Horror Books of the 2010s
The 804 most-read horror books first published between 2010 and 2019, led by The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) and Mr. Mercedes (2013).
This list collects 804 books from the 2010s by 507 authors, published between 2010 and 2019. 1 is free to read and 4 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King, Ingah Mikhaʼeli
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The Call of Cthulhu
H.P. Lovecraft
Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
The Passage
Justin Cronin
The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud
The Institute
Stephen King
The Girl with All the Gifts
Mike Carey
City of Fallen Angels
Cassandra Clare
Hollow City
Ransom Riggs
Revival
Stephen King
Vicious
V. E. Schwab
Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis
Joyland
Stephen King, Michael Kelly.
I Shall Wear Midnight
Terry Pratchett
The Outsider
Stephen King
A Song of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast for Crows / A Dance with Dragons)
George R. R. Martin
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
The Hollow Boy
Jonathan Stroud
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco
Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol
The Whispering Skull
Jonathan Stroud
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #3)
Ransom Riggs
City of Lost Souls The Mortal Instruments Book 5
Cassandra Clare
Shadow Souls
Lisa Jane Smith
The Unwanteds (The Unwanteds #1)
Lisa McMann
The Twelve
Justin Cronin
A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul Tremblay
Through the Woods
Emily Carroll
The Deep
Nick Cutter
Horrorstör
Grady Hendrix
Kraken
China Miéville
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle, Gökçe Çiçek
NOS4A2
Joe Hill
Imiginary Friend
Stephen Chbosky
The Bane Chronicles
Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Zone One
Colson Whitehead, Mireia Carol Gres
The Girl From The Well (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Rin Chupeco
The Creeping Shadow
Jonathan Stroud
Il Tesoro Del Pirata Fantasma
Elisabetta Dami
Saint Odd
Dean Koontz
The Wolf Gift
Anne Rice
Prince Lestat
Anne Rice
Feed
Seanan McGuire
Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake
Manacled
SenLinYu
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
Welcome to Night Vale
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
This Book is Full of Spiders
David Wong
Fear Street Novel - Don't Stay Up Late
Robert Lawrence Stine, Brittany Pressley
Un Vampiro Da Salvare!
Elisabetta Dami
The City of Mirrors
Justin Cronin
Dark Matter
Michelle Paver
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
Anne Rice
Deeply Odd
Dean Koontz
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
Odd Apocalypse
Dean Koontz
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith
The Empty Grave
Jonathan Stroud
Why I Quit Zombie School
Robert Lawrence Stine
The Compelled
Lisa Jane Smith
Lost Boy
Christina Henry
Fear Street Novel - Party Games
Robert Lawrence Stine, Brittany Pressley
Asylum
Madeleine Roux
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
Laini Taylor
Sleeping Beauties
Stephen King, Owen King
Into the Drowning Deep
Mira Grant
City of Heavenly Fire
Cassandra Clare
Dread Nation
Justina Ireland
The Winter People
Jennifer McMahon
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
Silber
Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell
Blood Communion
Anne Rice
The Core
Peter V. Brett
Paperbacks from Hell
Grady Hendrix
The Boy on the Bridge
Mike Carey
Those Across the River
Christopher Buehlman
The Origins
Lisa Jane Smith
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
Blood of Dragons
Robin Hobb
Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds: The first official Stranger Things novel
Gwenda Bond
Alice
Christina Henry
77 Shadow Street
Dean Koontz
American Vampire (Big Break / Bad Blood)
Scott Snyder, Stephen King
Gwendy's Button Box
Stephen King, Richard Chizmar
The Eternal Dawn
Christopher Pike
The Dead
Charles Higson
Creepella von Cacklefur 02 Meet me in Horrorwood
Elisabetta Dami, David Nel·lo
Frozen Charlotte
Alex Bell
Slappy's Tales of Horror
Jamie Tolagson, Ted Naifeh
Phantom
Lisa Jane Smith