Category: Horror

Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...

INSPECTION By Josh Malerman Del Rey, March 2019 Two schools. One starting out with 26 boys, the other with 26 girls. All being raised and educated from infancy with no knowledge or awareness of the opposite sex. J and his brothers are expected to...

Title: The Hatching Author: Ezekiel Boone Publisher: Atria, 7/2016 Summary/Review: Would you prefer death by a swarm of flesh eating spiders, or death by an exploding spider egg sac laid within your body? It seems like those might be your only choices, unless you...

Title: The Night Sister Author: Jennifer McMahon Publisher: Doubleday, August 2015 Summary/Review: “Do you believe in monsters?” You might after reading the creepy new novel by Jennifer McMahon. And by creepy I mean awesome. Growing up in and around the decrepit Tower Motel in...

Title: Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister Authors: Stefan Bachmann, Emma Trevayne, Katherine Catmull, & Claire Legrand Published:  Greenwillow Books, 2014 Summary/Review:  This book of short stories is presented by four outstanding children’s/YA authors.  Asked to collect their most horrifying stories, the...

Title: Breed Author: Chase Novak Publisher: Mulholland Books, 2012 Summary/Review: Desperate to have a child of their own, a New York couple travels to Slovenia for a radical procedure which has horrifying results. Alex and Leslie Twisden have tried just about everything to conceive...

Title: NOS4A2 Author: Joe Hill Publisher: Harper Collins, 2013 Summary/Review: This story begins with a very young Victoria McQueen, a bike, and her encounter with a magic bridge. We are then introduced to a man named Bing Partridge who befriends a monstrous, evil, and...

Title: These Children Who Come At You With Knives and Other Fairy Tales Author: Jim Knipfel Publisher: Simon & Schuster, June 2010 Summary: Fractured fairy tales have long been a popular genre in youth literature, and in this wicked, inspired collection, the grown-ups finally...

Title: Adam Author: Ted Dekker Summary:  FBI agent Daniel Clarke is obsessed with finding the serial killer known as Eve. Eve has killed at least 16 women and shows no sign of stopping. Daniel’s obsession has already cost him his marriage and now it...