Best American Horror Books
Here you will get Best American Horror Books For you.This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
1. The Sleep Experiment: An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller (World's Scariest Legends)
Author: by Jeremy Bates
English
255 pages
1988091381
From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the second STAND-ALONE book in the all-new WORLD’S SCARIEST LEGENDS series. For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Creepypastas. In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas.
The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness.None survived. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment during the summer break in a soon-to-be demolished building on campus.
He and two student assistants share an eight-hour rotational schedule to observe their young Australian test subjects around the clock. What begins innocently enough, however, morphs into a nightmare beyond description that no one could have imaginedwith, perhaps, the exception of Dr. Roy Wallis himself.
2. Watchers
Author: by Dean Koontz
B001974DG0
Berkley
May 6, 2008
A superior thriller(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontznominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life.
What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation…
3. Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse Book 2)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
B000O76OOA
Ace (March 26, 2002)
March 26, 2002
The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s addictively entertaining(Locus) Sookie Stackhouse seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood. Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for herher red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Comptonshe has to admit that the bloodsuckers did save her life.
So when one of the local Undead asks the cocktail waitress for a favor, she feels like she owes them. Soon, Sookie’s in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved.
There’s just one condition: The vampires must promise to behaveand let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly…
4. Suicide Forest (World's Scariest Places)
Author: by Jeremy Bates
Ghillinnein Books
English
369 pages
From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes a tale of mystery and horror set in Japan’s ancient Suicide Forest, a place that is easy to enter but, for some, impossible to leave. Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for horror.
For fans of Stephen King. Just outside of Tokyo lies Aokigahara, a vast forest and one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in Japan… And also the most infamous spot to commit suicide in the world. Legend has it that the spirits of those many suicides are still roaming, haunting deep in the ancient woods.
When bad weather prevents a group of friends from climbing neighboring Mt. Fuji, they decide to spend the night camping in Aokigahara. But they get more than they bargained for when one of them is found hanged in the morningand they realize there might be some truth to the legends after all.
Praise for Jeremy Bates:”Old-school horror story reminiscent of Stephen King” “Best book I’ve read to date” “Perfect for Laymon fans!” “Definitely recommend to all fans of modern horror” “A master storyteller!” “I sort of fell into Jeremy Bates by accident, and I’m so glad I did.
5. Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse Book 4)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
B000O76OOU
Ace (May 3, 2005)
May 3, 2005
Psychic Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full with an amnesiac vampire in the fourth seductive novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood. When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn’t just drive on by.
Turns out the poor thing hasn’t a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It’s the vampire Eric Northmanbut now he’s a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life. Sookie’s investigation into why leads straight into a dangerous battle among witches, vampires, and werewolves.
But a greater danger could be to Sookie’s heartbecause the kinder, gentler Eric is very difficult to resist…
6. Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse Book 5)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
B000O76OP4
Ace (April 25, 2006)
April 25, 2006
Small town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse’s supernatural existence puts her in the line of fire in the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood. When Sookie Stackhouse sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time.
But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacksunless the killer decides to find her first…
7. Dawn Girl: An absolutely gripping serial killer thriller (Tess Winnett)
Author: by Leslie Wolfe
B01I0X2YR0
August 30, 2016
English
Her beautiful face is caught in the final moment of death, lips slightly parted where the last breath escaped. Her unseeing blue eyes are wide and fearful. A few flecks of sand, sparkling in the morning light, cling to her long, dark lashes.
A GRIPPING SERIAL KILLER THRILLERWoW!Holy Smoke! Best thriller I have read in years and I have read hundreds. Absolutely movie material.WoW just WOW!!! Mawna Who is the beautiful girl found dead at dawn, on a deserted stretch of golden sand?What is her secret?
FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett searches for the answers to the baffling crime and with each step, each new clue uncovered, she unravels more unsettling facts that lead her to a single possible conclusion: Dawn Girl is not the first.
Her killer has done this before. Hiding a terrible secret of her own, Tess must face her innermost fears, in a heart-stopping race to catch a killer who’s getting ready to strike again. But can she find him in time and prevent another murder?
