Types of Horror Fiction: 10 Subgenres With Recommended Books for Each

At a glance: This article lists ten popular types or subgenres of horror fiction, with some recommended novels for each category.

Dividing the horror genre into individual subgenres is harder than you might think. (Trust me on this.) There’s a lot of overlap and crossover. Some novels straddle the line between two or more subgenres. Other books blaze a path of their own and don’t fit squarely into a single category.

For example: Zombies. Do they stand alone in their own genre? There’s ...