo | No | None |
| ☐ | Broken Monsters | Lauren Beukes | eARC | None |
V. Short Story Collections
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | The Beautiful Things That Awaits Us All | Laird Barron | No | None |
| ☑ | Things We Lost in the Fire | Mariana Enriquez | Read | 4.5 |
| ☐ | North American Lake Monsters | Nathan Ballingrud | No | None |
| ☐ | Falling in Love with Hominids | Nalo Hopkinson | No | None |
| ☐ | Greener Pastures | Michael Wehunt | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Ghost Sequences | A. C. Wise | No | None |
| ☐ | We Are Here to Hurt Each Other | Paula D. Ashe | Ebook | None |
| ☑ | Shiver | Junji Ito | Read | 5 |
| ☑ | The Trees Grew Because I Bled There | Eric LaRocca | Read | 5 |
| ☐ | Tribal Screams | Owl Goingback | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Cry Your Way Home | Damien Angelica Walters | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | She Said Destroy | Nadia Bulklin | No | None |
VI. Author Spotlight
| Read? | Author | # Read | All | Recommended? | ☐ | Christopher Beuhlman | 0 | ☐ | Unknown |
| ☐ | Tananarive Due | 0 | ☐ | Unknown |
| ☑ | V. Castro | 2 | ☐ | Yes |
| ☑ | Grady Hendrix | 2 | ☐ | Yes |
| ☐ | Ania Ahlborn | 0 | ☐ | Unknown |
| ☑ | Josh Malerman | 3 | ☐ | Yes |
| ☐ | Paul Tremblay | 0 | ☐ | Unknown |
| ☐ | Adam Nevill | 0 | ☐ | Unknown |
| ☑ | Stephen Graham Jones | 1 | ☐ | Unknown |
| ☐ | Alma Katsu | No | ☐ | Unknown |
Christopher Buehlman
| Read? | Title | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Between Two Fires | Physical | None |
| ☐ | The Lesser Dead | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Those Across the River | No | None |
| ☐ | The Suicide Motor Club | No | None |
| ☐ | The Necromancer’s House | No | None |
| ☐ | The Black Tongue Thief | No | None |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☑ | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | Read | 5 |
| ☐ | Last Days | Adam Nevill | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | No | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
Tananarive Due
| Read? | Title | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Ghost Summer | No | None |
| ☐ | The Good House | No | None |
| ☐ | The Between | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | My Soul to Keep | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Living Blood | No | None |
| ☐ | Blood Colony | No | None |
| ☐ | My Soul to Take | No | None |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Beloved | Toni Morrison | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | Ebook | None |
| ☑ | The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones | Read | 4.5 |
My Thoughts: Holy cow does Tananarive Due have impeccable taste.
V. Castro
| Read? | Title | Rating | ☑ | Hairspray and Switchblades | 4 stars |
| ☑ | Goddess of Filth | 5 stars |
| ☐ | Queen of the Cicadas | None |
| ☐ | Mestiza Blood | None |
| ☐ | The Haunting of Alejandra | None |
| ☐ | Aliens: Vasquez | None |
My Thoughts: After reading three books, I can already tell that V. Castro is a new favorite author. She was already on my radar, but Sadie’s recommendations sold me on finally picking Castro’s books up and I am so thankful! Huge success!
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Rating | ☐ | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Alvin Schwartz | None |
| ☐ | Love in Vein | Poppy Z. Brite | None |
| ☑ | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
Grady Hendrix
| Read? | Title | Rating | ☐ | My Best Friend’s Exorcism | None |
| ☐ | We Sold Our Souls | None |
| ☑ | Paperbacks from Hell | 5 stars |
| ☐ | The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires | None |
| ☐ | How to Sell a Haunted House | None |
| ☐ | The Final Girl Support Group | None |
| ☑ | Horrorstor | 4 stars |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Rating | ☐ | The Auctioneer | Joan Samson | None |
| ☐ | When Darkness Loves Us | Elizabeth Engstram | None |
| ☐ | The Tribe | Bari Wood | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
Ania Ahlborn
| Read? | Title | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Brother | No | None |
| ☐ | The Devil Crept In | No | None |
| ☐ | Seed | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Bird Eater | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Within These Walls | No | None |
| ☐ | Dark Across the Bay | No | None |
| ☐ | Apart in the Dark | No | None |
| ☐ | If You See Her | No | None |
| ☐ | The Neighbors | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Shuddering | Ebook | None |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Misery | Stephen King | No | None |
| ☐ | Rosemary’s Baby | Ira Levin | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Physical | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
Josh Malerman
| Read? | Title | Acquired | Rating | ☑ | Bird Box | Read | 3.5 |
| ☐ | Pearl | No | None |
| ☐ | Malorie | No | None |
| ☑ | A House at the Bottom of a Lake | Read | 4 |
| ☐ | Unbury Carol | No | None |
| ☐ | Inspection | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Mad Black Wheel | No | None |
| ☑ | Goblin | Read | 2.5 |
| ☐ | Daphne | eARC | None |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Strangers on a Train | Patricia Highsmith | No | None |
| ☐ | Perfume | Patrick Suskind | No | None |
| ☐ | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | No | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
Paul Tremblay
| Read? | Title | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | A Head Full of Ghosts | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Pallbearer’s Club | No | None |
| ☐ | Devil’s Rock | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Growing Things | No | None |
