Underrated Horror Books

The Dead

by Mark E. Rogers

Whispers

by Dean Koontz

"A MASTER STORYTELLER...his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns."—The San Diego Union-Tribune For thirty-five years, Bruno Frye has lived in the shadow of the mother who made his...

Necroscope

by Lumley, Brian

Penned by British author, Brain Lumley, this series of horror novels blur the line between fantasy and reality. First and foremost a vampire novel, Necroscope follows the story of man who can communicate with the dead...

Daemonic

by Stephen Laws

The Ceremoniesn

by T.E.D. Klein

Floating Dragon

by Straub, Peter

The seemingly typical commuter town of Hampstead suffers from a mysterious horror.

Seeing Red

by David J. Schow

Son of the Endless Night

by John Farris

The Seance

by John Harwood

A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with s...

Eat the Dark

by Joe Schreiber

"A harrowing, up-all-night read with delicious scares at every turn. Joe Schreiber knows just what terrifies us, and his masterly skills are on full display."--Tess Gerritsen, author of The Bone Garden"One part noir, one...

Infected

by Scott Sigler

Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government's shroud of se...

A Clockwork Orange

by Burgess, Anthony

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 cl...

Neverwhere

by Gaiman, Neil

Most (all?) of Gaiman’s works are urban fantasy. The crowd favorite is Neverwhere, which is an interesting take on the whole multiverse conceit found in science fiction. The premise is that people can fall through the cr...

The Andromeda Strain

by Crichton, Michael

The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. It is written as a report documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investig...

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

Kriminalroman. Miamipolitiet og politiofficer Deborah Morgan prøver at finde en seriemorder. Deborah håber sagen vil fremme hendes karrieremuligheder, og hun får hjælp af sin bror Dexter, der arbejder for politiet. Han e...

The Passage

by Cronin, Justin

The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. The Passage debuted at #3 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list, and remained...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

by Seth Grahame-Smith

From the creator of the international bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes the untold (vampire-hunting) history of the Great US Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.Through the extraordinary discovery of Abraham Linc...

Sphere

by Crichton, Michael

Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall. The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists...

Blindness

by José Saramago

Shutter Island

by Dennis Lehane

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel...

The Divine Comedy: Inferno

by Dante Alighieri