As we count down to Scream 7, we’re diving into the stories that shaped the slasher genre. From razor-sharp horror to final-girl thrillers and small-town secrets with a body count, this booklist is our pregame ritual. These are the novels that channel Ghostface energy: self-aware, suspenseful, a little campy, and completely unputdownable. Whether you’re here for masked killers, morally messy teens, or twists that hit like a jump scare, this is what we’re reading to get in the mood for the next iteration in the Scream franchise.
Horror movie buff, Charley Ryann thinks attending boarding school on a remote island won’t be anything extraordinary until someone starts killing off the senior class. No one’s surprised when Charley’s taste in movies makes her the prime suspect. Determined to clear her name, she sets out to find the killer before her campus becomes more graveyard than school. She’s equipped only with her encyclopedic knowledge of horror cinema and the help of her trusty cinephile best friend, Olive—oh, and the ghosts of the murdered students.
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Twelve months ago, an escape room fire took everything from Steffi Zamekova. On the anniversary of the bewildering tragedy, Steffi is still desperate to piece together what went wrong. So when she receives an ominous invitation in the mail summoning her to the new escape room across town, she seizes the chance for answers. But it’s soon clear that each participant has their own cagey reasons for accepting the challenge. And as tensions rise and the players are picked off one by one, it’s a race against the clock for Steffi to uncover their secrets and unlock her own memories before the game’s mastermind ensures that no one escapes the room alive.
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Max Maurey should be on top of the world. He’s a famous horror director. But it’s the 80s, and he’s directing cheap slashers for audiences who only crave more blood, not real art. Not real horror. Sally Priest dreams of being the Final Girl. When Sally meets Max at his latest wrap party, she sets out to impress him and prove her scream queen prowess.
But when Max discovers an old camera that filmed a very real Hollywood horror, he knows that he has to use this camera for his next movie. By the time Max discovers the true evil lying within, he’s already dead set on finishing the scariest movie ever put to film, and like it or not, it’s Sally’s time to shine as the Final Girl.
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1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this “playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel.”
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