10 best books of horror

Fans of reading and tickling their nerves with atmospheric scenery, intense action and a story that excites the imagination are perfect books in the genre of horror or mysticism. In such worksinterest saved to the last pages, because it is always interesting to know what the matter is and what the hell is happening. Often, horrors carry psychological overtones, often fears that haunt heroes originate from childhood. While reading nightmares you can develop observation, intuition and even temper the psyche.

Perhaps, books in the horror genre are one of the best tools to artificially plunge into the world of fear and notably worry, since it is with a book in hand that you are left alone with your imagination and independently draw pictures of the plot in your head. Even more entourage can be achieved if you read the horrors of the night. To simplify your search, we have created a selection of the best frightening books, according to estimates on literary resources.

Top 10 best books of horror

10 Ice Kiss of Fear

Russian detective in the genre of mysticism will tell about a group of people consisting of 2 best friends (a horror writer and photographer), a father and a son, and a young male businessman, who by the will of fate in one bus that breaks down on an empty night road and following driver's advice, go hiking to the nearest village in order to spend the night there in a hotel.

Having settled in the hotel, they are trapped, from now on they will not be able to get out of it. Heroes every new day experiencing what they would like to forget forever and delete from their biographies. On the calendar year of 1983, the telephone connection does not catch, but messages come, not a single soul except them, but in the dining room every day someone leaves them with fresh food. They add fuel to the fire and 5 graves with their names found at the cemetery near the forest. The whole horror is that each hero has his own fear, originating from childhood.

9 Heart shaped box

The book “The Heart-Shaped Box” by Joe Hill, the son of Stephen King, was decided to be screened before it was released, which made it the most anticipated publication of 2007. In the story, rock star Jude Coyne, 54 years old, is in a creative crisis at sunset. One of the hero's hobbies is collecting occult objects related, for example, to witchcraft.

Jude via the Internet, with skepticism, makes a purchase of the costume of the deceased, to which the ghost is attached, and now, he gets a box in the shape of a heart, after which a series of terrible events begins, because the ghost has its own views on the new owner associated with past events. The plot keeps in suspense, a lot of attention is paid to the experiences of the heroes, the themes of children's injuries are raised. Although most of the book was written in the genre of mysticism and horrors and is full of bloody hard scenes, there was also room for a love line.

8 Witch Hammer

Peter. Evening. An educated, handsome 49-year-old man suddenly begins a chain of murders. He takes the lives of women, making it the most thought out the most unusual torture.He is convinced that he is doing the right thing. Next to the lifeless bodies, the killer leaves their passport to make it easier for law enforcement to identify women, and a message with the inscription "Witch", against which they give him the nickname Inquisitor.

The book is rich in episodes of the coven of modern witches, where they are soullessly cracking down on babies, causing damage, imposing curses. Some scenes can terrify impressionable readers because they contain bloodshed. The author best of all beat the scenery, worked through the plot to the details, the chronology of events, introduces the characters in detail and plunges into the atmosphere of mysticism. Can they get on the trail of a serial killer and catch him? Is it possible to justify his actions?

7 Wendigo, the demon of the forest. Hunting hour

Wendigo - creatures that will be the center of attention in the book of the Russian author Edward Verkin. They resemble people, but they are monstrously thin, their clothes are hanging on them with a bag, they are dirty, as if they were just out of the ground, white bulging eyes on which their pupils are barely visible appear on their sharp skull.

Interestingly, the story is on the face of a Rottweiler dog breed. The book is quickly read, not only because of the easy syllable, but also due to the small volume. The author is better known as a writer for a teenage audience, as in his works often the main characters are children. “Wendigo, the demon of the forest. Hour of Hunting ”will be the best reading in the genre of mysticism for the evening.

6 How was the hardened tin

One woman founded an underground business. Her lover's place has always been vacant, since previous men have always disappeared somewhere. Where? They became part of her business, or rather victims. The lady dismembers them and sells them. An illegal supply of organs for transplantology comes to mind, but it was not there. Such is the nightmarish truth of the bloody "business" that selling a person is much more profitable in parts than in whole.

The lady from the first love night cuts off parts of the body of men, depending on the wishes of the customer. Clients are people who have a high status in society, otherwise they would simply not afford it; here and the prime minister and deputy. The horror is that an enterprising lady helps her daughter, involved in the business since 15 years, to run a business. This brutal book in the horror genre of the Russian writer Alexander Shchyogolev teaches to fight for life, adapting even under the most difficult circumstances.

