TOP TEN FAVORITE HORROR BOOKS || Escape the Readathon Recs || horror book recommendations | booktube

In this video, I talk about my all time favorite horror books, including slashers, sci fi horror, grief horror, demon horror, and psychological horror.

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[literarylove]

I enjoyed The Final Girl Support Group, too.

[Sarah.reads.sometimes]

I’ve only read My Best Friend’s Exorcism out of these but I LOVED it. I binged it around Halloween last year right after finishing The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires & couldn’t get enough of either of them. I’m really excited for How to Sell a Haunted House 😅 I’m also really interested in Blanky & Hallow’s Hill, both of which I have out from my library at the moment 😊👻

[ElizabethSagewood]

Gallows Hill! Such a great book and one of her best in my opinion. I got an arc of it a little while ago and it was top tier.

[jackthestripper-rw]

i love Darcy to! "small horrors" has 50 short stories only a couple pages long each and EVERYONE of them were good!! just finished Parasite and she is great at Alien horror as well, From Below was good and im going to read her newest one "Dead of Winter" next about a group of people in a cabin and one of them is a killer taking them out one at a time

[shari]

MBFE and Blanky were both sooo good! Really need to read The Shining. Feel like that may be the only King book I'll like lol. Also need to read Into the Drowning Deep! Especially after loving Feed so much 😀

[caitcoy]

Ooh, I'm curious to get to Mary at some point. I really like Stephen Graham Jones' writing. I've read a couple so far but haven't gotten to Night of the Mannequins yet so I need to get to that one soon.

[ciaralewis]

I'm reading Parasite by Darcey Coates and I really like it! definitely getting Gallows Hills now.

[Korbsy]

Hi
I have just discovered your channel love this video :-)
I totally agree with Stephen King. There are fantastic books (Shining, It, some short stories like "room 1408", Salems Lot, Love (after the first 300 pages...) The outsider, etc) but also a lot that made me so angry and I hate them (first and foremost "Under the dome").
Thank you for all your recommendations: Into the drowning deep, Mary, Night of the Mannequins, Things have gotten worse sound all amazing. And "Gallows Hill" screams my name. I love wine and winerys :-)
House of hunger wasn't my favorite, i have to admit.
Looking forward to seeing more videos from you :-)

[angelaroberts-]

For underwater horror you should read Jaws. I know its old but its great. Also The Meg or Meg is really good for underwater horror. There are submarines and big sharks. It's by Steven Alten and it's a whole series.

[Kritz_Reads]

Such a great list! I read and loved most of these, and the others are on my TBR!

[RivetingReads]

Omg I’m HERE for this video 🎉🎉 I’m about to film one cuz I’m so inspired seeing all of my friends doing these videos 😍😍😍

[SlimeAndSlashers]

Your sweater is the greatest sweater ever! I fricken love it ❤ and your list is awesome! The Shining is definitely my favorite King and would totally be in my top horror books! I just read Night of the Mannequins and actually loved it! And MBFE would be on my top list too! Obsessed with your list 🎉

[happyhauntslibrary]

Final girl support group was one of my faves too. I stand by that! Haha I read it so verociously when I first purchased it. And I also cried at the end of MBFE 😢 such a touching ending to the story.

I need to read into the drowning deep!! I have such a fear of large bodies of water 😂

[amaliazeichnerin]

Thanks for the interesting recommendations. 😊I put some of the books on my wish list. As you have asked for more horror books recommendations, I can recommend "Weep Woman Weep" by Maria DeBlassie, which is partly about the Mexican folklore character La Llorona. The author describes this novel as a gothic fairytale and it has a lot of spooky and cosy atmosphere.

[ptannous]

The Shining is so good. “IT” is the best thing King has ever written in my opinion. Thanks for the recommendations!

[michellesmelancholia]

Yesss Into the Drowning Deep is awesome!! I need to get to Mary ASAP!

[librocurious]

I have House of Hunger, Tender is the Flesh, and A Certain Hunger on hold on Libby. I feel like there is a theme going on here.

[ITCamefromthePage]

YAS.

Can't wait.

Everyone has been making these videos I should as well. IN FACT I

I need to read Mary!

My best friends exorcism and Final Girl Support Group are SO GOOD.

I need to dive into a bunch of these.

Awesome video.

[KendraReadsTomes]

Thanks for the list I’ve always loved horror but it when I was younger so I’ve just found adult horror again so these are all added to the list xx

[fridahultgren]

Ty for the recs :) I agree on the Shining <3 also love a lot of other of his work. some of them have not aged well but I take it with a grain of salt. Others I like include
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (about a evil santa claus, has some trigger warnings)
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (about a town haunted by a witch)
Love Hurts by Kim W Andersson (Swedish comic books with horror theme that has been translated through Dark Horse comics, hard to get a hold of nowdays)
Uzumaki by Junji Ito (I think you know this one)
All of these are 5 star reads for me.