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Mother Horror's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

  • February 27, 2025
  • 240 Books
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A comprehensive list of every book recommended in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, including side suggestions.

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Rites of Extinction
Red X
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Red
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Strangers on a Train
Daphne
Goblin
Black Mad Wheel
Inspection
Unbury Carol
A House at the Bottom of a Lake
Malorie
Bird Box
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The Listener

The Bone Weaver's Orchard
The Deer Kings
The Ghost Tree
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Of Foster Homes and Flies

Penpal
December Park
The Bottoms
Knock Knock
Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology
Walk the Darkness Down
A Lush and Seething Hell
The Fisherman
The Worm and His Kings
The Ballad of Black Tom
Lord of the Flies
Rosemary's Baby
Misery
The Shuddering
The Neighbors
If You See Her
Apart in the Dark: Novellas
Dark Across the Bay
Within These Walls
The Bird Eater
Seed
The Devil Crept in
Brother
Marla
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Exorcist Falls

Children of the Dark
The Nightmare Girl
Clown in a Cornfield
Hex
The Year of the Witching
The tribe
When Darkness Loves Us
The Auctioneer
Horrorstör
The Final Girl Support Group
How to Sell a Haunted House
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Paperbacks from Hell
We Sold Our Souls
My Best Friend's Exorcism
Come Closer
The Wicked
The demonologist
Boys In the Valley
Interview with the Vampire
Love in Vein
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Collected from American Folklore
Aliens: Vasquez
The Haunting of Alejandra
Mestiza Blood
The Queen of the Cicadas
Goddess of Filth
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Hairspray and Switchblades

The Return
Hearts Strange and Dreadful
The Children on the Hill
In the Valley of the Sun
The United States of Cryptids
Hell Hound
Pet Sematary
The Cormorant
The Birds
Jurassic Park
Ghoul
Frankenstein
Dracula
Mongrels
The Rats
Jaws
Cujo
Pearl
The Only Good Indians
Kindred
Beloved
My Soul to Take
Blood Colony
The Living Blood
My Soul to Keep
The Between
The Good House
Ghost Summer