Horror Aficionados discussion

April's theme is CLASSIC HORROR MONSTERS.
This would included, but is not limited to, stories about ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches and mummies. Classic, in this case, does not refer to old-time horror classics like Dracula or Frankenstein, but more along the lines of typical creatures that would be expected in a horror novel.
Put your thinking caps on and dig through those books of classic horror monsters you've been wanting to read.
Let's have a terrifying first month of Spring.

Books that have been Group Reads before do not qualify.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Books that get seconded are more likely to make the poll to be voted on.

Authors, please do not nominate your own books.
We love you but it's tacky.

PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE - NOT ELIGIBLE

14 by Peter Clines

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Blister by Jeff Strand
The Boatmans' Daughter by Andy Davidson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates
Castaways by Brian Keene
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
Colony by Benjamin Cross
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
Cunning Folk by Adam L.G. Nevill

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Elementals by Michael McDowell 2X
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghostland by Duncan Ralston
The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Girls by Emma Cline
Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

The Haar by David Sodergren
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Hide by Kiersten White
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2X
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo
John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom

Larry by Adam Millard
Last Days by Adam Nevill
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2X
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Malignant by Michaelbrent Collings
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
Misery by Stephen King
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
Murder Road by Simone St. James
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam L.G. Nevill
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Rats by James Herbert
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Revival by Stephen King
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Roo by Alan Baxter
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Ruins by Scott Smith

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Shining by Stephen King
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Slade House by David Mitchell
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Subhuman by Michael McBride
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Terror by Dan Simmons 2X
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman 2X
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon

Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vessel by Adam Nevill

The Watchers by A.M. Shine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2X
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

You Like it Darker by Stephen King

Something in the walls
Daisy Pearce

Jane Slayre - Sherri Browning Erwin

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

Because we rarely read short stories I'll try nominating an anthology, and I think it doesn't get more classic horror than clowns. So my nomination is:

Fear of Clowns A Horror Anthology: Coulrophobia Stories, edited by Adam Cesare

+1 Someone You Can Build Your Nest In

Parasite by Darcy Coates

The House That Horror Built!

such sharp teeth by rachel harrison?

inciminci wrote: "Because we rarely read short stories I'll try nominating an anthology, and I think it doesn't get more classic horror than clowns. So my nomination is:

[book:Fear of Clowns A Horror Anthology: Cou..."

The cover alone would keep me up nights. LOL

Jaxi wrote: "Something in the walls
Daisy Pearce"

I second this ^^

Dawn Of The Mummy by Mark L'estrange

The Ghost Sequences

“My Darling Dreadful Thing” by Johanna Van Veen

+Something in the Walls

I nominate:
The Narrows
The Witch of Willow Hall
The Howling
The Lighthouse Witches
At the Bottom of the Garden

I agree with Something In The Walls by Daisy Pearce!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Eynehallow

+1 My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen.

Bloodsucker County by Jeff Strand

I also agree with Something in the Walls! I haven’t read it yet and it would be fun to read as a group!

Aria wrote: "such sharp teeth by rachel harrison?"

+1

Such Sharp Teeth

even though I just read this a few months ago, it was so good I'd read it again now.

Fellow HAs, I love you all, but could you please use the "add book/author" function? It just takes a second and makes life easier. Highlighting/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V is so last century.

Something in the Walls really does sound excellent!

Katherine wrote: "Something in the Walls really does sound excellent!"

+1 to Something in the Walls from me too, I've had my eyes on it :)

WendyB wrote: "Bloodsucker County by Jeff Strand"

+1 Bloodsucker Country, nice find!

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss.

This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

Kasia wrote: "WendyB wrote: "Bloodsucker County by Jeff Strand"

+1 Bloodsucker Country, nice find!"

I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more notice. Sounds like a good one.

+1 Someone You Can Build A Nest In
+1 The Ghost Sequences
+1 My Darling, Dreadful Thing

Through a Glass, Darkly by W.H. Hussey. One note of caution; there are a good number of books with this title.

I am so looking forward to The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, and as a vampire tale, I believe it qualifies. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

A Mask of flies by Matthew lyons

Is there anyway we can make this into a poll? I'm open to whatever books!

Mariam wrote: "Is there anyway we can make this into a poll? I'm open to whatever books!"

:)
That is exactly what will happen. When the nominations close, the top selections here will be put on a poll for everyone to vote on. The two books that get the most votes will be our Group Reads.
Threads are then set up to discuss the books.

I will nominate this one:

Bigfoot in the Bronx by Hunter Shea

and +1 for Bloodsucker Country

Nominating Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

I'd like to nominate:


The Haunted


Werewolf on the Western Front


Zombies on The Block

Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Hell Train by Christopher Fowler

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter Ackroyd

+1 Something in the Walls
+1 Someone You Can Build a Nest In

I'll close the noms some time tomorrow so you still have time to mention a book or two.
Great ideas already. April will be an awesome month for scares.

Joey wrote: "A Mask of flies by Matthew lyons"

+1 A Mask of Flies

I second Fear of Clowns A Horror Anthology: Coulrophobia Stories

Lee Markham - The Truants. An eerie and original invasion of vampires in London’s inner city.

Closing the thread for noms.
The poll will be up tomorrow. Thanks, everyone.