The title of Comeau’s previous novel would have worked here just as well: the gory killings are one bloody thing after the other, stacking up as a reminder that we’ve created a prolific genre around watching kids get murdered in inventive ways.Ĥ9.
A maniac employed at his bible camp has other intentions. Eleven-year-old Martin is used to entrails-his mother does special-effect makeup for horror movies-but would like to keep his inside of his body. But The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved gets the nod for importing the genre from film into prose while layering in subtle, smart commentary on our thirst for teen blood. Joey Comeau’s first horror outing, One Bloody Thing After Another, is perhaps creepier and more unsettling than this summer-camp slasher. The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved by Joey Comeau (2014) Without further ado, we present our choices for the best horror novels of all time.ĥ0. We’re prepared for you to question our choices, we ask only that you leave the chainsaw at home before doing so. And while we kept an eye on the diversity of our featured authors, the inclusion of women, authors of color and queer creators came naturally as we gathered the best of the best. We narrowed our focus to prose novels, so please don’t ask after The Books of Blood or Uzumaki. One (obvious) author makes five(!) appearances, and easily could have qualified for a few more another has written just one novel during his decades-long career. Ghosts, serial killers, great heaving monsters, the loss of self-control, plagues, impossible physics and a creepy clown all figure into our countdown, with entries spanning from the 1800s to the last few years.
And what is scary? What might shock one reader is laughable to another. If it’s meant purely to scare, then some of the heftier books on this list would have wracked up a body count, terrifying readers to death over 700 pages or more.
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