50 Book Challenge 2026 - Horror!

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50 Book Challenge 2026 - Horror!

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Edited: Dec 21, 12:35 am

Episode Thirteen by Craig Dilouie
Mary by Nat Cassidy
The Dark Horse Book of Horror by Mike Richardson
Evil in Me by Brom
The Night House by Jo Nesbo
Autumn Gothic by Brian Bowyer
*Autumnal by Daniel Kraus
Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda
The Copper Man by Debra Castaneda
Charred Remains and Getaway by Evan Bond
It Rides a Pale Horse by Andy Marino
The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates
The Witch in the Well by Camilla Bruce
The Return: A Supernatural Masterpiece by Walter De la Mare
In A Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
1922 by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
The Last House on Needless Street
Looking Glass Sound by Catrona Ward
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
The Fervor by Alma Katsu
Deserter by Junji Ito
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
Horseman by Christina Henry
The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel by Alyssa Palombo
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kröger
The Frighteners by Peter Laws
Behind the Horror by Dr. Lee Mellor
The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Omen by David Seltzer
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
It by Stephen King
The Terror by Dan Simmons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
The Queen by Nick Cutter
The Troop by Nick Cutter
S by Koji Suzuki
*Edge by Koji Suzuki
Blood on Satan's Claw by Robert Wynne-Simmons
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
Tomie by Junji Ito
Shiver by Junji Ito
Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear by Peter Haining
Fantastic Tales by I. U. Tarchetti
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
Krampus by Brom
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
Damnable Tales by Richard Wells
Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews
Stitches by Hirokatsu Kihara
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
The Drift by C.J. Tudor
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Remina and Sensor by Junji Ito
Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
A Wretched Little Book of Poems by Allen Isom
Open the Casket by J.N. Eagles
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies by Clark Ashton Smith
Bird Box: A Novel by Josh Malerman
Dark Resurrection by John A Karr
Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gómez
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
Truth of the Shadows by Slade Templeton
Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
Stirring the Sheets by Chad Lutzke
Conjuring the Witch by Jessica Leonard
A Natural History of Hell: Stories by Jeffrey Ford
The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones
Before You Wake: Three Horrors by Adam Nevill
Before You Sleep: Three Horrors by Adam Nevill

Need to Buy or Borrow
*A History of Fear by Luke Dumas
*The Reddening by Adam Nevill
*The Hunger by Alma Katsu
*The Shards by Brett Easton Ellis
*Last Days by Adam Nevill
*Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian
*Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk
*Hunted by Darcy Coates
*The Nightmare Man by J. H. Markert
*The Woman of Weird Tales by Greye La Spina
*Celtic Weird by Johnny Mains
*No Longer Human by Junji Ito
*Tombs by Junji Ito
*Alley by Junji Ito
*Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi
*Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
*Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi
*Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
*The Weejee Man by NP Cunniffe
*The Book of Witching by C. J. Cooke
*A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons
*Till We Become Monsters by Amanda Headlee
*The Bedmakers by Chad Lutzke
*All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill
*The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
*Withered Hill by David Barnett
*The Vegetarian by Han Kang
*Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom
*Out Behind the Barn by Chad Lutzke
*The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
*The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel by Giorgio De Maria
*Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
*Nod by Adrian Barnes
*Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown
*Tales of the Damned by Matt Ralphs
*The Bayou by Arden Powell
*Eutopia by David Nickle
*Gilded Needles by Michael McDowell
*The Ravenous by Amy Lukavics
*Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson
*Uncanny: The Origins of Fear by Junji Ito