20 Favourite Horror Books of 2021
Happy New Year!
2021 was a year of ups and downs and that goes for my reading too. But I ended up reading 145 books, most of them being horror. So I decided to compile my favourite horror books of the year! A huge thank you to the authors and publishers for the review copies.
Here are my favourite horror books of 2021. If you haven’t read them yet, I hope you’ll consider adding them to your list!
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NOVELS
The Bright Lands by John Fram | Review
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi | Review
Cunning Folk by Adam Nevill | Review
The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling | Review
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist | Review
My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones | Review
The Occultists by Polly Schattel | Review
Penpal by Dathan Auerbach | Review
Rules For Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall | Review
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims | Review
NOVELLAS
The Cockroach King by Andrew Cull | Review
The Dark Side of the Room by Tyler Jones | Review
The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper | Review
We Need To Do Something by Max Booth III | Review
SHORT STORIES/ANTHOLOGIES
Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition by Mike Thorn | Review
Human Tenderloin by Craig Wallwork | Review
The Gulp by Alan Baxter | Review
The Abyss Within: 13 Chilling Tales To Keep You Up At Night | Review
ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare | Review
What One Wouldn’t Do: An Anthology on the Lengths One Might Go To | Review
What are your favourite books of 2021? Let me know in the comments below!
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6 Comments
Priscilla Bettis
Good lists! I really enjoyed This Thing Between Us by Moreno, Nightbitch by Yoder, Tidepool by Willson, Things Have Gotten Worse by LaRocca, In the Garden of Spite by Bruce, Malinae by Schlossberg, The Last House on Needless Street by Ward, The Death of Jane Lawrence by Starling, and ESPECIALLY The Radiator Boy and the Holly Country by Komor. Plus a not-2021 book that I read this year that I loved: Dead Inside by Morrison.
I gotta say, I really enjoy my 2021 reads!
Read By Dusk
Thank you! That sounds amazing, I have those books on my list (especially excited for This Thing Between Us and In The Garden of Spite) so I’m looking forward to reading them. Happy reading in 2022!
Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy
Come With Me was probably my favorite book of the year😁 And I loved The Gulp. Alan Baxter just announced another Gulp book, I’m so excited!
Read By Dusk
I loved Come With Me! And I just heard about the new Gulp book too, so excited 😀
Terry C. Vasquez @ wikimanagerzone
A List of some great collection ! I loved the book “Rules For Vanishing” The story is excellent, and the book has a truly atmospheric feel to it. As you read, you get the impression that you are in a strange, dark, and frightening place, and you can clearly see what is happening. Every chapter also leaves you with the feeling that doom is just around the corner. The novel contains a lot of mystery, and at times it feels like the reader is trying to solve the riddle by piecing it all together.
Read By Dusk
Thank you! Agreed, Rules For Vanishing is a fantastic book with a haunting atmosphere, I’m glad you enjoyed it!