The best horror books of 2024
Readers, good news: we are in a golden age of horror. The year 2024 was filled with incredible – and incredibly diverse horror novels – novels and collections. He brought back long -awaited horror legends and daring introductions of new voices to the genre; presented a range of subjects, from cosmic horror to haunted houses; And explored a variety of cultures, with deep dives in Latin America, highlights Korean Americans and more.
With so many large versions, the selection of only 10 pounds for this column was a difficult task. But of all the new fantastic horror books published this year, these titles have stood out.
By Laird Barron
Stunning. This is what I called “not a grain of light from Barron” in my review this year. The collection is beautifully written, intensely creative, tirelessly and extremely violent. It is a perfect mixture of horror and crime that takes readers in a dark and unforgettable journey in both human and supernatural darkness.
By Stephen King
Do you want another incredible collection? Look no further than King’s latest book. He is in good shape here, offering more of what made him the king of horror: frightening encounters, supernatural chaos, a lot of violence and a unique obscurity brand of King. This stellar book is as entertaining as it is frightening.
By Monika Kim
This impressive first novel presents an American Korean family account of engaging and skillfully tackles Asian fetishization, all in a delightfully bloody story on the emerging obsession of a young woman to eat human eyes. “Eyes are the best part” is as emotional as brutal, and proves that Kim is an author to watch.
By Layla Martínez
The excellent novel by Martínez, which was translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott, follows a woman and her mother who live in a malicious house. Isolation is a silent character here, just like trauma. The combination of real and paranormal monstrosities, as well as the relentless atmosphere of the novel, make it a deeply disturbing book that concerns as much a haunted house as haunted people.
By Rivers Salomon
Solomon’s novel is adopting a new approach to the “nasty home” trope. The novel represents about three sisters forced to return to their haunted childhood after the mysterious death of their parents. Solomon puts the malicious building on the rear seat and rather focuses on a plethora of subjects such as depression, maternity, sexuality, sex, trauma and grow in a hostile environment with a strong and demanding mother. The result is a wonderfully surprising haunted house story which is also a strong excavation of human problems that afflict us all.
Edited by Sarah Coolidge
This collection presents 10 frightening works of 10 of the best writers of “Narrativa de Lo Inualine” – story of the unusual. Memorable entries include a story about the exploration of an old house of an fascist and a drama of murder and madness with a twist ending for ages. With its propagation of authors and stories, “through the night like a snake” offers a radical look at what is happening in the rich world of Latin American speculative fiction.
By JS Breukelaar
“Remedy” is a brutal and claustrophobic novel which explores the existential crisis of a group of people violently taken from their lives by a monster and stuck in a mirror world with new identities. The story is full of shady questions and characters, but what stands out is Breukelaar’s poetic prose, which carries this emotional and strange book.
By Eliza Clark
These stories come to you like the best punches of a large boxer: fast, hard, with devastating precision and strange angles. Clark demonstrates a remarkable range, with a story of body horror, a thread on an immortal being prevailing on a postapocalyptic world, a chronicle of human cruelty and more, which makes it a collection which is as impossible to categorize as to deposit .
By Stuart Neville
The last of Neville is a new novel of monsters full of action on a mother and a daughter with a terrible secret, on the run of an obsessed and ruined detective. But to his tender heart, the book actually concerns family and love. It is a great novel that takes the rapid rhythm and the tension of police fiction and injects it with the explosiveness of a great story of vampire.
By Leslie J. Anderson
This novel follows a journalist who is sent to a small town to bring back a curious rumor and ends up discovering a much more complex and terrifying world instead. What makes “UNMOTHERS” so special is its frightening atmosphere. There are animals trapped in the walls, horses with human eyes, strange rituals. If you like to get lost in a scary small town, this exceptional novel is the one you will not want to miss.
