This list is comprised of mostly recent collections. You don’t need me to recommend Shirley Jackson or Stephen King to you. That’s like trying to find out about different flavors of ice cream and being pitched vanilla and chocolate — they’re good, but you already know about them. These are some of the most wonderful, unusual, and frightening collections I have read in recent years. And with collections of stories, it’s fun, because you get all kinds of different flavors of scary in one book. So please sit back, secure your tray tables and Baby Yoda dolls, and enjoy this list. I’ll meet you at the bottom to recommend more lists of scary books to check out. If you enjoy being scared out of your socks by books, you should also check out 20 Must-Read Horror Books You’ve Never Heard Of, We Scare You To Read This: Exciting 2022 Horror Books, and be sure to sign up for our horror newsletter The Fright Stuff!
