Jumpstart Your Reading Resolutions with the Best Horror Novellas of 2022

Blast into the New Year with these terrifying bite-sized books.

best 2022 novellas

It’s the bright, shiny New Year. That magical time when your reading goals are new and your TBR feels (kind of) manageable. You swear that this year, you will tackle the backlist. This year, you’ll finally read all the books you own.

But then...you also just got some new bookstore gift cards, and the temptation is just too much. You're a book collector, after all.

Luckily, we here at The Lineup have a solution: the best novellas of 2022. Sure, you might have to buy some new books, but we’re almost positive you had your eye on these already. Plus, novellas are typically pretty fast reads. So by smashing through these stories, you’ll jump-start your 2023 reading goals—and set yourself up for success!

We found nine of the absolute best horror novellas released in 2022 that we promise you do not want to miss.