Why am I passionate about this?
As a writer who grew up on a steady diet of horrorāfrom Dean Koontz to Peter Straub to Stephen KingāI never knew what amazing diversity there actually was in the genre, until I became a horror writer myself! In the last few years, Iāve met an incredible range of talented writers whose books are sometimes overshadowed on the horror shelves by a certain King, and I think itās high time we all knew more about these hardworking, creative, and gifted authors. So if you read horror and are hungry for new books by writers whose work you may not know, here are five incredible voices to whisper tales of terror in your ear.
Andy's book list on horror writers who arenāt Stephen King
Why did Andy love this book?
She Said Destroy is a mind-bending, award-nominated collection of short stories that speak to the horrors of home, childhood, and family. Itās the kind of stuff I wish I could write! Theyāre fantastical, haunting, unabashedly political, and heartbreakingly beautiful. Bulkinās among the vanguard of new and emerging voices in horror. In my favorite story from the bunch, a final girl tames a dragon!
1 author picked She Said Destroy as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A dictator craves love--and horrifying sacrifice--from his subjects; a mother raised in a decaying warren fights to reclaim her stolen daughter; a ghost haunts a luxury hotel in a bloodstained land; a new babysitter uncovers a family curse; a final girl confronts a broken-winged monster...
Word Horde presents the debut collection from critically-acclaimed Weird Fiction author Nadia Bulkin. Dreamlike, poignant, and unabashedly socio-political, She Said Destroy includes three stories nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, four included in Year's Best anthologies, and one original tale.