Favourite Horror Novels
Discover the best horror novels ever written, from Stephen King's The Tommyknockers to The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. Explore our curated list of favourite scary books, featuring classics like Watchers by Dean Koontz and Melmoth the Wanderer for your next chilling read.
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The Tommyknockers
by Stephen King
Bobbi Anderson stumbles across a metal object that gave the people powers beyond what ordinary mortals have.
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Watchers
by Dean Koontz
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 Koontz—nominated 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...
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The Keep
by F. Paul Wilson
While investigating the mysterious mutilations and killings of Nazi soldiers at a garrison in Romania, an elite SS extermination squad finds a terrifying evil at work and summons a folklore expert to help--a man who happens to be Jewish. Reissue.
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The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured.
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The Golden
by Lucius Shepard
Deviating from traditional tales that feature lonely vampires who prowl through human society in search of victims or solace, this account of vampires flourishing in their own "inhuman society" takes place in the year 1860, when their centuries-long breeding experiments have finally produced "The Golden," a mortal whose blood is perfect and powerful. Mobilized by the news of this discovery, aristocratic vampire clans arrive at the looming Castle Banat, where they plan to partake of the sublime blood. To their shock, the guests find that The Golden, a young girl, has been brutally murdered and her blood already drained. The story also follows the Inspector Michael Beheim--a recent vampire--assigned to track down the killer. Recounted in full 19th-century literary style with gothic elements and foreshadowing, the inspector navigates his way through the vampire world and the crime therein.
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Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
Young wife Rosemary Woodhouse is drawn into a nightmare when she is selected by a coven to bear the son of Satan.
