How Brat are Horror Novels in 2024?

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Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (www.booksquadgoals.com). She can be reached at [email protected].

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Horror is probably the most brat literary genre, so all horror novels are pretty brat. But how brat are the top-rated horror novels of 2024? Let’s take a look!

The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim (13,507 ratings on Goodreads, 3.88 avg.) — Is it any surprise that the highest-rated horror novel of 2024 is also the most brat? When Ji-won’s appa has an affair and leaves the family, Ji-won doesn’t get mad. She gets to eating eyeballs. Human eyeballs. And she sticks it to a lot of misogynistic, racist white men in the process. 100/100 Club Classics.

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What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (21,720 ratings on Goodreads, 3.84 avg.) — Kingfisher’s sequel to What Moves the Dead is a quick but intense read. Very brat. Alex Easton is back, and this time they’re back at their family hunting lodge, where they find the caretaker dead and potentially a breath-stealing monster on the loose. 20/25 “Apple” TikTok Dances.

Murder Road by Simone St. James (39,828 ratings on Goodreads, 3.70 avg.) — Is it brat to pick up a hitchhiker? Maybe. But what if that hitchhiker dies, and you get blamed not only for their murder but other unexplained murders that have happened along the highway? Not so brat. But riveting material for a horror novel. 50% So Julia.

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (39,390 ratings on Goodreads, 3.69 avg.) — This one is getting so much buzz as one of the scariest books of all … Read More