All My Favourite Horror Books
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The distinction you made between events that are scary to the reader and things that are scary to the characters made me realise I much prefer the former. Thank you for this list, I got some great recommendations from it! ❤
Reading Carrie made me feel overwhelmed with hopelessness. I felt trapped in her circumstance with her mother and her peers. I have never wanted to give someone a hug more than Carrie
Not only did I love this video because of the subject matter but the satisfaction I got by having read so many of these and loving basically all of them. I feel accomplished. 👩🏻🏫
"horror isn't a genre; it's a feeling."
POV: you’ve never read any of those books and have heard Kayla talk about them countless times but you still enjoy an hour of listening to her talk about them yet again (also the graphic design for the book attribute stickers is top notch)
Phenomenal job, I really liked the badges and was so happy to see Our Wives Under the Seas on the list, one of the books that has resonated the longest with me over this year.
"Low plot, high ambiguity" is just my life
😂😂😂 same
This gives me hope that there may indeed be a market for my high-concept, slow-burn horror
I have loved learning that my horror choices are typically ‘That’s not horror’ 😂 if you do another future video with this badge included I would immediately add the book to my TBR xx
How are you so smart and always so succinct in your synopses of books? It is truly something to admire. ❤️
I enjoyed how you describe each book without giving away too much information. Your passion for reading and choice of words in your reviews made me make a list of books I want to read and got me following your site to see more reviews
i absolutely loved COMFORT ME WITH APPLES! in my top 5 books of all time. GO INTO THIS ONE COMPLETELY BLIND. it's a SUPER SHORT novella (112 pages) and has an uncanny valley creeping horror tone the entire time. it's amazing!!!! the audiobook is excellent as well and adds a lot to the story. PLEASE give this one a shot!
One of my faves too. 'Why would I lie to you when the truth will hurt you so much more?' 🐍
Same here!! Do you have any recommendations since I loved this, too? I haven't found anything to scratch the itch that it left behind!
@@slh9246 have you read 'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Boat of Her Own Devising' By the same author? If you like the lyric elements there's 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern and if you like creation myths with a twist there's 'One Good Story, That One' by Thomas King.
@@nanimaonovi2528 Thank you SO much! I'm checking them all out from the library. Have a great day!
@@slh9246 I forgot Nghi Vo, if you like the dark elements and the fluidity of a story depending on who gets to tell it there's 'The Tiger Came Down the Mountain'. Bloodthirsty tiger women anyone?
I'm one of those "never, ever going to pick these up because horror is not my thing" people, but I love watching all your videos! It helps me as a librarian to hear about books to recommend outside my normal genres, plus I enjoy hearing your descriptions of why you like certain things.
Oh I really LOVE the way you did this video. 😍The coin idea was so nice and easy to understand. Then breaking them down into the three levels: world encompassing horror, limited space horror and horror of the mind.. so brilliant. Well done!
So wild how you interpreted The Hollow Places. That book scared the crap out of me! I never once thought it was silly or cozy haha! Thanks again for a great roundup of horror.
Right?? I thought it was so creepy!
I can’t wait to see that as a movie. The scene when she is running the gauntlet down the hall of taxidermy is so cinematic.
@@krisprepolec5616 I didn't know they were making it a movie! That's awesome!
@@wickedbookwitch just wishful thinking, sadly.
Great List, I wrote down 13 of them to pickup when I head out to the book store.
I appreciated the spectrum of all-encompassing to within-the-mind! Also the coins !! such a nice visual
As someone who read Cujo for her 7th grade book report in the 80’s I am so happy to see horror having a moment. I have always enjoyed my community of horror weirdos, and excited to share the weirdness with a larger group. Read to please your dark little heart 🖤
I needed this. A lot of horror books I've read this month have not been it for me. So this is perfect!! I'm glad you seperated "scary for the reader" and "scary for the characters" because I learnt this month I need books that scare me, the reader. Literally do not care if it scares the character.
I love love love the format of this video; the whole exploring a genre with a view to the styles and tropes that draw you to them and how they all touch on those. The medallions are so fun and helpful. Love it!
