Horror 2023
From creepy to eerie to downright terrifying, here's a diverse selection of recently published horror fiction recommended by our librarians. Descriptions from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Updated February 2024)
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Vampires of El Norte
When the US attacks Mexico in 1846, Nena, a healer striving to prove her worth, and Néstor, a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros, find their reunion overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.
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Nestlings
When they win an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan’s most revered buildings, new parents Ana and Reid get the lucky break they’ve been waiting for until disturbing events occur, unease and paranoia set in and needle-like bite marks appear on the baby.
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The Haunting of Alejandra
Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican Legend, and must summon everything she's inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
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What Kind of Mother
In a modern Southern Gothic horror, a palm reader is swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won't see coming.
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Wild Spaces
An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain.
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The Handyman Method
When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house.
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The Reformatory
A novel set in Jim Crow Florida follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
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Our Share of Night
In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near IguazuÌ Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals.
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Boys in the Valley
An ancient evil is released upon the residents at St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys when a group of men with occult symbols on their flesh show up at their door one stormy night.
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Piñata
Returning to New York with her daughters after supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey in Mexico, Carmen Sanchez soon discovers that something evil and unexplainable has followed them home--and it may already be too late to escape what's been awakened.
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