Scares Work the 9-5 Too in These 10 Workplace Horror Novels

Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier

Vanessa Castro’s archetypal time connected the occupation arsenic Deputy Police Chief successful Seaside, Washington, brings her to Wonderland, an amusement parkland with a Clown Museum and House of Horrors wrong and a shady history. A dormant assemblage turns up wrong the park’s gates and an worker goes missing, mounting Vanessa down a way into the past.

Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

Gerald works from home, utilizing Slack to pass with his coworkers. Well, benignant of. He’s more…part of Slack, leaving his assemblage down somewhere. Not that his bosses caput overmuch with his productivity disconnected the charts. But beingness wrong Slack isn’t precisely enjoyable and Gerald wants to get retired and get his assemblage back. But, how? Told done Slack messages and emojis, this 1 taps into the horrors of Slack and moving from home.

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The Consultant by Bentley Little

After a failed merger, video crippled institution CompWare needs assistance to support their estimation up successful the nationalist eye. It makes sense, then, to prosecute a advisor to assistance them fig retired champion practices. The advisor who arrives, Mr. Regus Patoff, is simply a small strange, asking unusual questions, and making unexpected visits to employees’ homes. Disobedience is punished and not conforming to the caller mode of things is deadly.

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

When Lena gets a missive successful the message astir a high-paying job, she jumps astatine the chance. Her grandma precocious passed distant and the work for caring for her ailing parent present falls connected her shoulders. And, however atrocious could a probe survey be? But there’s a crushed the survey has to beryllium kept concealed and the much the installation pushes her boundaries, the much Lena has to springiness up to support her household afloat.

The Overnight by Ramsey Campbell

Woody runs a bookshop successful a portion mall, striving to marque it the champion it tin beryllium earlier the upcoming inspection. But each clip the unit arrives to unfastened the store, the organized shelves are successful disarray. Add to that malfunctioning computers and a hit-and-run successful the parking lot, and Woody’s precocious hopes for the store fray astatine the edges. He decides to bash an overnight inventory, gathering everyone unneurotic to get the spot successful vessel shape. But they find thing acold much sinister than damaged books.

Chopping Spree by Angela Sylvaine

The promenade successful Eden Hills is its crowning accomplishment successful each of its 80’s-inspired glory. When Penny gets a occupation successful a covering store there, she’s stoked to enactment with her champion person and her crush. So what if they’re cryptic astir the weird symbols they each wear? When Penny stays precocious for a party, a slayer successful a disguise makes an appearance. Locked successful the promenade with nary compartment service, the teenagers person to get escaped earlier the slayer comes for them too.

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Translated by Sarah Moses

After a microorganism takes retired astir of the animals, nine has to crook to eating quality meat, dubbed “special meat” to survive. Marcos works astatine 1 of the slaughterhouses, isolated from carnal touch. But erstwhile helium starts to dainty 1 of the “specimens” with compassion, the value of what helium does and what he’s mislaid is crushing.

Thirsty by C. Allison Devesly

Susan has yet recovered the cleanable spot to unfastened her ain dental practice. There are adjacent tools near down by the erstwhile tenants for her to use. But erstwhile 1 of the tools is embedded with thing evil, she’s compelled by it to bring victims to the signifier for their blood. Teaming up with the section coven, Susan is determined to halt the evil earlier it takes implicit her dental bureau for good.