As you might imagine, red is a very popular cover color for horror books, and so it was very easy to come up with a bunch. I’m just limiting this to books I’ve read, and this is probably only a small portion of those, otherwise this list would go on forever! Let me know what red horror books you’d add to this list (or make your own!)
At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
Tiny Threads by Lilliam Rivera
What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
The red colour made them all even more creepy!!
I agree!
Red is probably one of the first colours I’d think of for horror 😀
I really need to read The September House, it sounds perfect for spooky season.
It’s soooo good!
Great covers, I’m not surprised to hear that there’s so many red ones out there as its such a fitting colour for the genre. I think my favourite is probably the one for Once Was Willem but I love Tun Threads, The Salt Grows Heavy & The September House too. I’ll admit two of the others kind of freak me out through
What Feasts At Night is one I’m sure:-)
Yes that’s one and At Night I Become Loathsome is the other lol
I need to read Once Was Willem soon! It makes me happy to see The September House on your list.
I hope you enjoy Once Was Willem:-)
These all look awesome together! I’ve read two… and there are about another 4 on my maybe-someday list!
I literally could have found three times as many red covers, they are everywhere:-)
I’ve not read any of these. I think you’re right though, red would be an easy color to find horror covers for! In fact I kind of want to do it myself now just from the books I’ve read. Fun post!
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Thanks Lisa!
Red certainly is a popular and good color for horror. And my favorite cover of the group, The September House, happens to be the only one of them I’ve “red” (yeah, I know, feel free to groan).
LOL hey it was a pun just waiting to happen;-)
Now, Red is pretty much the first colour I think of when I imagine horror covers! I literally finished Once Was Willem this morning and It’s easily going to be one of my best reads of the year, I loved it so much!!
I’m so glad, I loved it too!
Great covers! I really want to read So Thirsty. And I did read September House last year, but didn’t love it. I wonder how many horror novels have greenish covers. Fun post. 😀
Oooh I have already started my “green” list and will post it at some point:-)
I think I’ve mentioned this before but I always love the red white black color scheme, and I see a few of those with that here.
Me too, that combination always works well, especially with horror.
Yassss I love red book covers! The first ones coming to mind with me is the Vampire Academy series. At least the editions I have are red. There are a few different ones. Thanks for sharing!
There are so many, Vampire Academy is a great example:-)
It just works for horror books – I mean look at them all – they’re stunning.
I’ve read five of these and it does make me want to pick up the others.
Lynn 😀
It really does!
Red is such a good color for horror. Maybe a little predictable, but something so sinister about it too. Nice collection here!
It is a little cliche but that’s OK, red definitely makes an impact!