8. Turbulent: A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Days of Want Series Book 1)
Author: by T. L. Payne
English
230 pages
1096036290
In an instant, everything stops.No lights.No phones.No transportation. When coordinated EMP and Cyber attacks wipe out the nation’s power grid and communications, ultra marathon runner, Maddie Langston, is forced to run for her life. Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie is in a race against time.
According to her father, she doesn’t have long before the city descends into chaos. She must leave the airport before it is too late. Although she knows she must flee the Windy City, Maddie’s first battle is to overcome her fear of the violence she knows is coming.
She’s a fighter; she just doesn’t know it yet. The perilous journey out of the city becomes even more difficult when Maddie takes responsibility for an orphaned ten-year-old girl. Together, as chaos fills the streets, they must fight to survive in a Turbulent new world.
Would you have what it takes to survive? This heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller is the first book in T.L. Payne’s Days of Want Series.Get it Now! PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Turbulent has recently undergone a second round of professional edits to take care of those pesky typos.
9. The Catacombs (World's Scariest Places)
Author: by Jeremy Bates
Ghillinnein Books
English
365 pages
From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes a bone-chilling descent into the tunnels beneath Paris where an unknown evil awaits. AHWA winner for horror. For fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Paris, France, is known as the City of Lights, a metropolis renowned for romance and beauty.
Beneath the bustling streets and cafs, however, exists The Catacombs, a labyrinth of crumbling tunnels filled with six million dead. When a video camera containing mysterious footage is discovered deep within their depths, a group of friends venture into the tunnels to investigate.
But what starts out as a lighthearted adventure takes a turn for the worse when they reach their destinationand stumble upon the evil lurking there. Praise for Jeremy Bates:”Old-school horror story reminiscent of Stephen King” “Best book I’ve read to date” “Perfect for Laymon fans!” “Definitely recommend to all fans of modern horror” “A master storyteller!” “I sort of fell into Jeremy Bates by accident, and I’m so glad I did.
10. Frankenstein: The Original 1818 text of Mary Shelley (200th Anniversary Collection Classics Edition, #1)
Author: by Mary Shelley
B092P6WYNV
English
172 pages
March 20, 2010
English
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Laurell K.Hamilton’s ‘Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter’ novels have established her as a force to be reckoned with. Her voice is fresh, her style sensual, her characters leap off the page and her blend of the contemporary and the supernatural is both original and exciting.
Now, in A KISS OF SHADOWS, she introduces readers to an unforgettable new heroine: Meredith Gentry. A Los Angeles private investigator with a strange speciality – supernatural crime, Merry has an even stranger secret: she’s a Faerie princess in hiding, and on the run from her own otherworldly realm.
For her aunt, the malevolent Queen of Air and Darkness, has dispatched her chief bodyguard back to the mortal world to fetch Meredith back, whether she likes it or not. She is to be the pawn in a plot that will transform the future of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.
Her role: to enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful – and immortal – men in the world of the Sidhe. Her reward: the crown. The penalty for refusal: death… Rich, sensual and full of earthly pleasures, dazzling magic and memorable characters, some as deadly as they are beautiful, A KISS OF SHADOWS is an unbridled tour-de-force of the imagination where folklore, myth and legend come together with thrilling, erotically-charged adventure.
12. Intercepts: A horror novel
Author: by T.J. Payne
English
325 pages
1098943856
Featured on: Cosmopolitan’s “31 Best Horror Books of All Time” ListJoe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind. They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.
All the test subjects went violently insane. But the research continued. Today it has been perfected.Almost perfected. From the author of In My Father’s Basement comes another chilling novel that’s a must-read for fans of horror. “Gruesome, gripping, and terrifyingly real!”REVIEWS:”A sick, fresh twist on the usual thriller/horror genre””Like watching a horror film””Refreshingly original””A page turner you won’t want to put down””No book has ever made goosebumps run down my spine this much.”
