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👻 some haunting tales to fill your tbr 👻

These tales will haunt you with haunted houses and ghosts a plenty.

ash.reads.horror
Feb 22

18 Books

Five Horror Subgenres to explore this Summer

While we're all withering under the sun's rays, I've put together a list of five different horror subgenres with some book recs in each that are perfect to read this time of year.

Folk Horror

Folk horror is perfect for almost any time of the year! With rituals and folklore a plenty, these books will suck you into their pages.

• Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss -- A family reenacts the Iron Age deep in the wilderness where the past begins to bleed into the present.
• Monumental by Adam L.G. Nevill -- A group of kayakers enter forbidden land and stumble upon an ancient sacrificial ritual.
• Withered Hill by David Barnett -- A woman wakes up in a small village with no memory of how she got there and finds out quickly that she can't leave.
• Double Walker by Michael W. Conrad -- A couple vacationing in Scotland experience a tragedy while on a hike in this chilling graphic novel.
• The Residents Of Honeysuckle Cottage by Elizabeth Davidson -- A couple's fresh start to a remote cottage just outside a small village slowly turns into a nightmare.

Slasher

My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones -- A teenage girl obsessed with slashers believes one is starting up in her small town.

• Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley -- A wellness retreat turns into a deadly slasher.
• Under The Blade by Matt Serafini -- A woman who survived a summer camp massacre finally returns home after two decades on the anniversary of the slaying, awakening true evil once more.
• Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning -- A canceled sitcom star goes to an adult summer camp and gets trapped in the middle of a slasher.
• You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron -- A scare camp where guests pay to be scared turns into a real-life horror movie.

Ocean

The ocean will cool you down as the summer sun beats on. Just don't let it devour you like these novels...

• Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant -- A research crew investigating the last location of a ship discovers deadly sirens.
• The Deep by Nick Cutter -- A man travels to the bottom of the Marianas Trench to a research facility to check on the scientists investigating the possible cure of a worldwide disease.
• Whalefall by Daniel Kraus -- A man dives into the ocean to search for his father's bones and gets swallowed by a whale.
• The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager -- A group of academics in an ancient sea cult get trapped in an underwater cave.
• Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield -- A woman comes back changed after being trapped deep underwater in a submarine for months.

Theme Park

Take a trip to an amusement park this summer and have a chilling time.

• Hide by Kiersten White -- A competition for a sum of money playing the game of hide and seek turns deadly if found.
• FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven -- A theme park gets hit by a hurricane and the employees trapped in the park quickly turn on one another.
• Shock Waves by Matt Kurtz -- An explosion near a theme park releases monsters upon the park.
• Ride or Die by Delilah S. Dawson -- A girl trying to impress a popular group of girls winds up in the abandoned part of an amusement park where she might ride to her death.
• A Cold Night For Alligators by Viggy Parr Hampton -- A determined CDC epidemiologist goes rogue to tackle a mysterious outbreak in Savannah, only to find himself entangled with a pair of urban explorers.

Survival

Fight for your life on your trip/vacation.

• The Ruins by Scott Smith -- A group of friends get trapped on ancient ruins and must fight for their lives.
• This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer -- A woman and her team discover an untouched cliff face and make it their mission to be the first to climb it.
• The Anomaly by Michael Rutger -- A TV show that focuses on hidden mysteries try to find a hidden cavern only to find it and get trapped within it.
• The Hunger by Alma Katsu -- A retelling of the fateful Donner Party.
• The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn -- A group of friends get trapped in a cabin by both a snowstorm and deadly creatures.