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Exploring Sub-Genres: Horror

As long as humans have gathered around the fire to tell stories, they have shared ones that have chilled them to their very core. The deep roots of Horror has led to the branching off to smaller subgenres that feature specific settings, scares, and shocking creatures. Delve deep into the theatrical macabre that is the Horror genre with this list to discover something new!

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  • Gothic Horror. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her…
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020] — MORENOGA
  • Hauntings & Spirits. Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money--it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't…
    Book, 2023New York : Nightfire/Tor Publishing Group, [2023] — COMPTON
  • Slasher. It's the last summer for Kit Lamb: the last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins. But the night before the big game, one of Kit's…
    Book, 2022New York : Del Rey, [2022] — MALERMAN
  • Devolution

    a Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

    Brooks, Max
    Creature Feature. Set in the wilds of Washington State, Greenloop was once a model eco-community--until nature's wrath made it a tragic object lesson in civilization's fragility. Offering a glorious back-to-nature experience with all the comforts of…
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020] — BROOKS
  • Sci-Fi Horror. Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of…
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Nightfire/Tor Publishing Group, [2025] — BARNES
  • Horror Comedy. This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something…
    Book, 2010New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. — WONG
  • Historical Horror. In the 1840s, a young man named Silas Weir begins practicing medicine in Pennsylvania. Though he is considered inept by family, neighbors, and even his mentor, Dr. Weir discovers he has a gift for phlebotomy, treating patients by…
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — OATES
  • Gothic Horror. Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful…
    Book, 2021New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. — STARLING
  • Mary

    An Awakening of Terror

    Cassidy, Nat, 1981-
    Hauntings & Spirits. Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she…
    Book, 2022New York : Nightfire, 2022. — CASSIDY
  • Slasher. In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious, a victim and a hero. But after the…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, 2022. — HENDRIX
  • Sci-Fi Horror. We owe our good health to a humble parasite -- a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system --…
    Book, 2013New York, NY : Orbit, 2013. — GRANT
  • Horror Comedy. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact…
    Book, 2015New York : HarperPerennial, [2015] — FINK
  • Historical Horror. The Film, "The Birth of a Nation" cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable.…
    Book, 2020New York : Tordotom Book, 2020. — CLARK
  • Gothic Horror. Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted by "her," a curse passed down through the generations that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak and death. But Iris dares to fall in love, and the…
    Book, 2017Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017. — WARD
  • Hauntings & Spirits. On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the…
    Book, 2021New York : William Morrow, [2021] — MATTSON
  • Slasher. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the…
    Book, 2020New York : HarperCollins, [2020] — CESARE
  • Creature Feature. Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth century woman whose eyes and…
    Book, 2016New York : Tor, 2016. — OLDEHEUV
  • Sci-Fi Horror. Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship—all specialists in their own…
    Book, 2021New York : DAW Books, Inc., [2021] — NGUYEN
  • Horror Comedy. Kendric was once known as Caligula. Now he’s a porn king, and the Master Vampire of Florida. His tastes have always run to the sadistic and macabre, but he’s known for being fair to his slaves and underlings. He also prefers feline…
    Book, 2015Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2015] — TRUSS
  • Historical Horror. Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps…
    Book, 2018[Place of publication not identified] : Litt, Brown and Company, 2018. — HUNT

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