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The graveyard apartment5/8/2023 “Horror” is a wildly subjective genre, and we invite debate over any and all lines we’ve drawn while assembling the list. We’ve made one exception for a short-story collection, but we otherwise stuck to novellas and full-length prose. This list includes 25 novels published in English for the first time between 2010 and September 2019, and we’ve limited it to one book per author. The list below is still dominated by straight white cis men, but the last few years give ample reason to expect that similar rankings will shift as more diverse voices get a seat at the terror table.Īs this decade comes to a close, however, we want to celebrate the horror novels that impacted us during the last 10 years. That’s not to say that horror has reached anything like gender or racial parity. The rise of digital reading and dedicated imprints helped foster a novella boom, and marginalized voices made massive headways, especially in Young Adult literature and cross-genre mash-ups. Horror grandmaster Stephen King contributed in no small part to the upswing, thanks to a resurgence of interest in his back catalog and a steady stream of new releases. If the 2000s saw the genre begin to climb out of its sobering ‘90s slump, the 2010s found it flourishing in both the small-press realm and at major publishers, as authors like Joe Hill and Lauren Beukes reminded the big leagues that there is money to be made in scaring diligent readers. Horror has had an excellent decade in print.
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