Paste Best Horror Books of 2024

We've come to the end of another year and another 12 months of publishing that proved horror fiction's vastness, versatility, and sheer visceral power. In 2024 we saw new novels from some of the brightest minds in the genre, short fiction collections from masters and relative newcomers, marvelous debuts, established voices going deeper and darker, and so much more. It's a world of fiction impossible to boil down into just 15 titles, but I'm once again willing to try.Here are the best horror books of 2024 (and stick around until the end for an even longer Honorable Mention list).