One City One Book Recommendations: Horror

If you run a One City One Book program and are looking for horror recommendations, we’ve got you covered!

For even more recommendations of all genres, check out this post and this Edelweiss catalog.

NIGHT’S EDGE by Liz Kerin
9781250835697
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NIGHT’S EDGE takes a bite out of vampire lore in this blood-soaked novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrous we can be to the ones we love most.

A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES by T. Kingfisher
9781250829818
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A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family.

OUR CROOKED HEARTS by Melissa Albert
9781250826381
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Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . This is a contemporary fantasy “so precise and enthralling that the only explanation is that Albert herself is a witch” (Booklist, starred review)

WILD SPACES by S. L. Coney
9781250866837
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Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets Lovecraftian horror in this foreboding, sensual coming-of-age story in which the corrosive nature of family secrets assumes eldritch proportions.

THE BOOK EATERS by Sunyi Dean
9781250810205
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Set in modern day UK, THE BOOK EATERS is a dark and fantastical story about a family who literally consume books for sustenance and the lengths one woman will go to in order to protect her son.

THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE by Caitlin Starling
9781250769589
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Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Caitlin Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished.