Horror Aficionados discussion

You guys know the drill, it's finally time to start nominating books that we will be reading together in November, woot woot :)

The main ingredient aka the theme is - On the Run

So anything scary and chilling with main characters literally being on the run or being hunted, escaping a serial killer or some event, trying to escape a situation or entrapment, dangerous pursuits, good ole Zombie chases etc :P

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We ask that authors don't not nominate their own books, thank you.

If you see a book that's nominated on here that you agree with and also would want to nominate it pls reply with +1 so we can count your vote for it.

We don't repeat previous reads, so please check the list when entering your nomination :)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...



Nominations are open from 10.16 to 10.20 Monday, then the top picks go on a poll, top two choices are our November reads.



Than you for being here friends!

INELIGIBLE PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE

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
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
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
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez
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
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
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

Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
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
It by Stephen King

Jaws by Peter Benchley
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

Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren
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
Parasite by Darcy Coates
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 in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
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
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
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 Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough
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

Thank you Alan, super helpful!

A read I'd like to nominate -


Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson

"A Vietnam veteran and his adopted niece hunt—and are hunted by—the vampire that slaughtered their family"

I nominate The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

+1 The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre been looking for a reason to read this since it came out.

Between Two Fires would be my choice!

Bloodsucker County

Hiding from vampires and being hunted by them, this is one of Jeff Strand's best.

Colie wrote: "Between Two Fires would be my choice!"

If you look at the list in post #2, you'll see this book listed, meaning it's been read before and is not eligible for nomination.

Feel free to nominate another book.

+1 The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

The Huntsman by Devin Cabrera


Native Fear by C.F. Page

+ 1 Native Fear.

The author is really good and I would like to read more by him or her (don't remember if they are a guy or a gal.)

Another is One of Us by Dan Chaon



"A playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, from master of literary horror Dan Chaon."

This was awesome, I did the audiobook years ago, it was the first time I got into audiobooks and this book was the catalyst for me, after this one my next five books were also on audio. Heck of a story.

Run by Blake Crouch



"A gripping apocalyptic thriller about a man and his family running for their lives in an America gone mad—from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion"

Clownflesh by Tim Curran

How about clowns hunting down small town people in a snow storm?

WendyB wrote: "Clownflesh by Tim Curran

How about clowns hunting down small town people in a snow storm?"

+1 love!!!

Intensity by Dean Koontz

+1 for The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi.

+1 for The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

Velocity by Dean Koontz
Road of Bones by Christopher Golden

Frenzy, which you can also find under the title Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square.

+1 The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

Fishface wrote: "Frenzy, which you can also find under the title Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square."

Kudos for original thinking, but that book is thriller/crime, and we're looking for horror books.

Burial by Robbie Dorman


The Island Mother by Jon Cohn

+1 The Huntsman
+1 Clownflesh

Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

(audiobook highly recommended. :) )

Dead City by Joe McKinney

WendyB wrote: "Clownflesh by Tim Curran

How about clowns hunting down small town people in a snow storm?"

This feels very "Killer Klowns from Outer Space."

Take my +1 upvote!😀

I feel like The Running Man by Stephen King is a little on the nose, but I’m willing to suggest it anyway The Running Man

Kasia wrote: "This was awesome, I did the audiobook years ago, it was the first time I got into audiobooks and this book was the catalyst for me, after this one my next five books were also on audio. Heck of a s..."

+1 for Run

I gave this 5* when I read it years ago

I did not see it in the previously mentioned reads so I vote for Watchers by Dean Koontz.

Three horror novels where running isn’t cowardice — it’s survival.

🐺 When the Wolf Comes Home — Nat Cassidy



A woman helps a young boy escape his violent father — a man succumbing to something wild and inhuman. On the run from: a monster wearing a familiar face.

🧬 Survivor Song — Paul Tremblay



A rabies-like outbreak turns every minute into triage as two women race across Massachusetts. On the run from: infection, collapse, and time itself.

🔪 Off Season — Jack Ketchum



A group trapped in a coastal cabin becomes prey to feral cannibals. On the run from: a relentless, bloodthirsty clan.

Three flavors of fear — the hunted, the infected, and the devoured.

Netanella wrote: "I nominate The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

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+1 for The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

+1 Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

I just started Bird Box
That'd be a good one for this topic

I also nominate:
Run on Red

Chandler wrote: "
I just started Bird Box
That'd be a good one for this topic
.."

This was a previous group read. Not sure why it wasn't on the list, but I've corrected it. Sorry for the confusion.

Endless Night - Richard Laymon

Read this 20 years ago, my first and favourite Richard Laymon and certainly not my last.
They never stop running…

Lots of good stuff guys, thank you! :D

+1 The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

Would it be tacky to nominate my own book? Emily

It's about a woman trying to escape her girlfriend and her girlfriend's father, who kidnapped her.

One of Us +1

Also:
On Earth As It Is Beneath
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
Our Winter Monster

+1 The Running Man

Hideaway by Dean Koontz

Wrath wrote: "Would it be tacky to nominate my own book? "

Sorry, Wrath, we don't allow author promotion in group reads.

You can promote your books in the promo section located here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

+1 for Our Winter Monster

Diane wrote: "I feel like The Running Man by Stephen King is a little on the nose, but I’m willing to suggest it anyway The Running Man"

Great. I would love to read this one. Im here to vote for it in the poll if it get there.

I’d like to nominate Mine by Robert McCammon. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Mine by Robert McCammon is insane. Ha. This time the good person is doing the chasing.

Run On Red -checks all the thematic boxes

+1 for Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

Nominations end tonight. I will have the poll up asap.

Belinda wrote: "Hideaway by Dean Koontz"

+1 haven't read that one yet, sounds good and I love older Koontz.

WendyB wrote: "Bloodsucker County

Hiding from vampires and being hunted by them, this is one of Jeff Strand's best."

+1 for sure