| ☐ | The Cabin at the End of the World | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Survivor Song | No | None |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☑ | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | Read | 5 |
| ☐ | Books of Blood Vol. 1 | Clive Barker | No | None |
| ☐ | House of Leaves | Mark Danielewski | No | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
Adam Nevill
| Read? | Title | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | The Ritual | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Last Days | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Reddening | No | None |
| ☐ | Cunning Folk | No | None |
| ☐ | Apartment 16 | No | None |
| ☐ | No One Gets Out Alive | No | None |
| ☐ | House of Small Shadows | No | None |
| ☐ | Wyrd and Other Derelilctions | No | None |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Ghost Stories of an Antiquity | M R James | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Dagon and Other Macabre Tales | H. P. Lovecraft | No | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
Stephen Graham Jones
| Read? | Title | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Mapping the Interior | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Mongrels | No | None |
| ☐ | Night of the Mannequins | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | My Heart is a Chainsaw | eARC | None |
| ☐ | Don’t Fear the Reaper | No | None |
| ☑ | The Only Good Indians | Read | 4.5 |
| ☐ | The Last Final Girl | No | None |
| ☐ | Attack of the 50 Foot Indian | No | None |
| ☐ | The Babysitter Lives | No | None |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | It | Stephen King | Physical | None |
| ☐ | Experimental Film | Gemma Files | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Wolfen | Whitley Strieber | No | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
Alma Katsu
| Read? | Title | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | The Hunger | No | None |
| ☐ | The Deep | No | None |
| ☐ | The Fervor | No | None |
| ☐ | The Wehrwolf | No | None |
| ☐ | Red Widow | No | None |
| ☐ | The Taker Series | No | None |
Author’s Recommendations
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | No | None |
| ☑ | The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones | Read | 4.5 |
| ☐ | The Last House on Needless Street | Catriona Ward | No | None |
My Thoughts: INSERT
VII. Miscellaneous
Holilday “Spirit”
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Valancourt Victorian Ghost Stories Volume 1 | Valancourt | No | None |
| ☐ | Valancourt Victorian Ghost Stories Volume 2 | Valancourt | No | None |
| ☐ | Valancourt Victorian Ghost Stories Volume 3 | Valancourt | No | None |
| ☐ | Valancourt Victorian Ghost Stories Volume 4 | Valancourt | No | None |
| ☐ | Valancourt Victorian Ghost Stories Volume 5 | Valancourt | No | None |
| ☐ | The Shrieking Skull & Other Victorian Ghost Stories | James Skipp Borlase | No | None |
| ☐ | Hark! The Herald Angels Scream Anthology | Christopher Golden | No | None |
| ☐ | Seasons Creepings | Ronald Kelly | No | None |
| ☐ | NOS4A2 | Joe Hill | Physical, Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Wraith | Joe Hill | No | None |
| ☐ | Krampus: The Yule Lord | Gerald Brom | No | None |
| ☐ | Secret Santa | Andrew Shaffer | No | None |
| ☑ | The Visitor | Sergio Gomez | Read | 1.5 |
| ☐ | Dead of Winter | Kealan Patrick Burke | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | Halldark Holidays | Gabino Iglesias | No | None |
| ☐ | Where the Dead Go to Die | Mark Allan Gunnells & Aaron Dries | No | None |
Queens of Horror
| Read? | Author | Queen of… | # Read | Recommended? | ☐ | Mary Sangiovanni | 0 | 0 | Unknown |
| ☑ | Nuzo Onoh | African Horror | 1 | Yes |
| ☐ | Gemma Files | 0 | 0 | Unknown |
| ☐ | Beverley Lee | 0 | 0 | Unknown |
| ☐ | Linda Addison | 0 | 0 | Unknown |
| ☐ | Ellen Datlow | 0 | 0 | Unknown |
Illustrated Horror
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Slewfoot | Brom | eARC | None |
| ☐ | Cruel Works of Nature: 1.1 Illustrated Horror Novellas | Gemma Amor | No | None |
| ☐ | Coraline | Neil Gaiman | Physical, Audiobook | None |
| ☐ | The Gunslinger | Stephen King | No | None |
| ☐ | The Drawing of the Three | Stephen King | No | None |
| ☐ | The Waste Lands | Stephen King | No | None |
| ☐ | Wizard and Glass | Stephen King | No | None |
| ☐ | Wolves of the Calla | Stephen King | No | None |
| ☐ | Song of Susannah | Stephen King | None | None |
| ☐ | The Dark Tower | Stephen King | Physical | None |
| ☑ | Through the Woods | Emily Carroll | Read | 5 |
| ☐ | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Alvin Schwartz | No | None |
| ☐ | More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Alvin Schwartz | No | None |
| ☐ | More Tales to Chill Your Bones | Alvin Schwartz | No | None |
| ☐ | The Thief of Always: A Fable | Clive Barker | No | None |
| ☐ | The Halloween Tree | Ray Bradbury | No | None |
Epic Apocalypse Books
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Wanderers & Wayward | Chuck Wendig | No | None |
| ☐ | Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | No | None |
| ☐ | Survival Song | Paul Tremblay | No | None |
| ☐ | Swan Song | Robert McCammon | Ebook | None |
| ☐ | The Fireman | Joe Hill | No | None |
| ☑ | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Read | 2.5 |
| ☐ | The Passage | Justin Cronin | No | None |
| ☐ | Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler | eARC | None |
Other Books Mentioned
| Read? | Title | Author | Acquired | Rating | ☐ | Clown in a Cornfield | Adam Cesare | No | None |
| ☐ | Human Monsters | Sadie Hartmann | No | None |