Horror Books have the best range of books. Whether you want contemporary or classic horror, or bone chilling, blood curdling horror, we have them all!

If you love horror then you're in the right place! Here we concentrate on - yep, you guessed it - horror books! We'll be writing reviews on those books we have read and invite you to share your reviews with us. We also search the internet to let you know where to buy the best horror books and who has the best bargains.

What is a Horror Book?

Difficult Question! There are many different types, from the classics of the original Frankinstein through the Point Horror Books and on to the likes of Stephen King. The Oxford Reference Dictionary quotes Horror as being "an intense feeling of loathing and fear, intense dislike or dismay", while the word comes from the Latin horrere which means shudder, hair stand on end. Of course everybody will have a differenct conception of horror and what makes their "hair stand on end".

Douglas Winter stated in his 1982 anthology Prime Evil, "Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction, meant to be confined to the ghetto of a special shelf in libraries or bookstores. Horror is an emotion." He was correct and his words have become a rallying cry for the modern horror writer.

There is a fine line between Horror Books and Science Fiction and Crime and Thriller books. Horror can be about the supernatural - werewolves, vampires and ghouls, but it doesn't have to be. A horror book can be any subject that will give you an emotional reaction of fear or dread, one that gets your adrenalin pumping.