Gothic castles and suburban houses, vampires and possessions, cosmic dread and quiet dread, from the novels that set the rules to this decade. 381 books so far, across 82 series, plus 235 titles with no series listed. This is page 6 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonGrubbs Grady goes with his uncle to the set of a horror film being made in the middle of nowhere, which is not a holiday anybody involved would have chosen. Grubbs has fought the demon master Lord Loss once already, so he is alert to the possibility that the production is a way of summoning him again.
Rating coming soonHannah's best friend Lillian has been dead for months, and Lillian's ghost has not left her alone since. The town is filling up with paper hearts and messages, because it is nearly Valentine's Day. Young girls are also being murdered, and Hannah is the only person who can see the friend who follows her.
Rating coming soonSusan has finally fallen in love. Drew is tall, handsome and hiding something, and soon after he arrives in her small town strange things begin to happen. First a girl is found dead on the beach, then another girl turns up completely drained of blood, and Susan has to work out how much Drew knows.
Rating coming soonMichael Monroe is learning a few new lessons this week. Never trust a teacher who believes in monsters. Do not think about entering her house. And stay well away from the giant egg in her attic, especially if it is about to hatch. Michael is not the sort of boy to take advice of that kind.
Rating coming soonCatherine Morland is seventeen and entering society for the first time, and she has read enough Gothic novels to see the world through their lens. Two plausible suitors appear, friendships form quickly, and a visit to an ancient abbey gives her imagination everything it needs. Not all of her suspicions turn out to be correct, and her education is both comic and uncomfortable.
Rating coming soonThe story opens at Cohenburg Castle in Saxony, where two brothers, Alphonsus and Frederic, have grown up, married and started families. Frederic loses his wife and all three of his children, and grief sends him away from the castle. His brother is then called away to the city, and the family's troubles begin in earnest.
Rating coming soonTen years after the murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Charlie returns to the town where her father owned the restaurant and meets her childhood friends again. On the anniversary of the tragedy they find a way inside the abandoned pizzeria, and the four animatronic mascots that once entertained children have changed in ways nobody can explain.
Rating coming soonCarolyn Dawson spent her childhood holidays on Greycliff, the Cornish island owned by the rich and powerful Brandon family, and never forgot its heir. Years later she returns as his bride and the mistress of Greycliff Manor, and finds that the rest of the household regards her as an intruder who has married above her place.
Rating coming soonLindsay Phillips has spent years refusing to listen to the voice she calls Vermilion, which tells her to go to Arizona. Everything she wants is there, along with her father's murderer, the dragon-headed cane she remembers from childhood, and the man she loved at seventeen who married her half-sister. Going back means putting herself within reach of all three.
Rating coming soonLauren Moore is left penniless when her mother dies, and her aunt's invitation to Falconridge seems too fortunate to be true. She is drawn to her arrogant cousin by marriage, and the house by the sea is full of locked rooms, strange happenings and a housekeeper who tells her plainly that she does not belong.
Rating coming soonOn the northern shore of Sicily, the castle of the Mazzini family stands half in ruins, and its southern wing has been shut up for years. The Marquis's daughters, Emilia and Julia, live there in the shadow of a father who has returned to rule them. Julia loves a count, her father has promised her to somebody else, and the abandoned rooms are not as empty as they should be.
Rating coming soonBella Swan is about to turn eighteen, and being in love with a vampire means that every ordinary accident is dangerous. When a paper cut at her birthday party sets off an attack on her, Edward Cullen decides to leave Forks, and his family leaves with him. Bella gets through the winter with Jacob Black, whose own family has a secret, and then a telephone call changes everything.
Rating coming soonLestat de Lioncourt has spent decades asleep under a New Orleans house, and he wakes in the 1980s to find that the vampire Louis has published an account of their lives together. His answer is to write his own version, and to form a rock band and play to crowds. He wants the attention of the vampires who have been avoiding him for centuries.
