Best Horror Books for Women

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

by Joyce Carol Oates

A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indisc...

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Drowning Girl

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Imp, a struggling schizophrenic, fights to determine whether or not the strange mythological creatures she meets are due to her condition or are from something else entirely. India Morgan Phelps—Imp to her friends—is try...

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House:...

My Soul to Keep

by Tananarive Due

When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet vi...

Carrie

by King, Stephen

The story of misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Repressed by a domineering, ultra-religious mother and tormented by her peers at school, her efforts to fit in...

Audrey’s Door

by Sarah Langan

2009 Bram Stoker Award winner. Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all pote...

Come Closer

by Sara Gran

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking...

The Castle of Los Angeles

by Lisa Morton

Theatre director Beth Ortiz is the newest resident of The Castle, an exclusive Los Angeles artists’ community. Anxious actors aren’t all Beth has to worry about in her new space, however, for The Castle has a secret hist...

Slights

by Kaaron

When Stevie Searle almost dies in the accident that kills her mother, she doesn't see a shining path or a golden light. Instead, she sees everyone she's ever slighted, waiting to take a piece of her in a cold, dark room....

Haunted

by Tamara Thorne

Feed

by Mira Grant

Thinner Than Thou

by Kit Reed Kit Reed

The Unseen

by Alexandra Sokoloff

After experiencing a precognitive dream that ends her engagement and changes her life forever, a young psychology professor from California decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University in North Carolin...

Rebecca

by Daphne duMaurier

The Restorer

by Amanda Stevens

Water Witch

by Deborah LeBlanc

People are disappearing in the mysterious bayous of Louisiana and its up to a local water witch, a woman with powers of divination, to try to find them before more people disappear.

Anna Dressed in Blood

by Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he mee...

The Taken

by Sarah Pinborough

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

by Carrie Ryan

In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fen...

Flowers in the Attic

by V.C. Andrews

Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. In 1993, Flowers in t...