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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How to Sell A Haunted House
Forced to return to the small Southern town where she grew up to sell her late parents' house, Louise discovers that her and her brother's old grudges pale in comparison to the terror that still lurks within its walls.
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Natural Beauty
Giving up her future as a pianist to take care of her parents, the narrator starts working at a high-end beauty and wellness store in NYC, which affords her entry into a new world of privilege where she discovers, beneath the fancy creams and tinctures, lies a terrible truth threatening to consume her.
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Bad Cree
A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers.
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Don't Fear the Reaper
Returning to rural Proofrock after being released from prison, Jade Daniels runs afoul of a convicted serial killer, who escapes from a prison transfer in a blizzard, in the second novel of the series following My Heart is a Chainsaw.
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Night's Edge
Tired of being her mother’s keeper, 20-something Mia, longing for a life where she doesn’t have to worry about anyone discovering their terrible secret, meets a rebellious musician who gives her a way to leave home, which might be her only chance of getting out alive.
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The Salt Grows Heavy
In this twisting and pitch-black horror tale from Khaw, a voiceless mermaid plucked from the ocean ventures into a snowy forest alongside a melancholy plague doctor. (Publishers Weekly)
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A House With Good Bones
Warned by her brother that their mother seems "off," Sam visits and discovers a once-cozy home with sterile white walls, a her mom a jumpy, nervous wreck and a jar of teeth hidden in the rosebushes.
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Everything the Darkness Eats
After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley.
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Lone Women
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the "lone women" taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
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Sisters of the Lost Nation
As girls start going missing amidst strange and sinister happenings in the reservation's casino, including her little sister, Anna Horn, an outcast struggling with her place on the rez, must confront demons old and new as she hunts for answers.
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