The best horror books of 2024 according to the Esquire (April 10)

• The House of Last Resort by Peter Straub
• This Wretched Valley by Lyndsey Kiefer
• Among the Living by Adam Nevill
• In the Valley of the Headless Men by Hernán Díaz
• The Haunting of Velkwood by Michael David Kiste
• Mouth by Paul Tremblay
• King Nyx by Christopher Golden
• The Angel of Indian Lake by Graham Joyce
• The Black Girl Survives in This One edited by Rion Amilcar Scott and Rebecca Roanhorse
• Bless Your Heart by Alyssa Maxwell
• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by John LaRocca
• Diavola by Livia Llewellyn
• The Underhistory by Tessa Warren
• Incidents Around the House by Riley Sager (forthcoming