Actually Scary & Unsettling Horror Books

Discover the most actually scary and unsettling horror books that will keep you up at night. Explore chilling tales of terror, psychological dread, and supernatural horror from master storytellers.

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The Damnation Game

by Clive Barker

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ONE OF THE BEST HORROR NOVELS IN A VERY LONG TIME...do not miss it!”—USA Today There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gambler can resist. Amid the shadow-scarred rubble of World War II, Joseph Whitehead dared to challenge the dark champion of life’s ultimate game. Now a millionaire, locked in a terror-shrouded fortress of his own design, Joseph Whitehead has hell to pay. And no soul is safe from this ravaging fear, the resurrected fury, the unspeakable desire of... THE DAMNATION GAME
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The Throne of Bones

by Brian McNaughton

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Summer of Night

 

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Wormwood

by Poppy Brite

“Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them . . . this is the voice we’re going to be hearing for a long time.”—Harlan Ellison In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can’t hear the music. . . Behind a dusty Georgia carny show. . . In a mausoleum in Baton Rouge, or in an alley in Calcutta. . . Here wanderers come to rest, the lost and lonely press their bodies up against each other, the heat rises, flesh yields, bones are bared, blood spills. This is the landscape of today’s most brilliant young horror writer, Poppy Z. Brite. Now, in a collection that sings like cutting edge rock ’n’ roll and shows the deft touch of a master storyteller, Poppy Z. Brite weaves her unique spell of the sensual, the frightening, and the forbidden. . . “Every page of Brite’s work stresses the beautiful and heartbreaking strangeness of the world.”—Fangoria
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Hell House

 

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