There may not be a chill in the air just yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give yourself some by reading one of these scares.

The Haunting of Hill House, The Shining, The Exorcist, Frankenstein, and more make up our list of horror books that are ...

We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, ...

The best new books you can read this Halloween are, surprisingly, old books. Horror novels date all the way back to Horace Walpole’s “Castle of Otranto” (1764), but in the 20th century, an avalanche ...

Gothic horror is alive and thriving in the 21st century, with books like Victorian Psycho and Horns ranking among the best in the last 25 years.

We’ve come to the end of another year and another 12 months of publishing that proved horror fiction’s vastness, versatility, and sheer visceral power. In 2024 we saw new novels from some of the ...

Though Fall is, naturally, still the prime release time for horror books, summer continues to gain steam as many of the genre’s biggest names drop new novels and collections while the sun is bright ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Michaela Granger, owner of horror-themed bookshop Midslumber Media in Portland, ...

Gothic horror is one of the most enduring subgenres. Aesthetically, it usually features decaying castles and eerie landscapes. The plots typically involve ghosts or ancient curses, the themes touch on ...