Recs if you like Salvaged...

are you sick of being recommended stephen king when you ask for a horror novel? have you picked up a book expected to be scared, but the scariest thing about it was a woman being needlessly tormented and gaslit? have you read 4627473 books about a man in a haunted house and need something different?

if so, this list is for you :)

a masterlist of horror by anyone who isn't a straight cis white man, started in 2022 and brought to pb in 2026.

The stars are beautiful, but the void is hungry. These are stories of cosmic dread, alien mysteries, and the terrifying unknown lurking beyond our own planet.

All horrors lurking in the deep space

Books in which mushrooms take center stage

By no means exhaustive. Recommendations and suggestions welcome!

Scared of the dark? Scared that whatever is in the dark will take the one you love. For horror books that feature enough romance to raise the stakes. There’s no promise of HEA. Not erotica, but can be explicit. Not monster romance on premise, but what if the person you’re falling in love with is what goes bump in the night.

Please keep vampires on a different shelf.