Thank you for calling comfort me with apples a horror!! Totally agree and I think it's silly that people don't think that. Also this thing between us sounds like citizen Kane and I'm totally down to read it.
House of Leaves is written in such a way that I was literally afraid while reading the parts in the dark wherever....and I was literally afraid to walk around my home with the lights off.
I just read Come Closer by Sara Gran and I devoured it in two sittings. I’m usually a slow reader. I actually want to read it again I was so impressed. And I tend not to re-read a book so soon due to my endless tbr list. Really striking read, this one.
Came to get some suggestions on new horror, and the first one was my favorite read of 2022 and the next was my favorite read of 2023(so much so I drove an hour to get my copy of it signed by him!)
Excellent list over all (a lot I’ve read) but many more I haven’t!
I loved the way you organized this. Such a good mix of recommendations!
Great video! If you don’t find Horror scary but want to be scared I think you need to look for terror books. Terror often for the audience and horror for the characters? “Terror is the feeling of dread and apprehension at the possibility of something frightening, while horror is the shock and repulsion of seeing the frightening thing.”
I don't really understand that, the intent of horror only being to personally scare you. When you read romance books, are you meant to personally fall in love? When you read fantasy, do we expect to get powers? People treat horror sooo strangely to me. I really like what you do in this video, though! It's nice to see just more conversations around horror instead of just "scary or nah". Horror is so much more complex than that.
While I personally agree that the intent of horror shouldn’t be to scare you, I understand why it’s often defined that way. It’s not a 1:1 comparison comparing horror to romance or fantasy, because horror is a feeling. Romance and fantasy aren’t feelings. If other book genres were also named after feelings (sad, excited, etc.), there would be an expectation that those books would make you feel that way. But, horror has obviously evolved and changed so much and has become much more than a feeling.
@@briannasaumure108 See that whole "horror is a feeling" I think is just a way to kind of diminish the genre. How is romance not a feeling? Your comment is so well thought out and I sooo appreciate it, but I just don't agree with this sentiment at all. This is totally what I meant with ''people treat horror strangely". But, maybe it's the expectation, like you're saying? Like, it's a genre but people see it as just a feeling so if it doesn't evoke that, it didn't do it's job? (also, in no way am I saying interpreting a genre is wrong or how people feel about books is wrong. I just struggle to understand that thinking, if that makes sense).
And more with the romance and fantasy. If you don't see the chemistry with a couple in a romance novel, you don't then claim it's not romance. If the fantasy system doesn't make sense, it doesn't stop it from being a fantasy book. But if people don't "feel the horror", it makes it not a horror book? Again, totally 100% okay if/when people do this, I just don't get it.
@@theadora1693 Again, I completely agree with your sentiment, I guess I was just trying to explain why I understand the logic behind horror being treated differently. I think romance can absolutely be a feeling, but I think the difference would be that horror was exclusively used as a descriptor for a feeling before it was used as a genre label. I imagine people who treat horror differently are tied to the "classic" or "traditional" form of horror, which was initially created to evoke that feeling. Once again, I completely agree with you, I was just playing devil's advocate because I didn't think the comparison to fantasy, for example, was totally fair. Of course people who read fantasy don't expect to get powers, just like people who read horror don't expect to become possessed.
@@theadora1693 I certainly don't think people should be saying a book isn't horror if it doesn't make you feel the horror. But I guess this is a bit of a different argument than your last comment (when you said that people might say a horror not evoking the feeling "didn't do it's job"). I think it would be totally fair for somebody to feel that a horror book didn't do it's job if it didn't scare them, just like I think it would be totally fair for somebody to feel that a romance book didn't do it's job because the couple sucked. But that's completely different than someone denying its label in that genre. I thought your initial comment was about people rating or discussing horror a certain way based on whether or not it scared them, not about people denying that certain books are horror.
Great list! LaToyna McQueen is a professor at my college and it's so cool to see her book on your list!
Okay that is so dope!! When the Reckoning Comes is an incredible book. I hope your school is super proud to have her there, I need her to write something new 😊
20:38 "next up on the lake..." 😂
The way you broke this video down is perfection! I have a pen and paper and writing down all the books I need to read! ❤❤❤📚
I've been on a huge horror kick lately and this video was just what I needed!!