Rating coming soonA girl wakes in a cave with burns, a head injury and no memory of anything, and finds that she can heal and that she is hungry in a way food will not fix. She looks about ten years old. She is in fact fifty-three, a member of a nocturnal species that lives on human blood, and the people who destroyed her family are still looking for her.
Rating coming soonA vampire of the far north wakes after centuries frozen in ice and goes looking for the one who made him. What he finds instead is Marius de Romanus, who agrees to tell the story of his two thousand years. Marius begins as a Roman patrician taken by druids and ends as the keeper of two sleeping vampires on whom every other vampire's existence depends.
Rating coming soonRose Hathaway is in her final year at St. Vladimir's Academy, training to become a guardian to her best friend, the vampire princess Lissa. She is still not herself after the death of a friend on a training exercise, and she is seeing things that should not be there. Then the academy is attacked, and the person she loves is taken.
Rating coming soonAn unnamed narrator rides to the decaying mansion of a friend from childhood, summoned by a letter that describes an illness and asks for help. Roderick Usher is pale, agitated and hypersensitive, his sister Madeline is wasting away, and the house itself seems to hold a mood of its own. The narrator stays, and what he is asked to help with is a burial.
Rating coming soonIn London, a wealthy young gentleman named Aubrey meets Lord Ruthven, a nobleman with a curious manner and a habit of attaching himself to people who are about to come to harm. Aubrey agrees to travel through Europe with him. He learns what Ruthven is slowly, and then has to watch what the discovery costs the people he loves.
Rating coming soonBeaufort Swan leaves Arizona to live with his father in the small, wet town of Forks, Washington, and finds the people at his new school strange and the Cullens stranger still. He is drawn to Edythe Cullen, who seems to find his presence intolerable and who is not what she appears to be. The novel retells Twilight with every character's gender changed.
Rating coming soonBack at the House of Night for another term, Zoey Redbird is trying to lead her circle of student priestesses while keeping a secret that would destroy her friends. Neferet, the school's High Priestess, has been bringing back the students who died during their change and making them into something obedient. One of them was Zoey's best friend.
Rating coming soonMona Mayfair, a young witch and heir to a New Orleans family, is dying at Blackwood Farm of an illness the doctors cannot name. She and the vampire Quinn Blackwood are in love. Lestat, who has decided that he wants to be good, arrives in the middle of it and is asked by the family's guardian spirit to do something he has no intention of doing.
Rating coming soonLouis de Pointe du Lac is being haunted by the ghost of Claudia, the daughter he made and lost, and he wants to speak to her. He and the vampire David Talbot ask Merrick Mayfair, a witch of a New Orleans family, to call her up. Merrick is also an old colleague of David's, and she has more reasons than either of them to want the dead disturbed.
Rating coming soonSimon Snow won. He defeated the great enemy of the magical world, he lost his powers doing it and he is now living with his boyfriend Baz, and none of it has made him happy. When his best friend suggests a road trip to America, he goes along. The plan is a holiday, and what they find instead is a country full of vampires, dragons and worse.
Rating coming soonDiana Bishop, a historian and a witch, and Matthew Clairmont, a vampire and a scientist, return from the sixteenth century to find that a member of their family has been murdered. They need the missing pages of an old manuscript, and they need the rules that forbid marriage between witches and vampires to be broken. Both are dangerous.
Rating coming soonA man who has always loved animals describes the change in himself that drink brought on, and the black cat he loved best before he began to hurt it. He tells the story from the day before his death, and he does not ask the reader to forgive him. What he wants is for the whole thing to be understood exactly as it happened.
Rating coming soonA plague called the Red Death is killing half the people in the country, and Prince Prospero has decided not to watch. He retreats into an abbey with a thousand friends, seals the doors and fills the rooms with music and food. Months later he holds a masked ball in seven rooms of different colours, and a guest arrives who was not invited.