5 The Drowned One, or the Third Key

Aglaya, who has come to her grandmother, will bring fate to her long-time comrades, with whom she is united by events intertwined with a terrible history of a century ago. The plot will unfold in the plexus of 3 time periods: the beginning and the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. A quiet pond, located in an old estate in the Russian village, for 15 years hid a mechanical statue in its waters, which was popularly called the Sleeping Lady. Prior to this, she decorated the garden, and at her feet often found the corpses of women.

Tatiana Korsakova brilliantly managed to combine several genres at once - this is a detective story, and a mystic and an unobtrusive love affair, which makes the work the best reading material for women, because its volume is quite small. "Drowned, or the Third Key" will cause you to doubt everything and everyone. The dynamic plot will not let you close the book, you will empathize with the heroes and solve mystical riddles with them.

4 Well and pendulum

If you are a fan of small stories in the horror genre with a storyline where a person is trapped, then Edgar Allan Poe’s book The Well and the Pendulum will be the best option to read. Events take place in a dark chamber without a single ray of light. From a Spanish inquisitorial prison, a prisoner who was sentenced to death for his crime and commits his torture and torture experienced in it.

About torture of the Inquisition, which has always been famous for its sophistication, heard, perhaps, everyone. Here and the main character, even in 4 walls, at every step can wait for death, so he behaves very carefully. A chamber with a well in the center of it and a sharp pendulum on the ceiling — the prisoner himself will have to choose what he should die of. The author wants to show that as long as a person is alive, he will clutch at every straw in order to save his life, even knowing that death is inevitable.

3 The Master and Margarita

Do you like artworks with a love line? Do you appreciate a beautiful literary syllable brightened up with witty irony and intellectual humor? Are you interested in mystery and riddles? Then the book “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov is the best choice. She will turn the cliché ideas about Good and Evil. Woland appears in Moscow, the devil himself, in the company of a colorful retinue: Azazello, the cat of Hippo, the vampire Hella, and Koroviev-Fagot. But the role of evil in the work is occupied more likely by citizens with their sinful thoughts and deeds, but not as guests of the world of darkness.

Work on the creation of the book began in the 20s and lasted more than 10 years. As a result, the work remained unfinished. However, the immortal novel of the master of Russian literature by Mikhail Bulgakov, Master and Margarita, imbued with mysticism, despite the long prohibitions on publishing, still saw and fell in love with the whole world.

2 Wii

Wandering in the dark, 3 bursaks led by Homa Brut will stop to spend the night on the farm of an old witch. In order to save her own life, Khoma kills an old woman who turns out to be a young mural. In the last minutes of her life, she will ask her father to fulfill her last will: “Find the bursak Khomu Brut, let him read 3 nights in my sinful soul.”

If you love mysticism, the book will finally draw you away from the moment when demons begin to appear in the church, while reading the prayer for the departed mistress, devils, the coffin flies up, icons fall, the glass cracks ... forcing to read the work “Viy” by the Russian-Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol: why does evil in a holy place feel at home? Behind fantastic episodes lies philosophical, and sometimes even religious overtones, forcing you to think about conscientiousness, loyalty to the chosen path, about faith.

1 Pet cemetery

A nightmare can break into your life in any way. The family moves into a new home, but they don’t know what kind of mystic he is preparing for them. A graveyard for domestic animals is located near the dwelling, and behind it are the burials of the Mikmak tribe, where, according to local bikes, the devil is inhabited - Wendigo. Ghosts, revived animals, persecution by some people ... Your heart will freeze, Stephen King will make you feel the whole gamut of feelings: from compassion to horror that stirs the blood.

The characters are written brightly, they are constantly revealed from an unexpected side, it is interesting to get to know them, to know their past. This horror novel is considered by many to be the best creation of the author, and he himself has repeatedly noted that he considers “The Pet Cemetery” as his most terrible book. Having survived the events of the work, you will see that you should not be so tenaciously holding on to the past, you should be able to let go of it, and consider past mistakes as an experience and learn a lesson.

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Pet cemetery

Wii

The Master and Margarita

Well and pendulum

The Drowned One, or the Third Key

How was the hardened tin

Wendigo, the demon of the forest. Hunting hour

Witch Hammer

Heart shaped box

Ice Kiss of Fear

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