I love your useful little stickers in the corner! The way you categorized the genre is also so helpful for figuring out what kind of books I would be interested in. :) A+ video
Horror is becoming my favorite genre for novels. Amazing video, thank you.
I read Moon of The Crusted Snow because of you and I loved it! Slow burn for sure but I really enjoyed it. Wilder Girls wasn’t my favorite but I see why people like it.
I really loved the use of the coins in this video!
I am obsessed with Jade in My Heart is a Chainsaw. She feels so real to me. And slow burn horror might be my new favorite because the payoff was SO GOOD.
I picked up My Heart Is a Chainsaw due to your love for it, and I loved it too. I also really enjoy Come Closer. I will definitely be reading a few more of these, thanks for the great video as always
When the Reckoning Comes is so slow and I was almost going to DNF it but the build up and conclusion was amazing. So glad I stuck with it because it was chilling and I loved it.
And now I have even more books that i want to read! Actually there are a bunch of these that I already have on my shelves (or very recently acquired) that I haven't read yet and am even more excited to get around to! Also I totally know what you mean about the fear and pressure of recommending books. Whenever someone says they are going to read something from me I am terrified since I know people have very different tastes!! lol.
Thank you for a comprehensive list. I am exploring genres outside my usual preferences and this list gives me a good starting place to read the themes I usually enjoy and to also begin to branch out.
Not my fave booktuber releasing her fave horror books just as I am getting into the horror genre!! 🎉🎉 I was fully ready to go through your back catalogue of vids and note them down 😂
Same!!!
This was a fantastic video Kayla! I love how you categorised these (scope, scary-to-the-reader vs scary-to-the-characters, the badges); it really helps me to decide which ones I'd be interested in.
I would personally love a video of recommendations from the "it's not horror" category. I really love the ones that teeter on the edge of genres, whether it'd be Kingfishers humor-horror, or what I'd like to call melancholic ghoststories like Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour.
I never cry and officially cried my head off at the end of My Heart Is A Chainsaw. I bonded so hard with Jade. And that last chapter, my heart!!!!!
I know!
It’s so fun that I’ve read so many of these based on your recommendation and have pretty much enjoyed every one that you recommended.
This was great! I definitely got a few new recs I had never heard of and am excited to pick up (Tinfoil Butterfly and Come Closer). I LOVED My Heart is a Chainsaw and I've been itching to read more of SGJ's works ever since I read that last year. I've had The Only Good Indians on my TBR cart for a while now waiting for my dad to be ready to buddy read it with me haha. The way you distinguish different types of horror in this video was wonderful, and it helped me be able to categorize and understand the intent behind certain books more.
You might like the short story" A Haunted House is a wheel Upon Which Some are Broken" By Paul Tremblay - it's like a choose your own adventure book. It is found in the book: Phantoms- Haunting Tales from the Masters of the Genre
I've barely read any horror, but I've started to play with the idea of getting more into the genre. This video really gave me a lot of recommendations and I really like how you ordered it by the "size of the setting" or however it was called. Definitely think that the ones in the more narrow space, like the mind, are the ones that I'm the most intrigued by.
I’m back to watch this a second time for more recommendations. I love that you have The Tommyknockers on your bookshelf! When I see a book I haven’t read in 20 years but still remember it vividly, that’s saying something. I would love if you did this style of video without cutting it off at 5 years. Or if you mashed this style with your way of picking a certain number of books and doing a vlog style of reading them and your thought. But chose some of your all time favorite horror from the past and reread them to see if they hold up now.
I've added a bunch of these to my TBR! This was great 😊
House of Leaves is so good! It's such a fun reading experience. A friend begged me to read it and lent it to me several years ago. I finally bought my own copy and I can't wait to reread it.
So far out of the one's I've read from this list, I think I've loved them all! Makes me excited to continue exploring horror. I'm halfway through Catherine House now, and "blurry" and gothic is a good way to describe it.
