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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 eARC 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

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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

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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

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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

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The Occult & Witchcraft

Read? Title Author Acquired Rating
The Year of the Witching Alexis Henderson Read 5
Hex Thomas Olde Heuvelt No None
The Nightmare Girl Jonathan Janz No None

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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

0 / 5

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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

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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

0 / 5

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

1 / 4


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

0 / 3


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

0 / 5

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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

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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

4 / 10 Authors Read


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

0 / 6

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

1 / 3


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

0 / 7

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.

1 / 3


V. Castro

Read? Title Acquired Rating
Hairspray and Switchblades Read 4
Goddess of Filth Read 5
Queen of the Cicadas eARC None
Mestiza Blood No None
The Haunting of Alejandra eARC None
Aliens: Vasquez No 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!

2 / 6

Author’s Recommendations

Read? Title Author Acquired Rating
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Alvin Schwartz No None
Love in Vein Poppy Z. Brite No None
Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice Physical Reread NO RATING

My Thoughts: INSERT

1 / 3


Grady Hendrix

Read? Title Acquired Rating
My Best Friend’s Exorcism Ebook None
We Sold Our Souls No None
Paperbacks from Hell Read 5
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires Ebook None
How to Sell a Haunted House No None
The Final Girl Support Group No None
Horrorstor Read 4

2 / 7

Author’s Recommendations

Read? Title Author Acquired Rating
The Auctioneer Joan Samson Physical None
When Darkness Loves Us Elizabeth Engstram Physical None
The Tribe Bari Wood Physical None

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0 / 3


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

0 / 10

Author’s Recommendations

Read? Title Author Acquired Rating
Misery Stephen King No None
Rosemary’s Baby Ira Levin Ebook None
Lord of the Flies William Golding Physical None

My Thoughts: INSERT

0 / 3


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

3 / 9

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

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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

0 / 6

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

1 / 3


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

0 / 8

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

0 / 3


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

1 / 9

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

0 / 3


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

0 / 6

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

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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

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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

0 / 6


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

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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

1 / 8


Other Books Mentioned

Read? Title Author Acquired Rating
Clown in a Cornfield Adam Cesare No None
Human Monsters Sadie Hartmann No None

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