swap_horiz The Between Alternatives

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Boy's Life

Robert McCammon’s *Boy's Life* is a supernatural horror novel exploring themes of innocence and corruption through the e...

Supernatural Coming Of Age Small Town 1990S

9.0 Excellent

2

Swan Song

Robert McCammon’s *Swan Song* presents a sprawling post-apocalyptic horror narrative set in 1987. The novel explores the...

Post Apocalyptic Epic Supernatural 1980S

8.9 Great

3

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury’s *Something Wicked This Way Comes* is a celebrated 1962 horror novel exploring themes of temptation and lo...

Classic Supernatural Coming Of Age Ray Bradbury

8.9 Great

4

Blackwater

Blackwater is a novel by Michael McDowell set in 1980s Alabama. The story follows the Blackwood family as they confront...

Supernatural Family Saga 1980S Southern Gothic

8.9 Great

5

'Salem's Lot

Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel set in the fictional Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot, widely regarded as a landmark of A...

Supernatural Vampire Small Town 1970S

8.5 Great

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The Last House on Needless Street

A 2021 psychological horror novel by British author Catriona Ward that won both the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Ja...

Psychological Unreliable Narrator 2020S Catriona Ward

8.5 Great

7

Summer of Night

Dan Simmons's 1991 novel set in a 1960 Illinois small town where a group of children discover and confront an ancient ma...

Supernatural Coming Of Age Small Town 1990S

8.4 Great

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My Soul to Keep

This 1997 supernatural thriller by American author Tananarive Due explores the dark side of immortality through a secret...

Family 1990S Immortal Tananarive Due

8.3 Great

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The Cipher

Kathe Koja's 1991 debut body horror novel centers on a seemingly bottomless hole that warps the minds and bodies of thos...

1990S Cosmic Horror Transgressive Kathe Koja

8.2 Great

10

Koko

Peter Straub's 1988 novel following four Vietnam veterans who investigate a series of murders in Asia they believe are c...

Psychological 1980S Serial Killer War Trauma

8.0 Great

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The Witching Hour

Anne Rice's 1990 novel launching the Mayfair Witches series, tracing a New Orleans dynasty of witches and their centurie...

Supernatural Family Saga 1990S Witches

7.8 Good

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Intensity

A 1995 psychological thriller by Dean Koontz following Chyna Shepherd, who survives a night of terror as a sociopathic s...

Psychological Thriller 1990S Serial Killer

7.8 Good

13

Desperation

Stephen King's 1996 novel set in a Nevada mining town seized by a demonic entity, published simultaneously with its them...

Desert Supernatural 1990S Evil

7.2 Good

14

Mr. X

Peter Straub's 1999 novel about a man who discovers his absent father's supernatural legacy, blending Lovecraftian horro...

Supernatural Mystery 1990S Lovecraftian

7.0 Good

15

Lasher

Anne Rice's 1993 second Mayfair Witches novel, continuing the story after the spirit Lasher has taken human form and pur...

Supernatural 1990S Demon Witches

6.8 Fair

16

Under a Watchful Eye

A 2017 horror novel by Adam Nevill about a successful British author whose life is upended when a parasitic former acqua...

Supernatural Psychological 2010S Adam Nevill

6.8 Fair

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The Regulators

Richard Bachman (Stephen King)'s 1996 novel set in an Ohio suburb terrorized by supernatural forces, published as a them...

Supernatural 1990S Suburban Evil

6.5 Fair

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Others

A 1999 horror novel by James Herbert in which a physically deformed private detective investigating a missing baby case...

Supernatural Mystery British 1990S

6.5 Fair

19

Taltos

Anne Rice's 1994 third Mayfair Witches novel, revealing the origins of the Taltos, an ancient supernatural race whose hi...

Supernatural 1990S Witches Anne Rice

6.3 Fair

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Rose Madder

Stephen King's 1995 novel following a woman who escapes an abusive husband and finds herself drawn into a mythological w...

Mythology Supernatural 1990S Stephen King

6.2 Fair