Top ten terrifying literary horror novels

Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the award-winning author of ten novels, including The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers Award, and Lost Girls, which was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year.

[My Book, The Movie: The Wildfire Season; The Page 69 Test: The Wildfire Season; The Page 69 Test: The Killing Circle; My Book, The Movie: The Only Child; The Page 69 Test: The Only Child]

Coile's debut sci-fi thriller is William.

At People magazine he tagged ten "horror novels [that] have something to say about being human while scaring us silly in the most artful ways." One title on the list:

The Troop by Nick Cutter

Full disclosure: Cutter is a friend of mine. But I promise this has no bearing on my declaration of The Troop as the most effective — and often moving — work of body horror I’ve ever read. It also has the veracity of a journal, a believable account of real events that’s been kept from the public. Who knows? Perhaps it is.

Read about another entry on the list.

Also see Alena Bruzas's seven best literary horror novels.

--Marshal Zeringue