Rating coming soonAlisa is five thousand years old and has been a vampire for most of that time. She arrives in Los Angeles to find out who has been asking questions about her, takes the identity of a high-school student called Lara Adams, and makes friends with two boys for reasons that are not entirely honest. Then she goes looking for the men who tried to trap her.
Rating coming soonBeatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed in the upheaval after the Mexican War of Independence, and when Don Rodolfo Solorzano proposes she accepts, ignoring what people say about his first wife's death, because his estate offers her a home. Hacienda San Isidro is not the refuge she imagined. When her husband returns to the capital she is left in the house with his sister.
Rating coming soonThe Mortal War is over, and Clary Fray is back in New York, training to be a Shadowhunter and looking forward to a period with nothing worse in it than her mother's wedding. Then Shadowhunters begin to be murdered, and the killings are arranged to make the Downworlders and the Shadowhunters blame each other. Her friend Simon, newly a vampire, cannot help her.
Rating coming soonThe winter of 1857 has left Abner Marsh with one working steamboat and a reputation he cannot afford. So when a soft-spoken stranger named Joshua York offers to pay for a boat finer and faster than anything on the Mississippi, Marsh takes the money. York asks only that his business on the river be nobody else's concern.
Rating coming soonJason is fifteen and has never fitted in at home or at school, and his only comfort is a band called Lost Souls. Then he reads the note that was left with him as a baby and works out that his father was a vampire. He renames himself Nothing, runs away from home, and is picked up on the road by three beautiful strangers who know what he is.
Rating coming soonA scientific expedition at the South Pole digs out something that has been frozen for centuries and carries it back into the camp. The thing is intelligent, and it can take the shape and the memories of any living creature it kills. Before the men understand what they have brought inside with them, they cannot be sure which of them is still human.
Rating coming soonClarice Starling is still an FBI trainee when the head of the bureau's profiling unit sends her to a hospital for the criminally insane with a questionnaire. Her assignment is to interview Dr Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist who ate several of his patients. The bureau wants his help with a killer called Buffalo Bill, and Lecter is willing to talk, but only in exchange for something.
Rating coming soonIn 1978, in a suburb outside Pittsburgh, a seventeen-year-old called Arnie Cunningham stops on his way home to look at a dilapidated 1958 Plymouth Fury sitting on a neglected lawn. The car is for sale, and the old man selling it has a bad back, a sour temper and a name for it: Christine. Arnie's best friend tells him not to buy it.
Rating coming soonRae Seddon, known to everyone as Sunshine, works in her family's bakery and wants a quiet evening by the lake. The vampires who take her are not interested in quiet. She wakes chained in the ballroom of an abandoned mansion, dressed in a long red gown, with a stranger chained in the same room who is also a vampire and is being left there to starve.
Rating coming soonThe plague has already happened, and the survivors who can still organise are following a girl called Amy. Their target is the virals: the twelve original creatures, each of whom presides over a hive of its own. A raid on all twelve at once is what the book is building towards, and the weapon the survivors are counting on is a woman who is no longer entirely human.
Rating coming soonSookie Stackhouse's boyfriend has been distant, and then he disappears while working on a task for the queen of the Louisiana vampires. His friends tell her he had been in Mississippi, summoned by the vampire who made him. Sookie drives to Jackson to find him, with a werewolf for a bodyguard and instructions she does not entirely trust.
Rating coming soonSookie Stackhouse is recovering from the torture she was put through during the short war with the fairies, and from the deaths it cost her, and she is not in a forgiving mood. Her relationship with the vampire Eric Northman is the best thing in her life, and it has made him a problem for the new vampire king. Then Eric's maker arrives with a guest.
Rating coming soonThe vampires came out in public a few years ago, and now the werewolves and shape-shifters have decided to do the same. In Bon Temps, Louisiana, the announcement goes better than anyone expected, at least at first. Then the body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie Stackhouse works, and the town's new arrangements are tested.
