7 Historical Horror Books like The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

When 12-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr. kicks the son of the largest landowner in the heart of the Jim Crow South, he is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys.

It’s a shocking sentence for both Robbie and his sister, Gloria. Because there are rumors surrounding the school about boys going missing.

Immediately, Robbie knows the rumors are just the beginning. He’s been able to see ghosts since he was young and they are trying to show him the truth.

As Gloria desperately works to get Robbie released before something happens to him, Robbie has to learn the rules of the Reformatory before it’s too late.

As the wagon train known as the Donner Party make their way West, they are plagued by setbacks and misfortunes.

These might be bad luck or unfortunate circumstances. But when a little boy dies, the party can’t help but feel that something is stalking them.

The only reasonable answer is they’ve been cursed. And the beautiful Tamsen Donner must be a witch.

Except it’s too late to turn back, forcing them to follow an experimental route that will lead to one of the most disastrous and deadliest treks in American history.

In 1915, a dark shadow spread across America. The movie, The Birth of a Nation, increased activity in the Klan by tapping into the darkest thoughts and fears of white men.

They spread out across the country, not just to spread their hate, but to bring Hell to Earth.

Even though they’re demons, that doesn’t me they can’t die. And Maryse Boudreaux, one of the Harlem Hellfighter’s is determined to kill as many Ku Kluxes as she can.

The only question is, can Maryse stop the Klan before they’re successful in ending the world?

The HMS Terror is a steam-powered vessel with the 1845 Franklin Expedition searching for the legendary Northwest Passage. They have nothing but triumph on their minds.

Why wouldn’t they? They’re well equipped and well funded.

But when they enter their second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, they find themselves stranded. With the darkness closing in around them and their rations dwindling, they realize that there is something with them on the ice

When it becomes obvious the ship won’t keep them safe, the Captain and his men flee across the ice in a desperate attempt to survive, even though many of them fear that there is no escape.

It’s 1868 when a young Bram Stoker finds himself locked in a tower, trapped by an indescribable evil.

He only has crucifixes, holy water, a rifle, and his prayers. But this isn’t the first time he’s faced this evil.

As a sickly child, he was first tended by a strange woman named Ellen. Despite her odd behavior, she saved his life before disappearing from their lives forever.

But when his sister tells Bram that she saw Ellen again, his search for the truth leads him to the tower where, in his final moments, he desperately records everything he witnessed on his journey to uncover the truth.

Adelaide Henry is on the run. She carries with her a large steamer trunk that she always has to keep locked, otherwise people go missing.

It’s her secret sin, and it killed her parents.

Now she’s heading the Montana to take advantage of the government’s free land to those who can manage it. It’s the perfect solution to her problems.

But when she reaches her homestead, she finds that she’s actually not alone. And the secret she keeps locked in the trunk might be the only thing that helps her survive.

When Dana celebrates her 26th birthday with her new husband, the last thing she expects is to somehow find herself in the antebellum South. It doesn’t make any sense.

But when the white son of a plantation owner is drowning, Dana is ripped from her present to save him. Over time, she is summoned back, and each time she stays longer.

It’s a painful and dangerous existence made more arduous by never knowing if her life will end before she ever really had a chance for it to begin.