Love this video. I read The Only Good Indians for your book club and ever since then SGJ solidified himself as one of my fav authors. The Last Final Girl was SO good, but I agree it's a certain audience for that one. My SGJ section of my bookshelf is my favorite. All thanks to you! 🙌
I'm obsessed with the ambiguity, self aware, etc pins!! And the way u ordered these books. You get very creative so I'm entertained while watching and getting really good books too put on my tbr 🙂🙃
Also, have u read Revelator by Darryl Gregory? I think you'd really like it based on these recommendations!
I am truly the biggest scaredy cat and can’t handle reading horror but I did watch the whole thing because I love the way you talk about books 😂 great video! 💕
I was watching and was shocked by how many of your favorite horrors are also my favorite horrors… then I realized I get 90% of my reading recs from you. 😅
I'm also not scared by horror books and that's not why I read them. I just think horror is such a fun and creative genre. So many different subgenres also! I love slashers/creature feature, gothic and sci-fi horror in particular (Into the drowning deep is objectivly the best book ever, don't at me). Don't love psychological stuff so much as it's not what I look for in horror. I will also never understand why people love Tender is the flesh, as a vegan it's the most illogical book ever.
Omg this is the first time I've ever seen Alyssa Cole's When No One Is Watching on a favorites list!!! It was my top read of 2020!❤️
Hated it but wanted to love it
ok but the most scary thing to me in this video is the moon on your shirt. I can't stop staring at it and I can see how it could be and probably IS cute but I just hate it so much lmao
(The sweater as a whole looks great tho and I really love the use of those coins in the video, so useful!
The books you vibe with are very similar to mine. I'm always super excited to pick up books you liked to love ☺😁
We have such similar thoughts and taste in horror and it makes me so happy to hear your thoughts and you talk about your favorite horror books.
I feel like people either love or hate House of Leaves, and that terrifies me 😂I keep adding it to and removing it from my TBR
I’ve read quite a few books on this list but my favourite is probably My heart is a chainsaw. I read it in August this year and it’s definitely the best book of 2022 for me, I don’t think any book could possibly beat it at this point. Although I’ve also very much loved The pallbearers club!
My Heart is a Chainsaw is going to always be one of my all time faves. Jade is one of the best narrators I've read in a long time. I feel like a lot of people don't like it but those of us that do, it's like a top fave 🥰
I'm going to be making a twenty-four hour reading vlog over Halloween, and both The Year of the Witching and Sorrowland are on my TBR, probably because of you haha
Thank you for this video! Making my tbr list now :)
I've been meaning to delve more into horror so I'm looking forward to coming back to this video for inspiration!
I just listened to the audiobook for Goddess of Filth this week in one sitting and it was SO good. I loved that it had both paranormal and human nature horror in it. Very good time
I fit in that category that does not and will not enjoy this genre but watched the whole video anyway. I do love reading romance once in a while, though, and I enjoyed watching the romance videos you just put out and wanted to watch more about books you enjoy, hence why I am here on this video. I love seeing people get excited about things they love 😄
Thank you for adding to my tbr list prayers and thoughts for you and your family love your family friend John ❤❤❤❤
I read Comfort Me with Apples because of you and LOVED it….definitely see why you’d struggle with the placement in this ranking system though 😂
I think I might actually try to conquer House of Leaves soon! I tried before but the book was definitely smarter than me. I had the hardest time keeping up with the different storylines and loooong footnotes. I’m determined though!
You are my go to for thriller and horror books and I haven’t been let down yet
I'm not really a horror reader, but I'm going to be picking up The Hollow Places this weekend for a book club, so we'll see how it goes! At least I already know I like T. Kingfisher's writing so I'm hopeful.
So wild to me that I've been subscribed to Kayla for so long and only just recently started watching her only to find out that she is actually my booktube soulmate with the most similar book taste to mine, at least as it relates to horror, which is my primary genre.
It's funny cause I very rarely get scared by books, though I do love horror. And I actually got really scared by The Hollow Places, which for you was cozy. But for me there was something about that book that was existentially scary, 1. getting lost in a place and not knowing how to get back because everything looks so similar, that felt completely hopeless, as opposed to let's say getting lost in a forest and at least still having the hope that you will recognize something or at least go in a clear direction. and 2. the creatures that lived in that in between place also scared the sh*t out of me.
