Top Horror Books / Authors

Each month we ask our Facebook followers for a book or series recommendation based on a particular genre or similar parameters – and then print the answers in our mid-month newsletter. This page is a list of the Top Horror Books / Authors.

The responses are below.

If there are any additions to this list please use the comment form at the bottom of the page and we will get them added immediately.

Top Horror Books / Authors:

• Ghoster by Jason Arnopp
• Jonathan Aycliffe
• J.D. Barker
• J.S. Barnes
• The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett
• Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
• Robert Bloch
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• Devolution by Max Brooks
• Ramsey Campbell
• Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
• Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal
• The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
• We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill
• Scott Carson
• The Marsh King’s Daughter by Elizabeth Chadwick
• Clay McLeod Chapman
• Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
• Richard Chizmar
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
• Darcy Coates
• John Connolly
• Robin Cook
• Patricia Cornwell
• Nick Cutter
• Andy Davidson
• The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Christopher Golden
• Ararat by Christopher Golden
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• David Golemon
• Elizabeth Hand
• Thomas Harris
• Marko Hautala
• Grady Hendrix
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
• We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
• Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry
• James Herbert
• Thomas Olde Heuvelt
• Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks
• Joe Hill
• Strange Weather by Joe Hill
• SJI Holliday
• In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
• Andrew Michael Hurley
• Don’t Look Back by Gregg Hurwitz
• Junji Ito
• Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Dead Man’s Time by Peter James
• The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
• The Grip Of It by Jac Jemc
• The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson
• Stephen Graham Jones
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• Brian Keene
• Cassandra Khaw
• Stephen King
• If It Bleeds by Stephen King
• Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
• T. Kingfisher
• The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
• Natsuo Kirino
• Dean Koontz
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• The Living Dead by George Romero & Daniel Kraus
• John Langan
• Victor LaValle
• Richard Laymon
• Sheridan Le Fanu
• Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
• John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Bentley Little
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Robert Marasco
• Graham Masterton
• Richard Matheson
• Daphne du Maurier
• Robert McCammon
• Patrick McGrath
• Jennifer McMahon
• The Invited: A Novel by Jennifer McMahon
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Adam Neville
• Kevin O’Brien
• Camp Carnage by David O’Hanlon
• Camp Slasher by Dan Padavona
• Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
• Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Cherie Priest
• The Toll by Cherie Priest
• Andrew Pyper
• Ann Radcliffe
• Anne Rice
• Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice
• Marilyn Ross
• Disco Deathtrap by Cameron Roubique
• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
• Craig Russell
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
• Final Girls by Riley Sager
• Mary SanGiovanni
• Blackstone Chronicles by John Saul
• Bedfellow by Jeremy C. Shipp
• Dan Simmons
• Jonathan Sims
• Guy N. Smith
• Wonderland by Zoje Stage
• Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
• Dacre Stoker
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Peter Straub
• Carsten Stroud
• Koji Suzuki
• Ubo by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Thomas Tessier
• Scott Thomas
• Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
• Paul Tremblay
• Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
• Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
• The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
• Thomas Tryon
• The Dead Girls Club: A Novel by Damien Angelica Walters
• Babysitter Bloodbath by Regina Watts
• Nun Massacre by Regina Watts
• Chet Williamson
• Escape by Iain Rob Wright