Like Sinners, P. Djélí Clark’s Ring Shout is a historical horror novel set in the American South. Sinners is set in 1930s Mississippi. Ring Shout is set in Georgia in the 1920s. Maryse Boudreaux, equipped with a magical sword, joins a band of freedom fighters called the Harlem Hellfighters, battling against the Ku Klux Klan. But in this version of history, the Klan are actual demons—shape shifters who are the dark manifestations of hate itself and must be banished back to Hell. Even the author himself admitted that this book is an excellent companion read to Sinners!

A small town rocked by violence and an ominous evil force? We could be talking about Weapons, but this also describes Chasing the Boogeyman. At first, when several missing girls are found dead in a small Maryland suburb, police believe they have a serial killer on their hands. But as more brutal details about the deaths are revealed, rumors begin to spread around town that whatever it is that killed those girls was something that isn’t human.

If you’re a fan of Frankenstein, then you love dark, psychological, atmospheric Gothic horror, and Laura Purcell’s The Silent Companions is one of the best! When Elsie’s handsome and wealthy husband Rupert Bainbridge dies only weeks after marriage, Elsie suddenly finds herself in a house where both the servants and the surrounding villagers act hostile towards her. Her only friend in her new home is her husband’s strange cousin. That is, until Elsie discovers a wooden figure that bears an uncanny resemblance to Elsie herself. But where did the “Silent Companion” come from? Are the villagers’ superstitions about it true?

The Ugly Stepsister is a feminist retelling of Cinderella that is brutal, terrifying, and at times outright disgusting. Like The Ugly Stepsister, Carmen Maria Machado’s short story collection Her Body and Other Parties is filled with retellings, fantasies, fabulism, and body horror that explores the many ways women are subjected to violence to fit in with societal expectations.