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Top authors writing spooky horror
Katie Alender
4.04 · 167 ratings
horror · mystery · suspense · paranormal · young-adult · fiction · friendship · book · high-school · death · family · fantasy · killer · audiobook · contemporary · ghosts · supernatural · drama · spooky · dark
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David Sodergren
4.02 · 106 ratings
book · fiction · adult · horror · supernatural · spooky · splatterpunk · graphic-violence · monsters · serial-killers · action-adventure · slasher · pulp · paranormal · lgbtq · fantasy · dark · rural · body-horror · suspense
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Christopher Buehlman
3.97 · 130 ratings
horror · adult · fiction · fantasy · dark · supernatural · dark-fantasy · paranormal · book · historical · audiobook · spooky · action-adventure · urban-fantasy · mystery · suspense · rural · historical-fiction · folk-horror · magic
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Simone St. James
3.95 · 243 ratings
horror · mystery · paranormal · suspense · ghosts · adult · fiction · supernatural · book · crime · audiobook · spooky · killer · gothic · historical-fiction · historical · murder · thriller · female-author · 20th-century
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Dan Poblocki
3.92 · 141 ratings
fiction · mystery · middle-grade · children-books · paranormal · book · supernatural · young-adult · horror · ghosts · spooky · children · fantasy · action-adventure · law-enforcement · suspense · friendship · family · audiobook · death
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Laura Purcell
3.92 · 128 ratings
adult · gothic · historical · fiction · historical-fiction · book · ghosts · industrial-era · horror · supernatural · spooky · paranormal · audiobook · mystery · suspense · dark · victorian · 21st-century · drama · female-author
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Kelly Creagh
3.92 · 108 ratings
mystery · fantasy · fiction · horror · retellings · young-adult · supernatural · book · urban-fantasy · gothic · romance · paranormal · magic · dark · ghosts · contemporary · action-adventure · friendship · dark-fantasy · high-school
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Wendy Webb
3.92 · 179 ratings
book · horror · supernatural · fiction · adult · historical-fiction · gothic · ghosts · suspense · paranormal · audiobook · mystery · contemporary · female-mc · spooky · fantasy · magical-realism · haunted-places · family · drama
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Shea Ernshaw
3.91 · 148 ratings
fiction · fantasy · book · young-adult · paranormal · contemporary · dark · mystery · spooky · magic · horror · gothic · romance · supernatural · audiobook · myths · witches-wizards · magical-realism · urban-fantasy · suspense
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Stuart Turton
3.84 · 191 ratings- The Witching Hour: From the creators of The Haunting Season and The Winter Spirits comes a spellbinding new collection of original haunted tales by Stuart Turton
- The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
- The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Stuart Turton
- The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
- The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
fiction · mystery · horror · adult · supernatural · crime · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · paranormal · murder · magical-realism · spooky · gothic · book · literary-fiction · suspense · fantasy · action-adventure · dark
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C.J. Cooke
3.82 · 112 ratings
audiobook · book · fiction · suspense · paranormal · gothic · supernatural · adult · horror · mystery · ghosts · spooky · historical · family · historical-fiction · fantasy · witches-wizards · myths · psychological · crime
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C.J. Tudor
3.82 · 173 ratings
fiction · adult · mystery · horror · psychological · audiobook · suspense · murder · spooky · book · crime · thriller · paranormal · dark · supernatural · contemporary · family · terror · killer · female-author
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Patton Oswalt
3.79 · 100 ratings
cosmic-horror · horror · myths · spooky · retellings · body-horror · holidays · fiction · mystery · young-adult · fantasy · ghosts · supernatural · gothic · anthologies
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Agustina Bazterrica
3.78 · 106 ratings
literary-fiction · contemporary · fiction · adult · horror · book · gothic · terror · dystopia · audiobook · poc-mc · latinx-mc · female-author · spooky · dark · sci-fi · romantic-love · religion · splatterpunk · poc-author
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Sarah Rayne
3.78 · 133 ratings
book · fiction · adult · horror · mystery · historical · gothic · spooky · supernatural · ghosts · suspense · paranormal · fantasy · historical-fiction · psychological · crime · haunted-places · family · revenge · small-town
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Iain Reid
3.66 · 129 ratings
fiction · mystery · adult · horror · spooky · dark · psychological · literary-fiction · book · audiobook · contemporary · suspense · drama · unreliable-narrator · male-author · thriller · 21st-century · paranormal · action-adventure · sad
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Clay McLeod Chapman
3.66 · 125 ratings
adult · horror · fiction · supernatural · spooky · book · anthologies · paranormal · audiobook · ghosts · gothic · contemporary · suspense · thriller · fantasy · mystery · crime · psychological · historical-fiction · magical-realism
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Andrew Michael Hurley
3.63 · 115 ratings- The Witching Hour: From the creators of The Haunting Season and The Winter Spirits comes a spellbinding new collection of original haunted tales by Andrew Michael Hurley
- The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Andrew Michael Hurley
- The Haunting Season: Eight Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights by Andrew Michael Hurley
- Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
- This Dreaming Isle by Andrew Michael Hurley
fiction · horror · spooky · supernatural · paranormal · mystery · adult · ghosts · gothic · fantasy · audiobook · historical-fiction · dark · anthologies · season-winter · folk-horror · historical · rural · myths · 21st-century
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Danielle Vega
3.62 · 123 ratings
book · young-adult · fiction · horror · supernatural · paranormal · contemporary · spooky · urban-fantasy · killer · fantasy · mystery · action-adventure · suspense · audiobook · witches-wizards · demons · dark · death · mental-illness
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Edgar Cantero
3.51 · 100 ratings
fantasy · fiction · humor · mystery · spooky · horror · young-adult · contemporary · crime · action-adventure · comedy · book · supernatural · urban-fantasy · suspense · paranormal · audiobook · lgbtq · dark · magical-realism
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Sarah Perry
3.41 · 106 ratings
gothic · adult · horror · fiction · audiobook · book · literary-fiction · historical · historical-fiction · mystery · fantasy · suspense · 21st-century · ghosts · spooky · magical-realism · female-author · friendship · paranormal · myths
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