Rating coming soonLara Calladine is an expert on ice caves, and the cave she keeps looking for is the one she was kept in as a child, where her father and her great-grandfather used her as a source of blood. Her aunts helped her escape, and the search now is to bring them out too. The trail leads her to the Carpathian mountains, and to a man who has come there to die.
Rating coming soonThe twelve original creatures have been destroyed, along with most of the viral population they created, and the survivors on the continent are beginning to build something. Their relief lasts one generation. Two survivors go looking for the truth about what remains: one hunting the creature that started everything, the other sailing in search of the minefields that were supposed to keep the infection contained.
Rating coming soonA woman whose physician husband has taken a country house for the summer is installed in an upstairs nursery, and told to rest. She is forbidden to work and forbidden to write, so she writes anyway, in secret, and the entries record her days in the room and the pattern in the wallpaper she has begun to study more closely than anything else in the house.
Rating coming soonThe American minister to the Court of St James's buys a country house in England and is warned by the man selling it that Canterville Chase is haunted. Mr Otis says he will take the furniture as well as the ghost at a valuation, and moves in with his wife, his eldest son and his twin boys. The ghost, who has been frightening people there for three hundred years, has never met a family like this one.
Rating coming soonTwenty-seven years ago the sun failed, and since then vampires have taken the world and rebuilt it in their own image. The last living vampire hunter is a prisoner awaiting execution for killing a king, and the empress has not finished with him. She sends her historian to take down the story of his life, and he tells it.
Rating coming soonLestat is in one of his long sleeps, so the vampire David Talbot asks Armand to tell him the story of his life. Armand begins in the Kyivan Rus in the fifteenth century, where he was called Andrei and painted icons in a monastery. Slave traders take him out of that life and carry him to Constantinople and then to Venice, and what happens in Venice makes him what he is.
Rating coming soonZoey has come back from the Otherworld and is on the Isle of Skye, where the queen wants her to stay and learn what she is capable of. In Tulsa, Neferet has been cleared by the vampire council and returned to her position at the House of Night, and she has a list. Stevie Rae is holding things together at school while working out what her connection to Rephaim means.
Rating coming soonMartie Rhodes drives her friend Susan to appointments with a psychologist, because Susan's agoraphobia makes it impossible for her to go alone. Martie's husband Dusty is trying to keep his brother Skeet, just out of rehabilitation, out of trouble. Then Martie develops a terror of her own reflection, and the fear starts to spread to the rest of her life.
Rating coming soonIris Catherine Villiers grows up at Belerion Hall on the coast of Cornwall, in the gardens and on the cliffs, under the judgement of her grandfather and the taunts of her governess. The old gardener, Marsh, warns her away from the ruins above the sea and tells her never to say a prayer at their door or make a vow by the Laughing Maiden stone. She is unhappy, and she has a brother she loves.
The horror shelf runs from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century gothic novels that invented the furniture - the castle, the diary, the thing that will not stay buried - through the twentieth-century paperbacks and film-era classics to books published this decade. Ghost stories and haunted houses sit beside vampire and possession novels, cosmic and weird fiction, folk horror, body horror and quiet psychological dread.
A book lands here when it is built to unsettle: a haunting, a monster, a curse, an appetite, or a wrongness the characters cannot name. Crime and horror overlap at the edges, and a thriller that stays on the crime side of the line sits on the mystery shelf instead. Cross-over titles that genuinely belong on both shelves reuse one page and are listed on each.
The love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.
676 booksPrimary genreEpic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.
685 booksPrimary genreGeneration ships, dying empires, robots with opinions and one very unlucky astronaut.
536 booksPrimary genreDetectives, spies, locked rooms and the people who lie to the police.
599 booksPrimary genreCathedrals, courts, trenches and revolutions, all of it set in a past that is doing the work.
580 booksPrimary genreNovels where the prose carries the book: families, cities, memory and the modern self.
575 booksPrimary genreShipwrecks, expeditions, chases, frontiers and people who should have turned back.
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