https://pithybooks.com/tags/horror/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “horror”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/hidden-pictures/ https://pithybooks.com/books/hidden-pictures/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey. https://pithybooks.com/books/mexican-gothic/ https://pithybooks.com/books/mexican-gothic/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT In 1950 Mexico, glamorous Noemi Taboada leaves Mexico City for High Place after a desperate letter, to rescue cousin Catalina from the chilling Doyles and their dark fungal secret. https://pithybooks.com/books/red-dragon/ https://pithybooks.com/books/red-dragon/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Graham consults Lecter to catch Tooth Fairy Dolarhyde. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-green-mile/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-green-mile/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-outsider/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-outsider/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco. https://pithybooks.com/books/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/ https://pithybooks.com/books/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Born with a perfect nose in 1738 Paris, Grenouille masters perfume craft then murders young women in Grasse to bottle the ultimate scent. https://pithybooks.com/books/salems-lot/ https://pithybooks.com/books/salems-lot/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires. https://pithybooks.com/books/11-22-63/ https://pithybooks.com/books/11-22-63/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-graveyard-book/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-graveyard-book/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A toddler escapes the murder of his family and is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, learning from the dead while the killer who hunts him waits outside. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-silence-of-the-lambs/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-silence-of-the-lambs/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Clarice Starling seeks Hannibal Lecter's help to catch Buffalo Bill before Catherine Martin runs out of time. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves. https://pithybooks.com/books/world-war-z/ https://pithybooks.com/books/world-war-z/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A UN researcher collects survivor accounts from Patient Zero in China to Yonkers and the Redeker Plan, charting the zombie war. https://pithybooks.com/books/carrie/ https://pithybooks.com/books/carrie/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bullied Carrie White discovers telekinetic powers that turn a cruel prom prank into a night of fire. https://pithybooks.com/books/coraline/ https://pithybooks.com/books/coraline/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coraline finds a door to a better version of home, ruled by the Other Mother with button eyes. https://pithybooks.com/books/interview-with-the-vampire/ https://pithybooks.com/books/interview-with-the-vampire/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris. https://pithybooks.com/books/misery/ https://pithybooks.com/books/misery/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave. https://pithybooks.com/books/pet-sematary/ https://pithybooks.com/books/pet-sematary/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-gunslinger/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-gunslinger/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A man recalls age seven when a lodger's suicide let hunger birds in, and Lettie Hempstock saved him.