Which book to read based on your favourite horror film

Curated by the visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, Jordan Peele himself, Out There Screaming is a groundbreaking anthology of Black horror, full of stories that prey on everything we think we know about our world and redefine what it means to be afraid. A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes in place of the headlights of cars that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. And a young girl dives into the watery depths in search of the demon that killed her parents. . .

When things seem to be too good to be true, they probably are. With her handsome husband, seven perfect children, and a life of from-scratch meals made on her idyllic Black Swan Farm, Mia Wright is the queen of trad wife influencers. In steps journalist Jenny Kaplan, who arrives at the farm to profile Mia, fully expecting to write a scathing exposé. But there's something wrong at the farmhouse. The children sing strange nursery rhymes at night. Jenny's losing time. She's losing her hair. Is she also losing her mind?

An unnerving and uncanny exploration of the fears of motherhood, Fever Dream shares the psychological, creeping horror of these terrifying films. Amanda knows she has to answer the questions. Lying feverish and unseeing in her hospital bed, she tries her best to account for how she came to be there. She remembers the lake, the house, and the strange woman next door with her unthinkable confession. She remembers the fear of losing her young daughter, Nina. Now she is alone and Nina is gone. At what moment did everything go dark?

When Linli Feng returns home to LA after three years’ absence she is aghast at what she finds. Her mother, Fanny, is unrecognizable. In her endless quest to achieve the ‘right’ kind of beauty, Fanny has spent the intervening years having bargain procedures in the basements of LA’s bootleg beauty parlours. Now Fanny’s disfigured face is in dangerous revolt, infected and collapsing from black-market injectables. When Linli attempts to rescue her mother from the sinister subculture that has already claimed her face, she must at last confront the corrosive reality of the American dream that lies at the very heart of their relationship.

Indulge in a chilling reimagining of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with a devastating sapphic romance at its heart. It's 1884, and Mafalda is travelling to Budapest to care for her aunt, accompanied by her secret love, Lucy, and her chaperone, Eliza, and lady's maid, Alice. When Alice, cursed with the Sight, is taunted by visions, and Eliza becomes suddenly ill, they seek the healing waters of Transylvania and are invited to Castle Dracula. But it seems their host doesn't really having healing in mind after all. . . 

This is a feminist Frankenstein with flowers; a deliciously dark, twisted, horror-tinged fairytale with rot at its heart . . . Lonely Rory is made a friend by his sister, woven from flowers and words. But Daye turns out to be a seasonal creation who must be woven back together before she falls gruesomely apart. As time goes on, Rory sinks deeper into research and experiments to end the cycle of bloom and decay. But as Rory grows older, his thoughts turn darker. . .