But if you would like to dip into reading horror, this list is a good start. Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. —Steve Foxe, Laird Barron is something of a horror author’s horror author, whose work in cosmic terror speaks to a subset of genre fans but goes unfairly overlooked by readers who think Lovecraft’s influence begins and ends with tentacled monstrosities. “Horror” is a wildly subjective genre, and we invite debate over any and all lines we’ve drawn while assembling the list. Mariko Koike’s 1986 novel The Graveyard Apartment, which finally received an English translation in 2016, precedes the “J-horror” boom led by Ring and its adaptation. Bird Box by Josh Malerman Terrifying throughout its suspenseful crescendos, it combines the disorientation of 28 Days Later, the life-or-death urgency of The Walking Dead and even some of the superhuman dazzle of X-Men. Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box remains one of the most startling horror debuts in recent memory, announcing the arrival of an all-time great scaremonger. If the 2000s saw the genre begin to climb out of its sobering '90s slump, the 2010s found it flourishing in both the small-press realm and at major . . 15. All Rights Reserved. 2015 Beyond the cheery name and amusement-park shine, Manx’ Christmasland is the last place good little boys and girls want to end up, and Vic is the only child who escapes a ride on the Wraith. It feels like it was just last week when we all woke in a collected state of paranoia. —Alexis Gunderson, It’s hard to say if any of Stephen King’s recent novels stand up to his ‘70s and ‘80s hot streak, but novels like Mr. Mercedes, Revival and 11/22/63 prove that he’s absolutely still “got it.” The Outsider, soon to be an HBO series, is a tough one to place: its first half is among the most chilling work King has ever produced, as a small-town little league coach is arrested, under ironclad evidence, for a reprehensible murder—despite equally undeniable evidence that he was nowhere near the victim at the time of the attack. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. 637 books — 580 voters. —Steve Foxe, Dan Simmons survived the ‘80s horror bust just fine, spending much of the ‘90s on his Hyperion Cantos sci-fi tomes before finding renewed horror success in this millennium with Drood, The Terror and The Abominable, an absolute mountain of a novel that happens to be set on one, too. Don’t get me wrong, it’s awesome that the Millennium Bug effected far fewer than imagined. As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, let's take a look at the 50 horror books of the 2010s that terrified readers the most. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. For many, living in a strange world isn’t necessarily a blast. It's an amazing anthology spanning a decade's worth of year's best fiction, drawing on diverse subgenres and modes. Just don’t expect easy answers waiting for you once it’s over. They call him the October Boy, or Ol’ Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. The Outsider eventually explains too much by the time its finale comes around, but the good far outweighs the oversharing in this chilling mystery. The Best of the Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow We've talked about Best of the Best Horror before, and with a name like that, there was little chance of it not ending up on this list. 4 4) Night Chill by Jeff Gunhus. The only defense is knowledge. American and Swedish readers of vampire fiction will be thrilled! 2002 Psycho by Robert Bloch (1959) If you're into horror, you're no stranger to Psycho. It’s just a little humorous to think of the fear that wriggled its way into so many minds. Wong, who cut his teeth writing for Cracked.com under his real name, never loses sight of the horror side of the equation, ratcheting up the gonzo comedy to make the existential dread all the more pervasive. The thing is that King also just happens to be a masterful storyteller whose best work of the decade will warm your heart more than scare the hell out of you. The collection includes the stories behind seminal body horror movies, John Carpenter's The Thing, David Cronenberg's The Fly and Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator. An exhilarating reinvention of the gothic novel, inspired by the iconic characters of our greatest myths and nightmares. Hemlock Grove is now a hit television series on Netflix. Here's your definitive Top 10 horror films from 2010-2019. ( Log Out /  In short, this gloriously engaging and utterly queer collection is necessary reading. Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. These books were published between the year 2010 to 2019. Most of his books have a b movie feel, with over the top sex and violence to the point that it's almost comical. The best part of Chris Ware's graphic novel is maybe the format: Instead of a traditional book, Building Stories comes as a box filled with pamphlets, hardcovers, newspapers, flip-books, and a folded-up board. —Jeff Milo, 3 of 21 Horror comes in many forms but when it is on the page it is truly the scariest king. You should not have touched this book with your bare hands. The 100 Best Horror Movies Of The Past Decade [Part One] By Matt Donato / Oct. 28, 2019 9:00 am EST Welcome to part one of our countdown of the 100 best horror movies the past decade . Thirty years have gone by since the darkness descended and the Black Harvest began, a time when a serial killer sheared a bloody swath through the quiet Pennsylvania village. Over the course of the decade . I can think of a number of books I would add. The Shining Girls is a stunning reinvention—and reclamation—of the “Final Girl” trope, and one of the most remarkable horror novels of the decade. Rather than Horns, I preferred NOS4A2. Victor LaValle cites Shirley Jackson as an influence, and that lineage is easy to identify in this literary piece that's as much about institutional failings as it is about the bison-headed devil wandering the halls of a mental institution. It’s time for a little revenge. Flesh Gothic, The Black Train, City Infernal, and Succubi are my faves of his. —Steve Foxe, 6 of 21 —Steve Foxe, M.R. An alternate history first contact adventure set in the early 2000's, pitched as Arrival meets The Three-Body Problem, by video essayist Lindsay Ellis. Blending time travel, history, a little romance, and political intrigue, this is an oddly feel-good tale—odd because it's about assassination and comes from the king of horror. Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in this one-horse town. I suppose for a general horror (not my beloved splatterpunk) I would add Ghoul by Brian Keene, World War Z by Max Brooks, and Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story — of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams. Change ). Perhaps King’s most personal and powerful novel, Lisey’s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. . . With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. The Best Horror Novels of the 2010s This list includes 25 horror novels that will keep you up at night, introducing haunting demonic possessions and time-traveling serial killers. Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. Listed by Stephen King as one of the best horror books of the 20th century, The Haunting of Hill House is a must-read for any fan of the genre. His follow-up, My Best Friend's Exorcism, dials back the meta-factor; aside from the yearbook-style packaging, this tale of '80s gal pals dealing with a demonic intrusion could easily a have been a paperback original during horror's boom period—and that's a compliment. 3 3) Weaveworld by Clive Barker. And we need jarring novels. In the final book in the Infected trilogy, the entire human race balances on the razor’s edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into ... 2. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. As with The Terror before it, The Abominable mines real historical events and geographic extremes to populate its intimidating page count with scares straight out of real life—and that’s before factoring in the most famous cryptozoological specimen to ever claim the adjective “abominable” ahead of its name. 2016 Conlon’s narrator, Mona Straw, slowly unravels while carrying out an affair…with her 11-year-old student. ( Log Out /  Perfect for crime buffs, urban historians, and fans of American Crime Story, this riveting collection details New York's most startling and unsettling crimes through behind-the-scenes analysis of investigations and more than 250 revealing ... Maybe it's the pandemic stress causing us to lose track of time, but a lot of Millennials and Gen Xers are coming to terms with the fact that major events like 9/11 and the Y2K scare happened more than 20 years ago. Two young girls, one extraordinary and one suffocating under her own feelings of mediocrity, connect online and form a friendship that will have terrible consequences. Here are the best scary movies, horror comedies and other fright films from the last 10 years, 2010-2019. Best Books of the Decade: 1860s. Dragons. Art. Revolution. The new blockbuster original fantasy work from Nebula, Hugo and Clarke award nominated author Yoon Ha Lee! “An arresting tale of loyalty, identity, and the power of art. With your eyes closed and your imagination unfettered, you can envision creatures whose monstrosity knows no bounds. Top 10 Best Horror Movies In The Last Decade, Ranked (According to IMDb) The horror genre has been a shining spot over the past ten years and these are highest-rated on IMDb. Few games manage to be so completely perfect in every possible way, yet The Last Of Us nailed it with its music, immersive environment, beautiful graphics, smart level design, and emotional storyline. Those of us who aren’t over eager to swallowed by technology still get a kick out of the simple things in life. The Troop isn’t for those with sensitive stomachs, but it’s an excellent modern torchbearer for gory tales of yore. In the book’s unforgettable introduction, our protagonist travels down a river with black fabric knotted around her eyes, shepherding two similarly blinded four-year-olds, rowing their way to an uncertain sanctuary while any sound they hear could very well be one of these monsters sloshing ever closer to the bow of the boat. Horror and comedy make for frequent yet not always compatible bedfellows, with the latter genre often hogging the pillows. Alma Katsu, like Dan Simmons a few spots farther down this list, uses historical record as the basis for a supernatural thriller, as she empathetically fleshes out (no pun intended) the stories of desperate travelers crossing a deadly route in search of a better life. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. As this decade comes to a close, however, we want to celebrate the horror novels that impacted us during the last 10 years. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. —Steve Foxe, Stephen Graham Jones has been a genre mainstay for years, pumping out a high volume of excellent short stories, under-the-radar novels and nonfiction about horror. But he finally broke out in a bigger fashion with Mongrels, a novel-length expansion of a short story that previously appeared in his collection After the People Lights Have Gone Off. You may not want to know about the things you’ll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. Posted on April 3, 2016 in Featured Articles // 5 Comments. I’m sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. For more best of the decade book coverage, check out our lists of the best novels, best fantasy novels, best memoirs and best Young Adult novels of the 2010s. We no longer mail our payments in, we log on, and do the footwork on the internet as opposed to the streets. Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color. —Steve Foxe, Christopher Conlon’s all-too-possible Savaging the Dark shares a premise with Alissa Nutting’s controversial Tampa, but the differences in execution are what makes this novel truly horrific and Nutting’s more of a pitch-black comedy. Highly Recommend This Book.” -Dave Baker – Book Bloggers of America “Very interesting story. I highly recommend this book to any zombie lover out there. They were wrong. From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry in the series that has brought you stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman comes 25thrilling stories, the best horror stories available. Recap: If you missed part 1, 2 and 3 featuring numbers 21 to 50, the links below. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. Horror has had an excellent decade in print. In the book's unforgettable introduction, our protagonist travels down a river with black fabric knotted around her eyes, shepherding two similarly blinded four-year-olds, rowing their way to an uncertain sanctuary while any sound they hear could very well be one of these monsters sloshing ever closer to the bow of the boat. 573 books — 629 voters. Still a year out from one of history’s most brutal and shocking terrorist attacks, the year arrived on the heels of a controlled panic. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. 1 of 21 Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill For more than a decade, Jeremy Robert Johnson has been bubbling under the surface of both literary and genre fiction. Take note, as many of these pieces feel like true throwback works, designed to cater to the hardcore anti-evolutionist in some of us. The Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade _____ Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran (2011) Gran's first in the Claire DeWitt series was a shot of adrenaline straight into the arm of private eye fiction, a gleefully strange, esoteric, sometimes hallucinatory new rendition of a beloved genre. His follow-up, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, dials back the meta-factor; aside from the yearbook-style packaging, this tale of ‘80s gal pals dealing with a demonic intrusion could easily a have been a paperback original during horror’s boom period—and that’s a compliment. The Best Horror Books of All Time. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Stephen Graham Jones, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. 10 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (2012) - 91% Released in 2012 by director Drew Goddard and writer Joss Whedon, The Cabin in the Woods was a horror movie that subverted fan's expectations in a good way. —Steve Foxe, From the serial killer ghost in the first book to the maligned spirits trapping people their sleep in the second to the possessed asylum doctor terrorizing his ward in the third, Libba Bray’s 1920s-set Diviners series delivers no end of unhinged ghosts and demons. Four unnamed scientists enter Area X, where plants and animals behave…differently. Whether you realize it or not, the visionaries of the world have continued to shine through works of fiction. . Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth. His short stories present a brilliantly dark and audaciously weird realm where cosmic nightmares collide with all-too-human characters and apocalypses of all shapes and sizes loom ominously. All Rights Reserved. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic. 8. That's it for the best horror books of the decade! Killjoy’s prose is sharp, her characters fiercely modern and her grasp on folk horror unyielding. . 3. The list below is still dominated by straight white cis men, but the last few years give ample reason to expect that similar rankings will shift as more diverse voices get a seat at the terror table. Collects twenty-five short stories from prominent writers of horror fiction published between 1984 and 2005. *The books are listed in alphabetical order by title. —Steve Foxe, If you’ve seen the well-received film adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation but have never picked up the source material, you’re missing out on one of the most unique horror experiences of the last decade. The best horror books of the decade are books that will scare you, shock you and generally make your skin crawl. As the tension ratchets up, each of the guests is confronted by inexplicable phenomena. I thought it a much better book. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . Any list like this is going to have people who are upset that their favorite didn’t make the cut. A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli 2000 —Steve Foxe, Joey Comeau’s first horror outing, One Bloody Thing After Another, is perhaps creepier and more unsettling than this summer-camp slasher. His short stories present a brilliantly dark and audaciously weird realm where cosmic nightmares collide with all-too-human characters and apocalypses of all shapes and sizes loom ominously. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Two full decades past the new millennium, time has gotten…well, wonky.Maybe it's the pandemic stress causing us to lose track of time, but a lot of Millennials and Gen Xers are coming to terms with the fact that major events like 9/11 and the Y2K scare happened more than 20 years ago.If the 2010s have become a blur, allow me to refresh your memory of the best horror books of the decade. This list includes 25 novels published in English for the first time between 2010 and September 2019, and we’ve limited it to one book per author. Detroit-based author Josh Malerman manifests an apocalypse of the obscured in Bird Box, in which undiscovered entities start appearing around the world and just one glance of their grotesquery drives people to suicide. "When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares he wants to be a police officer after graduation, his mother, Reagan, won't hear of it. From Jeremy C. Shipp, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Atrocities, comes a tense dark fantasy novel of psychological horror in Bedfellow. 