13. Island of the Dolls (World's Scariest Places)
Author: by Jeremy Bates
Ghillinnein Books
English
325 pages
OVER ONE MILLION READERS HAVE TAKEN THE JOURNEY TO THE WORLD’S SCARIEST PLACES.NOW IT’S YOUR TURN. USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates takes you to an infamous haunted island scattered with thousands of eerie dollswhere more than just the toys’ glassy eyes are upon you.
Foreword Indies Book of the Year winner. For fans of Joe Hill and Stephen King. Deep within an ancient Aztec canal system on the outskirts of Mexico City lies Isla de las Munecas… A reportedly haunted island infested with thousands of decrepit dolls.
While there to film a television documentary, several friends discover a brutal murder. Soon fear and paranoia turn them against one anothereven as the unknown killer stalks them throughout the longest night of their lives. Praise for Jeremy Bates:”Old-school horror story reminiscent of Stephen King” “Best book I’ve read to date” “Perfect for Laymon fans!” “Definitely recommend to all fans of modern horror” “A master storyteller!” “I sort of fell into Jeremy Bates by accident, and I’m so glad I did.
14. The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, Book 6)
Author: by Kim Harrison
B000UZPH2G
HarperCollins e-books
October 13, 2009
Vampire and bounty hunter extraordinaire Rachel Morgan must play a dangerous game in which the the prize is her immortal soul in this riveting new tale in the bestselling Hollows series To save the lives of her friends, Rachel Morgan, witch and runner, did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic.
Now she’s about to pay for that sin …. But there was one person her wits and wiles couldn’t save. Searching for the truth behind her love’s murder, Rachel treads a dangerous path, filled with deadly menace and shocking suprises including a powerful demon determined to claim her and a family secret that throws her entire life into question.
If she is ever to live free, she must walk willingly into the demonic ever-after in search of long-lost knowledge. But when a woman dances with demons, she lays her soul on the line … And Rachel may never return.
15. Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, Book 3)
Author: by Kim Harrison
B000FCK990
HarperCollins e-books
October 13, 2009
In Every Which Way But Dead, witch and former bounty hunter Rachel Morgan’s managed to escape her corrupt company, survive living with a vampire, start her own runner service, and face down a vampire master. But her vampire roommate Ivy is off the wagon, her human boyfriend Nick is out of town indefinitely and doesn’t sound like he’s coming back while the far-too-seductive vampire Kisten is looking way too tempting, and there’s a turf war erupting in Cincinnati’s underworld.
And there’s a greater evil still. To put the vampire master behind bars and save her family, Rachel made a desperate bargain and now there’s hell to pay-literally. For if Rachel cannot stop him, the archdemon Algaliarept will pull her into the sorcerous ever-after to forfeit her soul as his slave.Forever.
16. Helltown (World's Scariest Places)
Author: by Jeremy Bates
Ghillinnein Books
English
275 pages
OVER ONE MILLION READERS HAVE TAKEN THE JOURNEY TO THE WORLD’S SCARIEST PLACES.NOW IT’S YOUR TURN. An isolated region is plagued with rumors of dark and deadly forcesthe locals call it Helltown. Since the 1980s there have been numerous reports of occult activity and other possibly supernatural phenomenon within certain villages and townships of Summit County, Ohioan area collectively known as Helltown.
When a group of out-out-town friends investigating the legends are driven off the road by a mysterious hearse, their night of cheap thrills turns to chills as they begin to die one by one. Praise for Jeremy Bates:”Old-school horror story reminiscent of Stephen King” “Best book I’ve read to date” “Perfect for Laymon fans!” “Definitely recommend to all fans of modern horror” “A master storyteller!” “I sort of fell into Jeremy Bates by accident, and I’m so glad I did.
He’s one of my new favorite writers, and I urge everyone to check him out” “The most chilling book I’ve ever read!” “Absolutely loved this book” “Non-stop adrenaline rush from beginning to end” “Any Stephen King or Dean Koontz fan will love it” “I was hooked from the first page!” “Binge worthy!” “This is one of the best books I have ever read!” “A very juicy, scary ride” “Suicide Forest is up there with Joe Hill’s Heart Shaped Box” “Scariest book I’ve ever read” “Huge fan of Mr Bates!