Also, this is a phenomenal list with so many of my favorites! The Book of the Most Precious Substance was one of my faves from last year. I bought a 'Jade Daniels is my final girl' tshirt and finished Don't Fear the Reaper already, ofc loved The Only Good Indians. The Year of the Witching was also super great, loved The Hacienda and Ring Shout and When No One is Watching. Some I didn't like so much When the Reckoning Comes felt very emotional distant to me. But I did add a bunch of titles to my list!
This video is exceptional! Thank you! I'm interested in getting into horror and this list is perfect.
I don’t read too much horror, but I’ve definitely read some of these! I’ve read A DOWRY OF BLOOD, SORROWLAND, THE HACIENDA, COMFORT ME WITH APPLES, WILDER GIRLS, and a few others. I think I prefer fantasy horror, gothic horror, or horror with social commentary. THE HACIENDA was one of my favorite books I’ve read this year! I thought the writing was absolutely beautiful. I also loved WILDER GIRLS when I read it in 2020. There’s some great YA and Adult horror coming out in 2023 as well! Thank you for this video! 💜
love the spooky recommendations 👻🎃💖
Heck yes. I’ve been waiting for a new Kayla video. Day made.
I don’t read much horror but glad to see that I have at least read some of these and have a couple on my TBR shelf! Maybe I should get to them sooner rather than later 🎃📚
I just read the translated novella “You Should Have Left” and I think you might really enjoy this horror! (Kinda the shining vibes ish but super unsettling)
I just finished this one this week! I very much liked it. The shining is a good comparison. You really feel like you're a part of the narrator's loss on reality. I liked how unreliable a narrator he was.
I'm currently reading "My Heart is a Chainsaw" and I'm really enjoying it!
love the shoutout at the end to the non horror readers who just love your videos because I did in fact watch this whole thing with no plans to read any of them haha
As someone who's trying to read more contemporary horror, I very much appreciate this list. My bank account, however, did not 😂
library, my friend.
If you like cosmic horror, I recommend The Outside by Ada Hoffman! It's sapphic, it has an autistic MC, there are AI gods and angels??? It's super strange, but has that strange horror element in it with the physics/sci-fi elements.
LOVE moon of the crusted snow - can't wait for the sequel!
YESSS Catherine House is one of my favorites!!!!!
Dowry of Blood is one of my favorite books I read this year
Yay a new Kayla vid!!! 🥺I hope you are doing well 💛✨
Have you read When Things Get Dark the Shirley Jackson inspired anthology that came out last year edited by Ellen Datlow? If not I think you’d really enjoy it. Josh Malerman and Paul Trembley have stories in it. They are all so unsettling and wonderful! 😊
I loooooved the house at the bottom of the lake so when you said cosmic horror I immediately ran to google to find more books like it
This video is so thoughtful and perceptive! Automatic subscribe!
my goal is to read all of these and do the ultimate test to see how our tastes align
shoot i forgot House of Leaves was on here nvm
Oh my gosh seeing IT on your bookshelf is just screaming to me! I have it on audible and trying to listen but I really want to actually read along with it!! My absolute favorite stories by Stephen king.
Just from the get, I love the way you are organizing this video.
i was so anticipating this, day made!! ❤❤
I've heard that the novella 'You Should Have Left' by Daniel Kehlmann is very similar to House of Leaves (particularly the Navidson Record) if you're looking for something similar :)
I just read Our Wives Under the Sea and I *love* stories like that. Intimate. strange. ambiguous. with characters that you get invested it.
Just placed a hold for this! Thanks for the rec 💖
Lala, you have got to read From Below By Darcy Coates. It might be the scariest book I have ever read including Stephen King. Claustrophobic, well-drawn-out characters, supernatural, and just downright horrifying. Please give it a try.
If you could only see the vigorous notes I’m taking right now yessss I’m reading all of them😅👻
Both of Sara Grans books are probably my favorite on this list. I have read all of them but 6 and those 6 are already on my radar. Up first, Tinfoil Butterfly!
Ahhhh so that book(cabin at the end of the woods) is now the motion picture knock at the cabin. I enjoyed the movie, I may read the book as well.
Ooh based on your preferences I think you might really like Slade House!
damn, now I have 35 books to read in 4 days 😂