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Terror Knows No Boundaries with These Translated Horror Novels

Posted by Cybil on September 29, 2022
148 likes · 16 comments


Scary things happen all over the world—in different regions, different countries, and occasionally different dimensions.
 
So why limit yourself to horror novels originally written in English? We’ve gathered here 24 specimens of translated horror for the discerning cosmopolitan reader. The collection includes novels and short story collections, with an eye toward celebrating the wide world of terror. Tragedy in Korea. Spooky old houses in Iceland. Ambulating corpses in Iraq. Also: cursed bunnies and decapitated chickens.
 
Scroll down and over the book cover images for synopses, details, and links. (There are some pretty great covers!) Add any interesting leads to your Want to Read shelf.

Frankenstein in Baghdad
The Route of Ice and Salt
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
The Graveyard Apartment
Tender Is the Flesh
Such Small Hands
Goth
Kindle unlimited
Cursed Bunny
The Night
The Lake of the Dead
Shiver: Selected Stories
The Black Spider
The Houseguest and Other Stories
Let the Right One In
Hands of Orlac
Echo
China Dream
I Remember You
The Twenty Days of Turin
Fever Dream
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Hadriana in All My Dreams
The Hole
Things We Lost in the Fire


Have a great translated horror novel to recommend? Let us know in the comments below! 


 · 148 likes · 16 comments

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message 1: by Miriam (new)
Sep 29, 2022 11:37AM

Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser This list is great but it definitely needs more Han Kang!


message 2: by Rebecca (new)
Sep 29, 2022 04:03PM

Rebecca Let the Right One In = perfection 👌🏻


message 3: by Magdalena (new)
Sep 30, 2022 11:40AM

Magdalena Hanell Every single book written by John Ajvide Lindqvist! Also Mats Strandberg is amazing. I’d stay away from Echo, recommended above. Terribly disappointing compared to Hex by the same author.


message 4: by Joshua (new)
Oct 01, 2022 10:37PM

Joshua Tanner The Laws of the Skies by Gregoire Courtois


message 5: by Edge (new)
Oct 04, 2022 09:39AM

Edge Excited to check some of these out.


message 6: by Gabriel (new)
Oct 06, 2022 12:25PM

Gabriel two Mariana Enrique's books? thats right!


message 7: by Bett (new)
Oct 06, 2022 04:56PM

Bett Totally disagree with all the hate for Heuvelt's Echo. This book scared the hell out of me. Absolutely loved it.


message 8: by Jen namurit (new)
Oct 08, 2022 11:27AM

Jen namurit Amparo Davila is great. I wish they would translate more of her work.


message 9: by Leanne (new)
Oct 11, 2022 08:05PM

Leanne Could not sleep after Things We Lost in the Fire so.... agrees!!


message 10: by Liander (The Towering Pile) (new)
Oct 14, 2022 01:01PM

Liander (The Towering Pile) Lavoie The Graveyard Apartment is honestly one of the scariest books I've ever read. Just something about it. It made me scared at night in my apartment for a bit lol!


message 11: by Olivier (new)
Oct 16, 2022 12:14AM

Olivier Meeus Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt is fantastic!


message 12: by Artemisia (new)
Oct 19, 2022 12:17PM

Artemisia Mariana Enriquez's Our Share of Night for sure!


message 13: by Rachel (new)
Oct 24, 2022 02:49PM

Rachel I read ‘tender is the flesh’ about 6 weeks ago, and it still haunts me


message 14: by Kierra (new)
Oct 26, 2022 04:44PM

Kierra Kronk Lol I read Tender is the Flesh two years ago and still recommend it to people probably once a month. It will live rent free in your mind the rest of your life....


message 15: by Fi (new)
Oct 27, 2022 12:47AM

Fi Great to hear what people think of these, definitely going to give a few a try!


message 16: by Ale (new)
Oct 31, 2022 03:02PM

Ale I read Horacio Quiroga as a teen. I haven't been able to have a good night's sleep on a down pillow since. 😭


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