Thursday, November 06, 2025

Eight top literary horror novels

At Book Riot Addison Rizer tagged eight literary horror novels, including:
Zone One by Colson Whitehead

In the aftermath of a worldwide pandemic, half the population is left in a zombified state. Those who were not infected by the disease fight to reclaim Manhattan from their safe space called Zone One, including Mark Spitz, a sweeper whose job is to clean the infected out of the city. As Mark works to make space for humanity to live again, he comes face-to-face with a world with different rules and a different role for society.
Read about another entry on the list.

Zone One is among Emily Temple's nine books that destroy New York City as we know it, Ceridwen Christensen's six top zombie novels, and Corey J. White's five top books about the collapse of New York City.

--Marshal Zeringue