swap_horiz The Reddening Alternatives

1

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman's 2013 novel follows an English adult who returns to his childhood home and recalls a supernatural crisis in...

Supernatural Dark Fantasy Childhood 2010S

8.7 Great

2

The Only Good Indians

The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by American author Stephen Graham Jones, notable for blending Indigenous cu...

Native American 2020S Folk Horror Stephen Graham Jones

8.6 Great

3

A Head Full of Ghosts

A Head Full of Ghosts is a 2015 horror novel by American author Paul Tremblay, notable for winning the Bram Stoker Award...

Religious Reality TV 2010S Demonic Possession

8.5 Great

4

The Fisherman

The Fisherman is a 2016 horror novel by American author John Langan, notable for winning the Bram Stoker Award and its c...

Grief 2010S Cosmic Horror Lovecraftian

8.5 Great

5

The Ballad of Black Tom

The Ballad of Black Tom is a 2016 horror novella by Victor LaValle, notable for reimagining H.P. Lovecraft's The Horror...

Historical 2010S Cosmic Horror Lovecraftian

8.3 Great

6

Harvest Home

Thomas Tryon's 1973 novel follows a New York family who relocate to an idyllic New England village concealing violent pa...

1970S Rural Folk Horror Thomas Tryon

8.3 Great

7

The Cabin at the End of the World

The Cabin at the End of the World is a 2018 horror novel by American author Paul Tremblay, notable for winning the Bram...

Psychological Apocalyptic 2010S Home Invasion

8.0 Great

8

Little Heaven

Little Heaven is a 2016 horror novel by Canadian author Nick Cutter, notable for its extreme violence and its setting of...

Supernatural Western 2010S Nick Cutter

8.0 Great

9

My Best Friend's Exorcism

My Best Friend's Exorcism is a 2016 horror novel by American author Grady Hendrix, notable for blending teen comedy and...

1980S Friendship 2010S Demonic Possession

7.7 Good

10

Revival

Stephen King's 2014 novel blending cosmic horror with religious themes, tracing a minister's obsession with a mysterious...

Religion 2010S Cosmic Horror Lovecraftian

7.6 Good

11

No One Gets Out Alive

A 2014 horror novel by Adam Nevill about a vulnerable young woman who becomes trapped in a sinister Birmingham boarding...

Supernatural Exploitation 2010S Haunted House

7.5 Good

12

Rawblood

A 2015 debut novel by Catriona Ward set on Dartmoor, England, tracing the supernaturally cursed Villarca family across m...

Historical Gothic 2010S Family Curse

7.5 Good

13

Disappearance at Devil's Rock

Disappearance at Devil's Rock is a 2016 psychological horror novel by Paul Tremblay, notable for winning the British Fan...

Supernatural Small Town 2010S Missing Persons

7.5 Good

14

This Book Is Full of Spiders

This Book Is Full of Spiders is a 2012 comedic horror novel by David Wong, notable as the sequel to John Dies at the End...

Supernatural Zombie 2010S Jason Pargin

7.5 Good

15

The Hungry Moon

Ramsey Campbell's 1986 novel depicts a small English moorland town whose ancient imprisoned evil is accidentally release...

1980S Pagan Folk Horror Ramsey Campbell

7.5 Good

16

Floating Staircase

Ronald Malfi's 2011 novel follows a horror novelist who moves to a lakeside Maryland house and grows obsessed with the u...

Ghost Grief 2010S Haunted House

7.5 Good

17

We Sold Our Souls

We Sold Our Souls is a 2018 horror novel by Grady Hendrix, notable for its heavy metal aesthetic and plot about a retire...

Rock Supernatural 2010S Grady Hendrix

7.3 Good

18

House of Small Shadows

A 2013 horror novel by Adam Nevill about an antiques cataloguer invited to a reclusive taxidermist's English country est...

Gothic 2010S Folk Horror Dolls

7.2 Good

19

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

20

Cunning Folk

A 2021 folk horror novel by Adam Nevill about a couple renovating a rural English property who face increasingly malevol...

Suburban Witchcraft 2020S Folk Horror

6.8 Fair