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    11 Disturbing Horror Books About Cults

    11 Disturbing Horror Books About Cults

    Join if you dare.

    Cults

    By MacKenzie Stuart & Lisa Quigley

    Horror Books

    The Most-Anticipated Horror Books Coming in 2025

    The Most-Anticipated Horror Books Coming in 2025

    By Courtney Hunter-Stangler

    Horror Books

    Think You Know Stephen King? These 7 Books for King Superfans Might Prove You Wrong

    Think You Know Stephen King? These 7 Books for King Superfans Might Prove You Wrong

    By Orrin Grey

    True Crime Books

    12 True Crime Books that Changed the Genre Forever

    12 True Crime Books that Changed the Genre Forever

    By Jena Brown

    Gothic Horror

    16 Creepy Robert McCammon Books That Will Keep You Awake At Night

    16 Creepy Robert McCammon Books That Will Keep You Awake At Night

    By Orrin Grey & Kelsey Christine McConnell

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    Paranormal

    The Chrysalis Warns You to Stay Out of the Basement

    The Chrysalis Warns You to Stay Out of the Basement

    The season's biggest horror novel sees a millennial couple wrangle with the evil entity lurking beneath their feet.

    By Olivia Mason

    Gothic Horror

    H.P. Lovecraft Stars in Jacqueline Baker's Creepy Horror Novel

    H.P. Lovecraft Stars in Jacqueline Baker's Creepy Horror Novel

    The Broken Hours offers a Lovecraftian take on the classic haunted house story.

    By Olivia Mason

    True Crime Books

    Who Really Killed Nancy Pfister with an Axe and Hammer?

    Who Really Killed Nancy Pfister with an Axe and Hammer?

    In a controversial true crime book, Nancy Styler maintains that she played no part in the murder of her socialite landlord.

    By Olivia Mason

    Linda Wolfe

    5 Linda Wolfe Books for True Crime Junkies

    5 Linda Wolfe Books for True Crime Junkies

    The respected critic and writer used her journalistic eye to explore the dark corners of humanity.

    By Jessica Ferri

    Horror Books

    6 Most Horrifying Dean Koontz Books

    6 Most Horrifying Dean Koontz Books

    Prepare yourself for the scare of a lifetime.

    By Jessica Ferri

    Paranormal

    Sister Act: The Bizarre Drowning of Ocey Snead

    Sister Act: The Bizarre Drowning of Ocey Snead

    When police looked into a young mother's death, their suspicions kept turning to a trio of creepy, veiled sisters.

    By Shannon Raphael

    Thriller Books

    13 Mystery and Thriller Books That Inspired Films

    13 Mystery and Thriller Books That Inspired Films

    These books leapt from the page to the screen—and kept our hearts racing.

    By Aliza Polkes

    Serial Killer Books

    Nightmare Fuel: A Serial Killer Stalks One Man’s Dreams

    Nightmare Fuel: A Serial Killer Stalks One Man’s Dreams

    A murderer once thought to be dead is very much alive in this thriller. 

    By Sarah Mangiola

    True Crime Books

    Watch Mommy Die: The Sickening Crimes of Stephen Stanko

    Watch Mommy Die: The Sickening Crimes of Stephen Stanko

    In 2005, an ex-convict brutally murdered his girlfriend—and made her daughter watch.

    By Allison Wild

    True Crime Books

    7 True Crime Books About Victims Who Escaped Their Captors

    7 True Crime Books About Victims Who Escaped Their Captors

    These victims survived a living nightmare...

    By Jessica Ferri

    Audiobooks

    13 Chilling True Crime Audiobooks to Listen to Right Now

    13 Chilling True Crime Audiobooks to Listen to Right Now

    Find your next obsession.

    By Aliza Polkes

    True Crime Books

    Bart Whitaker and the Savage Murder of His Own Family

    Bart Whitaker and the Savage Murder of His Own Family

    The unfurling of this son’s web of lies led him to hatch a devious murder plot.

    By Shannon Raphael

    Thriller Books

    The Terror: The Doomed Expedition to the Northwest Passage

    The Terror: The Doomed Expedition to the Northwest Passage

    Dan Simmons’s thriller is a chilling re-imagination of what happened to Sir Franklin's long lost crew.

    By Allison Wild

    Haunted Dolls

    A Nightmare Come True: Roxanne Doll and the Puget Sound Child-Killer

    A Nightmare Come True: Roxanne Doll and the Puget Sound Child-Killer

    Broken Doll recounts the brutal child-murder that shocked Everett, Washington in 1995.

    By Shannon Raphael

    True Crime Books

    The Truth is in the Blood: The Murder of Tabatha Bryant

    The Truth is in the Blood: The Murder of Tabatha Bryant

    Kevin Bryant claimed he had nothing to do with his wife's murder—but the crime scene told a different story.

    By Olivia Mason

    Cults

    7 Enduring Cult Horror Books

    7 Enduring Cult Horror Books

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    By Jessica Ferri

    Thriller Books

    A Twisted Killer Haunts the City of Chicago from Beyond the Grave

    A Twisted Killer Haunts the City of Chicago from Beyond the Grave

    Se7en meets Silence of the Lambs in this acclaimed serial killer thriller.

    By The Lineup Staff

    Serial Killers

    Inside the Crimes and Mind of the Baton Rouge Serial Killer

    Inside the Crimes and Mind of the Baton Rouge Serial Killer

    For over ten years, Derrick Todd Lee managed to escape Louisiana police—and murder seven women. 

    By Olivia Mason

    Unsolved Crimes

    Gone in the Dark: The 40-Year Hunt for the Golden State Killer

    Gone in the Dark: The 40-Year Hunt for the Golden State Killer

    Michelle McNamara’s obsessive search for the man who terrorized California during the 1970s and ‘80s is chronicled in her book, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. 

    By Sarah Mangiola

    Lizzie Borden

    Lizzie Borden’s Secret Motive for Murder?

    Lizzie Borden’s Secret Motive for Murder?

    A romantic relationship gone awry and troubles at home could explain why many still believe Lizzie Borden killed her parents.

    By Sarah Mangiola

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