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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Silver Nitrate
Helping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristan start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city.
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Deliver Me
A young Missouri woman contends with her past and future when a childhood friend moves in upstairs. (Kirkus)
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Never Whistle at Night
Celebrating Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, these twenty-seven spinetingling stories from best-selling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, intricate family legacies, desperate deeds and unsettling acts of revenge.
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Out There Screaming
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates an anthology of all-new stories of black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.
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The Shoemaker's Magician
When her husband, a homicide detective, discovers an obscure movie poster pinned on a mutilated corpse, Paloma knows the only person who can help solve this mystery is Grand, America's most beloved horror host, but the closer she gets to him, the more the body count rises, threatening all she holds dear.
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A Light Most Hateful
A runaway working a dead-end job in Pennsylvania must fight to return home when an intense, otherworldly summer storm arrives bringing a mind-bending monster that enslaves the residents in the new novel by the author of Queen of Teeth.
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Apparitions
After years of imprisonment, a deaf teen escapes his father's basement. Bloody, alone, and without language, he stumbles through the Saskatchewan prairie until he lands in an isolated psychiatric facility, where he meets Felix, another deaf teen, who eagerly teaches him sign language. As the two grow closer, the ambitious and cunning Felix begins to see his pupil less like an individual and more like a mind that he can mold in his own image, and as his ego grows, his plans to break free from the facility become increasingly more dangerous. (Publisher's description)
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Tell Me I'm Worthless
Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice's life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, Alice knows she must go. Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own.
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Monstrilio
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate.
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Chlorine
A debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale and is told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies.
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