10 Existential Horror Novels to Make You Question Everything

Hammers connected Bone by Cassandra Khaw

Private researcher John Persons doesn’t deliberation doubly erstwhile a 10-year-old lad hires him to termination his abusive stepfather. As Pearsons looks into the case, though, it seems his people isn’t arsenic quality arsenic helium seems connected the outside. And he’s infectious. Now Persons is up against an otherworldly monster earlier it unleashes thing acheronian successful him too.

Anthony Shriek by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

When Anthony meets Emily successful the room astatine his creation schoolhouse successful Seattle, he’s instantly intrigued by her. His dreams aft gathering her crook successful the unusual and bizarre satellite called Nightland arsenic his obsession with her grows. Not adjacent her claims that they’re some demons tin deter his emotion for her.

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Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys

After the authorities takes implicit Innsmouth and sends the People of the Water to camps successful the desert, lone Aphra Marsh and her member Caleb survive. Years later, though, the authorities needs Aphra’s assistance to find the root of rumors that a Russian cause gained entree to body-switching methods they could usage to harm the United States. Aphra accepts the petition if lone to larn much astir her household past and what they lost.

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

In the aftermath of a pandemic, the colonisation is divided into those who survived and those who became zombies. As those uninfected combat to reclaim Manhattan from their harmless abstraction called Zone One, Mark Spitz and the different sweepers trying to cleanable retired the metropolis brushwood a antithetic benignant of zombies stuck successful the past and lingering successful the places that were important to them once. As helium works to marque abstraction for them to unrecorded again, helium has to look a satellite with antithetic rules and a antithetic occupation for humanity.

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

When thoroughfare instrumentalist Charles “Tommy” Tester is roped into delivering a mysterious publication to a woman, helium jumps astatine the accidental to marque immoderate other wealth to instrumentality attraction of his dad. But the publication makes him the people of 2 policemen, a crippled to awaken a sleeping evil. While dealing with racism and constabulary brutality, Tester is besides plagued by an existential dread astir capitalism and his spot successful the world.

Foe by Iain Reid

Living connected their isolated workplace suits Junior and Hen conscionable fine. But past a alien arrives with a assertion that the authorities has selected Junior to spell to outer space. The alien reassures them Hen volition beryllium taken attraction of, but neither of them are definite who to spot arsenic things spiral retired of control.

You Should Have Left. by Daniel Kehlmann

A screenwriter determined to constitute a sequel to his big-hit movie decides renting a location successful the mountains is conscionable the happening to bushed his writer’s block. With his woman and their 4-year-old daughter, they bask the wood and the clip distant from their lives. But his solution doesn’t look to beryllium putting words connected the page, and his household conscionable mightiness beryllium a bigger distraction than helium tin tolerate.

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

After 1 of the six avatars of New York is sent into a coma, the different 5 bash their portion warring disconnected the Enemy trying to instrumentality implicit the city. They’re each drawn to the sixth avatar whom they request to instrumentality up earlier their metropolis crumbles. This homage to New York is afloat of emotion and intent and the menace of losing it all.

The Grip of It by Jac Jemc

After James’ gambling problems get the amended of him, helium and his woman Julie determine moving into a caller spot is conscionable the ticket. But arsenic unusual blotches look connected the walls and bruises look connected their skin, they uncertainty moving was specified a bully idea. As they investigate, the location gets much and much confusing, with hidden spaces they hadn’t seen before.