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The genre represents “morbidity unchained, our most base instincts let free.”
According to Bustle, horror fiction provides an opening to process real-life hardships.
It teaches readers “how we respond to fear, anxiety, dread, and so on.”
However, out of the many truly-spooky reads, a few stand above the rest.
Here are our picks for the best books to devour on a dark and stormy night.
When a distant cousin arrives to court Constance, only Merricat senses a threat (viaPenguin Random House).
It’s a book filled with cozy dinners, forest foraging, and a generous helping of poison.
Reviewer David Barnett writes, “I’m envious of those that read it for the first time.”
“We Have Always Lived in the Castle” represents Shirley Jackson at her finest.
Together, they must determine who among them is the murderer or face extinction.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” was published in 1886.
It’s a truly chilling story, examining the things we fear most inside us all.
