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Chuck Wendig recommends
Almost Surely Dead (2024)Amina Akhtar"A shocking act of violence opens the door to a terrifying mystery in this eerie, addictive thriller from Amina Akhtar." The Forest Demands Its Due (2023)Kosoko Jackson"Strange magic, mad creatures, and cruel curses abound in this eerie tale of becoming. This book calls to you sure as the dark forest calls to Douglas - and if you know what's good for you, you'll answer that call." Bloom (2023)Delilah S Dawson"Delicate and murderous, Bloom is the perfect encapsulation of a subgenre I'd only heard of in theory but now exists in its final form: cozy horror. Delight in the berries, blood and cupcake frosting - find yourself enraptured by the farmers' market aesthetic as designed by the Mads Mikkelson version of Hannibal Lecter." The Water Outlaws (2023)S L Huang"This book lines up like a perfect, elegant equation--it's fast, furious, and adds up to one of the coolest, most crackin' reads this year." The Salt-Black Tree (2023)(Dead God's Heart, book 2)Lilith Saintcrow"Saintcrow's rough, rawboned prose paints a world not on the edge, but already over it, revealing an alternate history of America that is achingly relevant to the America in which we live. Simply put, Saintcrow doesn't f*** around." Fever House (2023)(Fever House Duology, book 1)Keith Rosson"Fever House is like being electrocuted with an awesome story and sharp, snapping prose. It somehow executes noir, pulp, spy thriller and visceral crime horror as one entire package and doesn't skip a beat doing it." Everything the Darkness Eats (2023)Eric LaRocca"LaRocca has conjured for us a mad, beautiful tale of dark magic, trauma and love, and how these things intertwine - this is an author in command of powerful narrative sorceries, and is deserving of your immediate attention." Malice House (2022)(Malice Compendium, book 1)Megan Shepherd"This book, like Malice House itself, contains many secrets, and you will read it voraciously to try to find and consume them all. May it compel you as swiftly as it compelled me." No Gods For Drowning (2022)Hailey Piper"Glorious and visceral, No Gods For Drowning drips with evocative prose and proves Hailey Piper to be a storyteller with wonderfully sharp teeth. This book sang to me, and if you let it, it will sing to you, too." Ghost Eaters (2022)Clay McLeod Chapman"A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addiciting read that draws you into it's descent from the first page." Hide (2022)Kiersten White"Equal parts hell-ride thriller and American fable, Kiersten White's HIDE runs you through a sinister child's game set in a nightmare amusement park, and it does so with gleeful, fiendish delight. I hung onto this book with bloodless knuckles, and I adored every spine-chilling second." The Fervor (2022)Alma Katsu"A haunting, harrowing slice of historical horror conjured by a masterful storyteller." Road of Bones (2022)Christopher Golden"This book is legit great. Golden is the master of what I think of as 'adventure horror.' People in strange places and extreme situations meeting terror at the edges of the world. Road of Bones is scary as hell and does not fuck around." The All-Consuming World (2021)Cassandra Khaw"Reminds me of the first time I read Snow Crash The All-Consuming World has that frenetic, urgent energy that doesn’t so much compel you to read further as it grabs you by the chin and drags you across the pages. Khaw has written a surly, sneering, zero-g, sharp-toothed poem of vulgarity and violence, and I am here for every electric word of it." Hummingbird Salamander (2021)Jeff VanderMeer"This is an astonishing book, topical and madly compelling. A timely, unsettling novel of obsession and descent--a thriller equal parts ecological and psychological, whose puzzle warns of a natural world on the edge of ruination. There's an urgency to it, but it's not preachy. VanderMeer shines in revealing our current dystopia." The Hollow Places (2020)T Kingfisher"Reads so fast and so effortless that you don t realize how in thrall you are to it. It s the sensation of being a little kid who stayed out too long past dinner and sure, you were having fun, but now it s a moonless night and the forest is dark and you are hopelessly lost. This is righteous, folkloric horror, and the devil is waiting in between these pages." Burn the Dark (2020)(Malus Domestica, book 1)S A Hunt"S.A. Hunt is a kickass storyteller conquering the zone between fantasy and horror. Keep an eye on this one, because they're just getting started." Seven Blades in Black (2019)(Grave of Empires, book 1)Sam Sykes"Gunslingers and mad mages and monsters, oh my. Sykes' latest is a brutal and vulgar epic yet still fun enough that - and I say this as the highest of compliments - makes me wish like hell it ends up with an adaptation into a role-playing game." Inspection (2019)Josh Malerman"A wonderfully mad bit of narrative knotwork, braiding together threads of The Handmaid’s Tale and BioShock with aplomb. Malerman is a master at unsettling youand keeping you off-balance until the last page is turned." Space Opera (2018)(Space Opera, book 1)Catherynne M Valente"SPACE OPERA is a book I really needed in this dour, dire age: Valente’s book contains a story and prose that is both electric and breathless, It has the heart of Douglas Adams and the soul of David Bowie. I loved it and it made me happy." The Oracle Year (2018)Charles Soule"Soule’s The Oracle Year is like a sliding puzzle, except every time you think you can predict what the image will be, new pieces slide into place. It’s a wonderfully mysterious thriller that proves Soule is as much a master of prose as he is of comic book script." The Armored Saint (2018)(Sacred Throne, book 1)Myke Cole"A dark fantasy tale with sharp teeth and a hard punch. Heloise is the hero we need, and Myke Cole is the writer to bring her transformation to light." River of Teeth (2017)(River of Teeth, book 1)Sarah Gailey"Weird and wonderful, River of Teeth proves handily why Sarah Gailey is a writer to watch." The Fold (2015)Peter Clines"That rare thriller that always keeps just one step ahead of the reader...a crackling, electric read." Broken Souls (2014)(Eric Carter, book 2)Stephen Blackmoore"Demons and dark magic and gods of death: what's not to like? Blackmoore's hard-charging prose hits like a bullet fired from a cursed gun...." The Three (2014)(Three , book 1)Sarah Lotz"One of the finest, freakiest horror novels I've read." Vicious (2013)(Villains, book 1)V E Schwab"An epic collision of super-powered nemeses. The writing and storycraft is Schwab's own superpower as this tale leaps off the page in all its dark, four-color comic-book glory." More recommendations Anthologies containing stories by Chuck Wendig
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