Best Noir Horror Books

The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories

by Lovecraft, Howard Phillips

This is one of those books that if you give any plot lines – you give away the story. Suffice it to say that this dark and enticing set of stories are perfectly written and are an excellent way of getting to know Lovecra...

The Rats in the Walls

by Lovecraft, H. P.

The Rats in the Walls By Howard Phillips Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of horror, madness, and historic cannibalism. Following the death of his son, a Massachusetts man returns to his family's ancestral home in...

The Disassembled Man

by Nate Flexer

Double Indemnity

by James M. Cain

Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she want...

Desperation

by King, Stephen

Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Miners at the China Pit have accidental...

The Dead Letters

by Tom Piccirilli

Five years ago, Eddie Whitt’s daughter Sarah became the victim of a serial killer known as Killjoy, and Whitt vowed to hunt him down—no matter what the cost. But the police have given up. And Killjoy has stopped killing…...

The Midnight Road

by Tom Piccirilli

The Blonde by Duane Swierczynski

by Deanna Raybourn

The Electric Church

by Jeff Somers

In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contem...

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:...

A Prayer for the Dying

by Stewart O'Nan

Set in leafy Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying opens harmlessly on a languid summer day; only slowly do events reveal themselves as sinister, bloom gently into a shared nightmare, as...

Cape Fear

by John D. MacDonald

**MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES!** starring Amy Adams and Javier Bardem 'The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller' - Stephen King A dark, psychological thriller, first published in 1957 as The Executioners...

Falling Angel

by William Hjortsberg

A spellbinding novel of murder, mystery, and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York private eye against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced. For Harry Angel, a routing missing persons case soon tu...

The Screwtape Letters

by Lewis, C. S.

The Screwtape Letters consists of letters written from a “superior” devil to a junior devil (Wormwood) about how to lead a human soul away from The Enemy (God). Screwtape is a retired and wise tempter, or “devil”. The b...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

Lullaby

by Chuck Palahniuk

"Carl Streator is a solitary widower and fortyish newspaper reporter who is assigned to do a series of articles on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In the course of this investigation, he discovers an ominous thread: the pr...

Dracula

by Stoker, Bram

Dracula will always reign as the true master vampire, the one creature in horror and fantasy who can simultaneously seduce and terrify. And don't let yourself think this is an archaic story just because the novel was pub...

Red

by Jack Ketchum

When teenagers kill his old dog for no reason, Avery Ludlow, a quiet man with a hidden past, demands that justice be done. Nobody listens, and he decides to settle it himself. A short, tense revenge story.

The Fever Kill

by Tom Piccirilli