Wednesday, August 05, 2026

Five top creature feature horror novels

K. W. Colyard is the author of the BNW-nominated “Those Who Forget and Those Who Perish,” published by Seize the Press in 2022. Their fiction has also appeared in Clarkesworld and Diabolical Plots.

At Book Riot Colyard tagged five novels in which "the horrors are externalized, even personified, in the shape of the villains." One title on the list:
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

Speaking of hungry, let’s talk about the Donner Party, shall we? Alma Katsu’s The Hunger examines what might have transpired in the Sierra Nevada all those years ago. As the wagon train’s food supplies dwindle in the snowy pass, neighbors begin to turn on each other. But none of them is prepared for the entrance of a legendary monster that makes men crave manflesh.
Read about another novel on the list.

The Hunger is among C.J. Cooke's seven historical horror titles inspired by true events, Reedsy's one hundred best (and scariest) horror books of all time, Steph Auteri's ten modern horror classics keeping the genre alive, Sharon Virts's twenty scary books for Halloween, C. J. Tudor's five top winter thrillers, Brittany Bunzey's twenty-five "must-read, truly bone-chilling" horror books, Deborah E. Kennedy's seven hot mysteries set in the Midwestern winter, Meagan Navarro top ten scary good horror novels, Jac Jemc's top ten haunting ghost stories and Mallory O'Meara's top thirteen spine-chilling books written by female authors.

My Book, The Movie: The Hunger.

The Page 69 Test: The Hunger.

--Marshal Zeringue