Most Popular Horror Books of the 2010s

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Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales

Cody Goodfellow

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

March 2016

The Assassination of Ambrose Bierce: A Love Story

Don Swaim

Horror · Historical Fiction · Mainstream · Thriller

February 2016

Greener Pastures

Michael Wehunt

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

April 1, 2016

Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror

Ellen Datlow

Horror · Anthology

November 1, 2016

Newsflesh

Rise: A Newsflesh Collection

Mira Grant

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

June 2016

A Suite in Four Windows

David Rix

Horror

February 1, 2016

Swift to Chase

Laird Barron

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

October 4, 2016

Dreamglass Days

Mark Howard Jones

Horror · Short Stories

July 2016

Human Maps

Andrew Hook

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

November 2016

Hearts of Darkness Trilogy #1

Royal Blood

Bruce Woods

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy

October 2015

Darkest Hand Trilogy #1

The Damned

Tarn Richardson

Fantasy · Horror

May 2015

Mother

Philip Fracassi

Horror · Weird Fiction

December 2015

The Harlequin

Nina Allan

Horror

September 30, 2015

Scar City

Joel Lane

Horror · Short Stories

October 2015

Nightscript #1

Nightscript: Volume I

C. M. Muller

Horror · Anthology

October 2015

Biblia Longcrofta

Simon Marshall-Jones

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · New Weird · Short Stories

August 2015

With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer

J. R. Hamantaschen

Horror · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

September 2015

The Night Clock #1

The Night Clock

Paul Meloy

Horror · Science Fiction · Dark Fantasy

November 6, 2015

Monstrous Aftermath: Stories in the Lovecraftian Tradition

W. H. Pugmire

Horror · Short Stories

August 2015

The Sleep Corporation: The Collected Short Stories of Douglas Thompson

Douglas Thompson

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

October 2015

She Walks in Shadow

Paula R. Stiles, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Horror · Anthology · World Fantasy Award

October 2, 2015

Father Torturo #2

Cannibals of West Papua

Brendan Connell

Fantasy · Horror · Adventure

July 2015

Strange Tales #5

Strange Tales, Volume V

Rosalie Parker

Fantasy · Horror · Anthology

April 9, 2015

Creeping Crawlers

Allen Ashley

Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Anthology

October 17, 2015

The Monstrous

Ellen Datlow

Horror · Anthology

October 22, 2015

Aickman's Heirs

Simon Strantzas

Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

May 2015

Grimm Mistresses

Mercedes M. Yardley, Stacey Turner, C. W. LaSart, Allison M. Dickson, S. R. Cambridge

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Fairy Tale · Anthology

February 21, 2015

A Confederacy of Horrors

James Robert Smith

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

January 2015

The Death House

Sarah Pinborough

Horror · Science Fiction · Young Adult · Thriller

February 24, 2015

Mirrors in the Deluge

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

March 6, 2015

Sensorama

Allen Ashley

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Anthology

March 6, 2015

Mercy and Other Stories

Rebecca Lloyd

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

March 2014

The Beauty

Aliya Whiteley

Horror · Science Fiction · Dark Fantasy · New Weird · Weird Fiction

September 2014

Bone Idle in the Charnel House

Rhys Hughes

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

December 2014

Forgotten Hymns of the Death Angels

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

September 2014

The Revenant of Rebecca Pascal

W. H. Pugmire, David Barker

Horror

June 2014