Best Horror Novels 2021 Novels & Stories

He was lying face down, and face up, all at once. I live in that house now. I am the village "fixer." And every night, I listen to the scratching beneath the floorboards. I don't fear the ones that crawl. I fear the ones that wait. Because now I know that the most terrifying thing in the world isn't death—it’s a corpse that refuses to close its eyes.

“Were these any help, detective?” “I’m afraid not,” I said, defeated. I was in a bit of a daze after staring at projected newsprint on the dim screen. I leaned on the desk and looked around the building absentmindedly until my eyes finally settled on a small sign hanging on a table covered with a neat stack of books. “Warning: The Library is Not Responsible for Nightmares!” I read out loud, walking over to look at the books. Well-worn volumes with pink skulls grinning back at me from stickers on their spines. Dracula. Frankenstein. The Invisible Man.

I grinned. Rina snorted. “I’m a little annoyed by people trying to turn classic literature into horror shit.” Kimi and I looked at her in surprise. “So, you prefer pure horror?” I asked. Rina rolled her eyes. “Have you met your sister? She’s all about the jump scares and psychological thrillers.” I wrinkled my nose. “So is your brother. I’m not going to lie, Blood and Chocolate and Warm Bodies were a compromise. As was Shaun of the Dead.”

After resting for a while, they walked around and saw a bookstore which they both agreed to enter. She was reading the back of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen when Jacob asked her. “What do you say let’s read horror books? Like the ones we watched today?” “Eh? I’m scared. You go read first, then give me a summary, then I’ll decide. Haha!” “Roger!” as he picked The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft and IT by Stephen King. They finished book shopping, it was around three in the afternoon when Jacob invited her to go somewhere else.

“Shouldn’t I be asking you that?” “I write horror for a living. This is basically research.” Thunder exploded outside hard enough to shake the windows violently. Then another sound echoed through the darkness. Not from anyone inside the group. The sound came from near the bathroom. Winona narrowed her eyes toward the darkness instead of backing away. The emergency lights suddenly flickered on in dim red flashes. For one brief second, she saw a massive shadow standing near the bathroom doorway holding something long and sharp. Then the lights flickered again. The figure vanished.

The Hunger, The Last Vampire, Lilith's Dream BY WHITLEY STRIEBER Whitley Strieber's three vampire novels; the most famous is The Hunger. Strieber's idea was to imagine vampires as not supernatural, but simply as a different, stronger, nearly immortal species. Much more the standard horror view of vampires. Miriam Blaylock — played by Catherine Deneuve in the 1983 film — is truly rapacious. 19. Let The Right One In BY JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST A novel from Sweden with a young voracious vampire. Very much a horror story, but also a morality tale of what happens to the bullied child. The movie is exquisite, if terrifying.

Billy replied to my message, saying that we should meet later on at my and Anna’s place. I was a nerve wreck; everything about me just looked guilty or suspicious. I had Goosebumps every time somebody mentioned Sharon or Naledi’s names. I had to leave before I gave myself away, so I sneaked out before Anna could say ‘don’t’. I took a taxi to town, every newspaper headline that I saw that day was about the ‘Newtown murders’. It was like a scene from a movie. I quickly sprang to Faraday Taxi rank and took my last ride to Turffontein and waited for Billy there. Later in the afternoon, I got a text from Anna, informing me that she was going to be a bit late, that was a relief because it meant Bi

When he heard the whirring of the furnace as it kicked on, he smiled and said, “Your balls are in good hands, buddy.” They huddled over the large grate on the floor as the heat billowed from it in silence until Tim finally spoked. “I’m really worried about Agatha.” “We all are,” Edwin said with a saddened tone. “Do you think she’ll make it out of this?” Tim asked. “If the vampires are like Kira, yes. If they’re like those son-of-a-bitches in the movies, or even those creeps in the elevator, I’m not as confident,” Edwin admitted.

(Yesterday with Kora) “What harm will it do for me to tell Damien?” I asked. “He is a demon, and the nephew and best friend of the devil, the secret will not be kept for long, and if Lucifer finds out,” Kora inhaled deeply and looked away from me. “Tell me. I can take it. What will happen if Lucifer finds out?” She only spared me a look and then exhaled, “He will destroy you.” “Destroy me?” I was already technically dead and in Hell, could it get any worse?

Enzo explained and Callum snapped his eyes in horror. "Otherwise they would have harmed Stephen". He said in a terrified tone. "They wouldn’t have actually. Since Stephen is hybrid. It's a bit different with him. The pack would have stood by him. Ace and Zol are vampires. They can only punish a vampire. Are you getting my point"? This time Max spoke.