Horror Aficionados discussion

For our December Group Reads there are 3 rules:
-Do NOT nominate previous group reads, found in post #2
-No Stephen King books
-Authors may NOT nominate their own books

The only theme this month is that last book you want to knock off your TBR stack this year.
The top two vote getters will be our group reads.
Nominations that receive the most +1s are more likely to make the final poll.

INELIGIBLE PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE

14 by Peter Clines

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

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 Boatman's 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 Running Man by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King

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

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

King Sorrow by Joe Hill

Twisted by Michaelbrent Collings

Creeping wrote: "King Sorrow by Joe Hill "

+1 for King Sorrow

Morsels by Abe Moss

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

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Links to the books are ok but please at least include the book title and author with your suggestion.

Xalia wrote: "The Only Good Indians by
Stephen Graham Jones"

Beatrice wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."


Previous group reads, therefore not eligible.
Read post #2 before nominating.

The Only Good Indians - Stephen G Jones

Nicole wrote: "The Only Good Indians - Stephen G Jones"

As stated immediately above your post, previous group read therefore NOT eligible.

Sorry, there’s a lot of titles to look through lol.

+1 King Sorrow by Joe Hill.

A Child Alone With Strangers by Philip Fracassi.

I will nominate two books:

Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi

and

Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn


+1 Twisted

*edit
+1 King Sorrow

I’m going to nominate Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
I started it then didn’t finish it because Buffalo Hunter Hunter came up, and I HAD TO participate with that one. So, it’s in my library waitlist and maybe—MAYBE—I’ll get lucky and it will be available again for December. Fingers crossed. 🤞🏻

Xalia wrote: "Sorry, there’s a lot of titles to look through lol."

🤣

Xalia wrote: "Sorry, there’s a lot of titles to look through lol."

It is a great book, though. Highly recommended.

+1 King Sorrow!

Tremblay. I don’t care which.

+1 for King Sorrow
Also This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

Um. The list of automatic "no" is a pretty awesome reading list on its own!

D.M. wrote: "Um. The list of automatic "no" is a pretty awesome reading list on its own!"

I agree. Those are amazing books.
Most of them should be on a well-read horror fan's tbr.

I nominate . . . .

ALL THE FIENDS OF HELL by Adam Nevill

I would like to nominate:

The Sorrowstones by Felix Blackwell

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

+1 The Sorrowstones

Phantoms by Dean Koontz

The Queen by Nick Cutter

The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas

+1 All the Fiends of Hell
+1 The Possession of Alba Diaz

habit by Stephen mcgeagh

+1 All the Fiends of Hell

I nominate:
Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror by Ashley Cullins

+1 The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas.

+1 King Sorrow by Joe Hill

Or

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

Just curious, why no Stephen King?

+1 for King Sorrow

Michelle wrote: "Just curious, why no Stephen King?"

King is enormously popular so, at times, we have to say no to his books so other books and authors have the chance to be read.

King Sorrow by Joe Hill

Would love to read „Lucky Day“ by Chuck Tingle with you guys!

Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds

WendyB wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Just curious, why no Stephen King?"

King is enormously popular so, at times, we have to say no to his books so other books and authors have the chance to be read."

Makes sense. And then I went and nominated his son. LOL

Get your noms and +1s in. Nominations will close tonight.

Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman

Wyetha wrote: "Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman"

Previous group read so not eligible.

Mister Lullaby by Alex North or the Handyman Method by Nick Cutter. Both really good. I've read them, but more people need to enjoy them. I did just purchase King Sorrow, so I'm up for that one.

+1 Handyman Method

+1 The Queen

I nominate:
The Haunting of Room 904

The Bad Seed