The horror genre is one typically dominated by male writers, but, as in most areas today women are hot on their heels!  Check out these great horror novels just in time for Halloween. Some are classic, some are new, but all are written by scream queens!  

 

The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

Horseman by Christina Henry

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Invited by Jennifer McMahon 

It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Parasite by Mira Grant

The Queen of the Cicadas by V. Castro

The Return by Rachel Harrison

We Hear Voices by Evie Green

The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates

Wonderland by Zoje Stage

Published by on October 22, 2021
Last Modified November 23, 2024