Back to top

Rising Stars of Horror: 3 Authors to Check Out

by Steven Slavick, Adult Services Specialist  December 2022

While we’ve always owned horror books, we’ve added a new collection to our shelves: horror novels, which you can find in between the Crime and Romance collections on the second floor! As a big fan of horror novels, I’d like to get you started with some of the rising stars in horror fiction over the past 5+ years with these author recommendations.

With titles like HorrorStor, a novel set in a haunted Ikea-type store, and My Best Friend’s Exorcism, which is like Beaches meets The Exorcist, Grady Hendrix writes fast-paced horror sprinkled with plenty of humor.

Paul Tremblay always shakes up the status quo, whether it be with A Headful of Ghosts, which had “scared the living hell” out of Stephen King, or the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan adaptation of his novel, The Cabin at the End of the World.

A prolific Australian writer, Darcy Coates, writes gripping haunted houses reads, such as The Haunting of Ashburn House, but she has also penned an underwater creature feature From Below and an apocalyptic quadrilogy.

Our shelves are stacked with even more horror authors with only one or two horror novels in their bibliography, such as:

If you’re ever in the mood for a horror novel but don’t know which book would be the right fit, feel free to send me an email with the types of scares you’re looking for (or even horror movies you enjoy), and I’ll be happy to provide some good recommendations. You can reach me at slavick@addisonlibrary.org. Happy reading!