Booksology If you’re looking for a horror book to add to TBR for the official start of the creepy moon, Libby shared with us the most popular horror book that was checked out in the North American Public Library space last month.
This list is full of great bestsellers and extremely popular horror books. There are some classics first published 128 years ago, but if you’d like to see horror written by people with different perspectives, there are some recent posts about the BIPOC horror books you’ve read this year.
It includes Korean Ghost Story (Midnight Timetable: A Ghost Story novel by Boracheon, translated by Anton Har), Nigerian Set Horror (funny by Nuzono), historical horror (devil by Almakatsu), and Gothic Romantic No Rose (but not too bold by Hash Pioio). There is also Indigenous horror (Buffalo Hunter x Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones) and the Scary Dark Academia (Hellebore’s Library by Cassandra Cow).
Below are the 10 most popular horror books in Libby.
10. By Freida McFadden
A twisted thriller full of betrayal, starting with the broken down of his mother’s minivan, stressed on a lonely dirt road…
9. Hidden photos by Jason Leclack
From the publisher:
A very original spin comes to the supernatural thriller from Edgar Award adaptor Jason LeCrack for strangers and Riley Sager fans.
“I loved it.” – Stephen King
8. Holly by Stephen King
From the publisher:
One of Stephen King’s most persuasive and resourceful characters, Holly Gibney returns to this horrifying “quest for sadness and delusions, purely uninterrupted evil” (New York magazine).
7. You like it gets dark by Stephen King
From the publisher:
“Do you like it’s darker? So do I,” Stephen King writes in a postscript to this epic new collection of 12 stories, both in secret and literally, delve into the dark side of life.
Finalists at the 2025 Locus Awards and winners of the Goodreads Choice Award for Horror
6. A guide to the Southern Book Club to kill vampires by Glady Hendrix
From the publisher:
Fried green tomatoes and Steel Magnolia meet Dracula In this Southern wind supernatural thriller set in the 90s about a girls’ book club that must protect suburban communities from mysterious, handsome strangers who have turned out to be real monsters.
5. BramStoker’s Dracula
From the publisher:
Dracula It is a 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stalker and features its main antagonist, the Earl of Vampire Dracula.
Dracula is attributed to many literary genres, including vampire literature, horror fiction, Gothic novels, and invasion literature. Structureally, it is an epistry novel told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have explored many themes in the novel, including the role of women in Victorian culture, traditional conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism, and folklore. Although stalkers did not invent vampires, the novel’s influence on vampires’ popularity has been highly responsible for the interpretation of many theatrical and films throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
4. Magic for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
From the publisher:
They were never girls, they were witches…
They call them whimsical girls. A relaxed girl. A girl who grew up quickly. They are then sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida. There, unmarried mothers hide in their families to keep their babies secret, give up on them for adoption, and forget what is more important than anything else…
3. In revenge by Riley Sagger
From the publisher:
The ghost’s past. Trains that do not stop. 13 hours to consider the truth.
In 1954, Anna Matheson mounted a luxurious overnight train to Chicago, which she had commissioned, and her name and heart were strengthened by loss. Twelve years ago, during World War II, six of them shattered the lives of their families. Now, under the wrong guise, Anna coordinated the horrifying reunion.
2. Never flutter by Stephen King
From the publisher:
From the Master Storyteller, Stephen King brings out an extraordinary new novel with intertwined storylines. One is targeting a cast of beloved Holly Gibney and dynamic new characters about a murderer on the Devil’s Revenge mission and a vigilante who targeted feminist celebrity speakers.
1. Living here by Marcus Clewer
From the publisher:
An unforgettable debut from “Author Destined to Become a Spooky and Anxious Titan” (Erin A. Craig, Bestselling Author of the New York Times) – becoming an original Netflix film is in favor of two homeowners whose lives fell when residents in front of the House unexpectedly visited.
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