Horror Books by Women
Build your house around my body : a novel
Kupersmith, Violet, author
2021
Spanning over fifty years, the fates of three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together. Written with wit, ambition, and playfulness, this novel takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes.
Cackle
Harrison, Rachel, 1989- author
2021
After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie accepts a teaching position in a small village upstate. Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming, magnetic Sophie, who takes a special interest in Annie. Annie can't help but gravitate toward the self-possessed Sophie, despite the fact that the rest of the townsfolk seem a little afraid of her. Sophie's appearance is uncanny and ageless, her mansion in the middle of the woods feels a little unearthly, and she does seem to wield a certain power - but she couldn't be - could she?
The deep
Katsu, Alma, author
2020
Someone, or something, is haunting the ship. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the passengers of the Titanic from the moment they set sail. Years later, Annie Hebbley, having survived that fateful night, works as a nurse on the sixth sailing of the Britannic, newly refitted as a hospital ship. When she happens across Mark Fletcher, now a soldier, she is at first thrilled and relieved to learn that he too survived the tragic night four years earlier. But soon his presence awakens deep-buried feelings and secrets - as they both discover that the terror may not yet be over.
The fervor
Katsu, Alma, author.
2022
1944. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. And when a disconcerting team of doctors arrive, Meiko and her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate, and it becomes clear to them that something more sinister is afoot, a demon from the stories of Meiko's childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already strange world.
The haunting of Alma Fielding : a true ghost story
Summerscale, Kate, 1965- author
2021
London, 1938. In Alma Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewellery appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a turtle materializes on her lap. The culprit is incorporeal. Nandor Fodor, a Hungarian ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research, arrives to investigate the poltergeist. But when he embarks on his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems.
The haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965, author
1959
The story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers -- and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
Hide : a novel
White, Kiersten, author
2022
Fourteen contestants, including Mack, a homeless shelter resident who lost everything, embark on a seven-day competition and the chance to win $50,000 if they can successfully play hide-and-seek in an abandoned amusement park without being found and eliminated.
House of Hollow
Sutherland, Krystal, author
2021
"Iris and Vivi work to uncover their dark, dangerous, and possibly magical past when their older sister Grey goes missing."-- Provided by publisher.
House of salt and sorrows
Craig, Erin A., author
2019
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last -- the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge -- and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sisters' deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who -- or what -- are they really dancing with? When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family -- before it claims her next.
Near the bone
Henry, Christina, 1974- author
2021
"A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducing horror novel from the national bestselling author Christina Henry. Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's something in the woods that wasn't there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. William won't want them there, and terrible things happen when William is angry. But the creature in the woods is angry, too..."-- Provided by publisher.
The unleashed
Vega, Danielle, author
2020
"Hendricks discovers that even though Steele House is gone, the hauntings in Drearfield are far from over -- and it's up to her to stop them."-- Provided by publisher.
The woods are always watching : a novel
Perkins, Stephanie, author
2021
When two girls go backpacking deep in the woods of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, things go very wrong when they cross paths with a serial killer.