Most Popular Horror Books of the 2020s

Shroud

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Horror · Science Fiction

February 27, 2025

Possession

Chris Kelso

Horror · Movie

August 1, 2025

Hot Singles In Your Area

Jordan Shiveley

Horror · Psychological Horror · Adult

February 4, 2024

Tales from the Rain

Mark Howard Jones

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

February 6, 2024

Red Space #1

Paradise-1

David Wellington

Horror · Science Fiction

April 4, 2023

British Library Tales of the Weird #29

The Ghost Slayers

Mike Ashley

Horror · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction

March 24, 2022

Occult Detective Magazine #7

Occult Detective Magazine #7

John Linwood Grant, Dave Brzeski

Horror · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery

May 30, 2020

The Last Kids on Earth #6

The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road

Max Brallier

Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult

September 15, 2020

The Last Kids on Earth #10

The Last Kids on Earth and the Destructor's Lair

Max Brallier

Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult

November 4, 2025

The Last Kids on Earth #7

The Last Kids on Earth and the Doomsday Race

Max Brallier

Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult

September 14, 2021

Star-Spawned

Mark Howard Jones

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

March 29, 2022

The Devils #1

The Devils

Joe Abercrombie

Fantasy · Horror · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy

May 13, 2025

Lord of the Flies

William Golding, Aimée de Jongh

Horror · Graphic Novels · Movie · Mainstream

September 9, 2024

Pendergast #23

Pendergast: The Beginning

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

January 27, 2026

The Drift

C. J. Tudor

Horror · Thriller

January 31, 2023

Holly Gibney #3

Holly

Stephen King

Horror

September 5, 2023

Afterglow

Matti Järvinen, Sara Norja

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Anthology · Poetry

June 26, 2025

Nora Kelly #3

Diablo Mesa

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

February 15, 2022

Sworn Soldier #1

What Moves the Dead

T. Kingfisher

Fantasy · Horror · Novella

July 12, 2022

Nora Kelly #2

The Scorpion's Tail

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

January 12, 2021

Once Was Willem

M.R. Carey

Fantasy · Horror · Alternate History

March 4, 2025

The Library at Hellebore

Cassandra Khaw

Horror · Magical Realism

July 22, 2025

The Starving Saints

Caitlin Starling

Fantasy · Horror · Historical Fiction

May 20, 2025

Nora Kelly #5

Badlands

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

June 3, 2025

Of the Flesh

Uncredited

Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Short Stories

October 10, 2024

A Haunting in the Arctic

C. J. Cooke

Horror · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Mermaid · Psychological Horror

February 27, 2024

Custodians of the Cosmos #3

The Desolation War

Tim Waggoner

Fantasy · Horror · Urban Fantasy

October 22, 2024

Custodians of the Cosmos #2

Book of Madness

Tim Waggoner

Fantasy · Horror · Urban Fantasy

July 30, 2024

Custodians of the Cosmos #1

The Atrocity Engine

Tim Waggoner

Fantasy · Horror · Urban Fantasy

April 30, 2024

A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. Kingfisher

Fantasy · Horror · Retellings

August 6, 2024

Don't Let the Forest In

CG Drews

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Young Adult

October 29, 2024

Guardian: Zhen Hun #1

Guardian: Zhen Hun Novel Vol.1

Priest

Horror · Ancient Mythology · LGBTQ+ · Paranormal Fantasy · Paranormal Romance

August 29, 2023

Nora Kelly #4

Dead Mountain

Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Horror · Mystery · Thriller

August 22, 2023

The Shepherd King #2

Two Twisted Crowns

Rachel Gillig

Fantasy · Horror · Young Adult

October 17, 2023

Keep It In the Family

John Marrs

Horror · Psychological Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

October 18, 2022

The Last Storm

Tim Lebbon

Horror · Science Fiction · Dystopia

July 5, 2022