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101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

by endless_tbr_list

This list consists of the titles from Sadie Hartmann's book 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, plus the first recommended read for each of the Author Spotlights.

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Annihilation

Baby Teeth

The Ancestor

A Place for Sinners

Annihilation

Baby Teeth

Cults

Books where cults are a big part of the story. Mostly fictional horror books 🤡

Something in the Walls

Within These Walls

Revelator

Last Days

Something in the Walls

Within These Walls

Cult Reads (literally)

by abookishweekend

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Hollywood Park

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Hollywood Park

Cannibal Council

by theelizabethjoy

Not all of these books will have cannibalism... but there is a non-zero chance at least 1% will.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

This Wretched Valley

56 Days

The Ritual

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

This Wretched Valley

hills older than humans

by kayleighinthemargins

books with a focus on the appalachian mountains or scottish highlands and their folklore

The Bog Wife

Nowhere

The Old Gods Waken (Silver John, #1)

The Winter Folk

The Bog Wife

Nowhere

101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

by moodreading4eva

List of horror books (mostly 2000-2023) compiled by Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Mexican Gothic

Zone One

Broken Monsters

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Mexican Gothic

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