Curse Breaking Horror Books
43 horror books that use the curse breaking trope — someone is cursed — and the plot is how to break it. Top picks: Thinner (1984), Anna Dressed in Blood (2011) and Plain Bad Heroines (2020).

Thinner
Stephen King

Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake

Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth

Uzumaki
Junji Itō

Ruined
Paula Morris

The Accident Season
Moïra Fowley-Doyle
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The Joss
Richard Marsh

Touch of Darkness
Christina Dodd

Return to Fear Street - You May Now Kill the Bride
Robert Lawrence Stine

The Tomb
F. Paul Wilson

Death Warmed Over (Dan Shamble Zombie P. I.)
Kevin J. Anderson, Phil Gigante

Spellcaster
Claudia Gray

The Night Gardener
Jonathan Auxier

Steadfast
Claudia Gray

Girl Of Nightmares
Kendare Blake

And the Trees Crept In
Dawn Kurtagich

Blind Panic
Graham Masterton

The beast of Baskerville
Annette Cascone

The Nightmarys
Dan Poblocki

The Lunatic's Curse
F. E. Higgins

Shutter
Courtney Alameda

Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Cherie Priest

The Hunt for the Seventh
Christine Morton-shaw

Secrets of the Dead: A novel of mummies and ancient curses
Simon Clark

Mothman's Curse
Christine Hayes

The Exchange
Graham Joyce

Read It And Weep You're Invited to a Creepover #13
P. J. Night

The Dyerville tales
M. P. Kozlowsky

The curse of Jacob Tracy
Holly Messinger

The show must go on! You're Invited to a Creepover #4
P. J. Night

The Blood Keeper
Tessa Gratton

SpineChillers Mysteries Series
Fred E. Katz
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The Secret of Kralitz
Henry Kuttner

The Revenants
Geoffrey Farrington

The Curse of Magoria (Thrillers)
Stewart, Paul

Mistwalker
Saundra Mitchell

The Phantom of Phys Ed Spinechillers Mysteries #5
Katz, Fred E.

Her Vampyrrhic Heart
Simon Clark

His Vampyrrhic Bride
Simon Clark

The I scream truck
Rod Randall

Curse of the Haunted House
Michael Teitelbaum, Devra Newberger Speregen

Sinister Scenes
P. J. Bracegirdle
The Waking
Thomas Randall