18 books like Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 6

What to read after Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 6 — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Wicked Angel

Wicked Angel Taylor Caldwell A tale of family horror in the tradition of The Bad Seed and The Omen from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Dialogues with the Devil. To his mother, Angelo is the most beautiful and brilliant child in the world. She caters to his every whim and dismisses his malicious outbursts as childish pranks. But as Angelo grows older, his behavior only becomes more disturbing.   … Shares Horror

The Cabin at the End of the World

The Cabin at the End of the World Paul Tremblay Paul Tremblay’s terrifying twist to the home invasion novel—inspiration for the major motion picture from Universal Pictures“Tremblay’s personal best. It’s that good.” — Stephen KingSeven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt… Shares Horror

50 Masterpieces of Gothic Fiction Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Picture Of Dorian Gray... (Halloween Stories)

50 Masterpieces of Gothic Fiction Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Picture Of Dorian Gray... (Halloween Stories) Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, EDGAR ALLAN POE, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Jane Austen, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Bronte, Robert W. Chambers, Wilkie Collins, F. Marion Crawford, Walter de La Mare, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nikolai Gogol, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Franz Kafka & Robert Louis Stevenson Shares Horror with this book.

Floating Staircase

Floating Staircase Ronald Malfi "Deserves to stand alongside a Stephen King or a Dean Koontz—at their best . . . A mature horror yarn" from the award-winning author of Bone White (New York Journal of Books).   Horror writer Travis Glasgow and his wife, Jodie, have bought their first house in Westlake, Maryland, just steps from Travis's older brother's home. Travis is buoyed by the thought… Shares Horror

On Earth As It Is Beneath

On Earth As It Is Beneath Ana Paula Maia & Padma Viswanathan · 2025 · ★ 3.8 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Light On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the prison’s waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full-moon night, the inmates are… Shares Horror

A House With Good Bones

A House With Good Bones T. Kingfisher · 2023 · ★ 3.8 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Moderate **A contemporary Southern Gothic from award-winning master of modern horror T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones explores the deep, dark roots of family.** Sam Montgomery is worried about her mother. She seems anxious, jumpy, and she’s begun making mystifying changes to the family home on Lammergeier Lane. Sam figures it has something to do with her mother’s relationship to Sam’s late,… Shares Horror

The Haunting of Hill House

The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson & Laura Miller The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an… Shares Horror

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories, is the complete Edgar Allan Poe short story anthology, consisting of such classics as "Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in Rue Morgue", "The Pit and the Pendulum" and many more, 68 classic short stories in all. Poe is oft given credit for fathering the Gothic fiction story, as well as the modern detective… Shares Horror

The Woods

The Woods Jessica Hamilton Shares Horror with this book.

Bird Box

Bird Box Josh Malerman “[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling. . . . This earns comparisons to Hitchcock’s The Birds, as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a… Shares Horror

The Night Guest

The Night Guest Hildur Knútsdóttir & Mary Robinette Kowal Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause.When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the… Shares Horror

Blood Rising

Blood Rising Markus Redmond Shares Horror with this book.

Widow's Point

Widow's Point Richard Chizmar & W.H. Chizmar New York Times bestselling author Richard Chizmar, “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste), and his son W.H. Chizmar, critically acclaimed author of Them (hailed by New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman as “one of the best debuts I’ve ever read”) present a riveting found footage narrative about doomed thrill-seekers trapped in a haunted lighthouse.“This is a bad place. I don’t… Shares Horror

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce · 1913 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Moderate This book is about stories that encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer. Shares Horror

Austin And His Friends Frederic H. Balfour · 2005 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The old-fashioned ghost-story was always terrifying and ghastly; something that made people afraid to go to bed, or to look over their shoulders, or to enter a room in the dark. It dealt with apparitions in a white sheet, and clanking chains, and dreadful faces that peered out from behind the window curtains in a haunted chamber. And the more blood-curdling it was, the more keenly people enjoyed… Shares Horror

Weird Horror 13

Weird Horror 13 Undertow Publications Shares Horror with this book.

How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains

How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains Bonnie Quinn Campground manager Kate returns in this supernatural, campy, and cozy horror tale filled with thrilling adventures, mysterious monsters, and spine-chilling encounters, perfect for fans of Welcome to Night Vale and Chuck Tingle.Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your Camping Experience.” It includes a list of rules to help campers have an enjoyable… Shares Horror

Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass

Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass J. L. Bourne This acclaimed military thriller of the zombie apocalypse from the author of Day by Day Armageddon and Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile blends postapocalyptic survivalism with military science fiction. In a desperate bid to take back the continental United States—where hordes of undead now dominate the ravaged human population—a Navy commander leads a global mission to the heart of the… Shares Horror

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