2015 Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. For more than a decade, Jeremy Robert Johnson has been bubbling under the surface of both literary and genre fiction. I've been asked to compile a list of the best paranormal fantasy novels of the last decade (2003-2013): a virtually impossible task, considering how many iconic series and authors have risen to prominence during that period—Laurell K. Hamilton, Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, Patricia Briggs, Richard Kadrey, Kat Richardson, Stacia Kane, Nicole . Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa. But the stakes rise when a monstrous entity masquerading as Coraline's mother kidnaps the girl's real parents, leaving Coraline to rely on the assistance of eerie allies in the ghosts of children ensnared by the spell of "Other-Mother." Technically, House of Leaves is about the making of a horror movie set in a haunted house. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. His account of these shattering hours, in which past and present, fate and destiny, converge, is a testament by which to live—an unforgettable fable for our time destined to rank among Dean Koontz’s most enduring works. Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours. When Apollo Kagwa’s wife does the unthinkable after the birth of their son, he undertakes a journey across the five boroughs that feels infinitely larger. James in constructing the haunting, near-gothic atmosphere of a British women's penitentiary inhabited by more than the living. The novel, which puts a new spin on [mild spoiler] the zombie genre, is stellar, but not as genuinely scary as his follow-up, Fellside. “Rising horror star”* Christopher Buehlman, author of The Lesser Dead, returns with a chilling and thrilling tale of dark evil lurking on the lonely, open road. Best science fiction, fantasy and horror of . It's a place where even the walls whisper. And one voice belongs to a little boy with a message for Jess. Will she listen? Lose yourself in Fellside, M. R. Carey's chillingly atmospheric tale of addiction, revenge, and redemption. Blog at WordPress.com. Nevill’s tale follows a foursome of British pals hiking through the forests of Sweden, who soon come across unusual artifacts, a desecrated church and black-metal teenagers who are too into their mythological inspirations. A solid home invasion thriller, with a satisfying story and catchy af song, You're Next will hold a special place in my heart for many years to come. The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale will stun and surprise. If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put ... Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. Slenderman Video: Author Lee McGeorge Explores the Home of Slenderman! Now a Netflix Original Movie! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Most of us were a little nervous, and it’s nice to look back and scoff at our collected over-active imaginations. Cosmic horror is too often a bloated, derivative subgenre; the novel features nesting stories, jumping through time; and the central emotional heft relies on men grieving women who have little autonomy of their own. The book's unique blend of movie scripts and footnotes lends an academic gloss to the story's ever-increasing sense of dread. A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year In this latest novel from Stephen Graham Jones comes a “heartbreakingly beautiful story” (Library Journal, starred review) of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of ... The Cabin at the End of the World finds Tremblay teasing that question out nearly cover to cover. 2012 John and I never had the chance to say no. Revival by Stephen King. In this chilling tale reality, memoir, and fantasy combine to create not only a fascinating version of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness. 221 books — 407 voters. . —Jeff Milo, You would think that folk horror, which relies on remote places and forgotten practices, would fall out of favor in a 24/7-connected world, but works like director Ari Aster’s Midsommar and novelist Adam Nevill’s The Ritual prove that pagan rites can always generate a chill. . As it turns out, not much of anything profoundly impacting happened in 2000. Maybe people are realizing just how satisfying it is to settle into a scary story, feel the rush of adrenaline, and then close the book, turn off the movie, or walk . What slowly unravels from this disconcerting discovery makes for a disturbing—and literal—descent. In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers. Horror Audiobooks That Will Terrify You (Ten Best of All Time) Table of Contents [ Show Table of Contents] 1 1) Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King. But if you take the time to cut through the Infinite Jest-like structure of Danielewski's doorstopper, you'll be rewarded with a legitimately unsettling premise: the family in the story within the story has moved into a house that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It’s worth acknowledging that the list is very white and very male—while authors like Alyssa Wong and Emily Carroll are tearing up the short fiction and comic worlds, the novel-length arm of the genre appears slow to diversify. In the book, [Aaron] Mahnke visits places around the world that are steeped in a supernatural legacy.”—Refinery29 Told in 11 interconnected vignettes, the story here is a deep exploration of the depths of humanity's worst traits, from greed to lust to obsession.

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