swap_horiz The Ignored Alternatives

1

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

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a dark fantasy horror novel by Neil Gaiman. It recounts an adult’s fragmented memory...

Supernatural Dark Fantasy Childhood 2010S

8.7 Great

6

'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

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

8

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

9

The Elementals

Michael McDowell's 1981 Southern Gothic novel is set on an Alabama Gulf Coast property shared by two families and haunte...

Supernatural 1980S Southern Gothic Michael Mcdowell

8.2 Great

10

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

11

The Between

Tananarive Due's 1995 debut novel is a contemporary horror story about a man haunted by alternate realities and dark fam...

Supernatural Psychological 1990S Tananarive Due

7.5 Good

12

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

13

The Store

Bentley Little's 1998 novel portrays a sinister big-box retailer that arrives in a small Arizona town and exerts a growi...

Supernatural Small Town 1990S Bentley Little

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

The Mailman

Bentley Little's 1991 novel centers on an Arizona small town terrorized by a new mailman who delivers death and destruct...

Supernatural Small Town 1990S Possession

7.0 Good

16

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

17

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

18

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

20

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