Six months ending Jul 2026

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Ranked by mention count in the latest six observed months in the dataset. The window is anchored to the newest processed month, not today's date.

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6 months

Window

Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman

A disgraced knight and a mute girl walk across a France gutted by plague and demons, looking for one town God hasn't given up on yet.

285 last 6 mo

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

A found manuscript describes a house whose hallway is bigger inside than the house itself, and its footnotes start unraveling the man reading them.

285 last 6 mo

The Troop

Nick Cutter

Four Boy Scouts and their troop leader get stranded on an island with a starving stranger carrying an engineered parasite.

243 last 6 mo

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

A father buries his toddler in an ancient burial ground that brings the dead back wrong, then digs him up anyway.

223 last 6 mo

The Fisherman

John Langan

Two grieving widowers go fishing at a spot locals call Dutchman's Creek, and find out exactly why nobody else fishes there.

204 last 6 mo

The Shining

Stephen King

A recovering alcoholic takes his family to caretake an empty hotel for the winter, and the hotel starts caretaking him back.

201 last 6 mo

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

A washed-up priest and an aging exorcist face down whatever has taken over a twelve-year-old girl in a Georgetown townhouse.

173 last 6 mo

The Terror

Dan Simmons

Franklin's crew abandons two ice-locked ships in the Arctic while something unseen in the dark hunts them one by one.

157 last 6 mo

The Ruins

Scott Smith

Four tourists follow a map to a Mayan ruin looking for a missing friend and find a hill covered in vines that can imitate a ringing phone.

140 last 6 mo

#10

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Four strangers spend the summer in a house built wrong on purpose, and one of them stops being sure which noises are real.

139 last 6 mo

#11

The Stand

Stephen King

A superflu wipes out ninety-nine percent of the country, and the survivors on foot have to pick a side before Vegas or Boulder claims them.

135 last 6 mo

#12

The Elementals

Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell, who also wrote the Beetlejuice screenplay, sends two Alabama families to a crumbling house on a sand spit that keeps giving back what it swallows.

125 last 6 mo

#13

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

Four Blackfeet men who broke a hunting taboo a decade ago get hunted back, one at a time, on the reservation and off it.

125 last 6 mo

#14

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

A teenage drifter joins a scalp-hunting militia across the Texas-Mexico borderlands, led by a hairless giant who may not be entirely human.

123 last 6 mo

#15

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

A father and son push a shopping cart down a dead American highway, and the only rule left is that they're the good guys.

116 last 6 mo

#16

Books of Blood

Clive Barker

Clive Barker opens with 'the dead have highways' and spends six volumes proving horror prose can be gorgeous and grotesque in the same sentence.

115 last 6 mo

#17

Ghost Story

Peter Straub

Four old men in a small town swap ghost stories at a private club, not knowing one of them is about to come true.

105 last 6 mo

#18

A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay

A family invites reality-TV cameras into their home to film their teenage daughter's possession, and nobody agrees on what those cameras actually caught.

73 last 6 mo

#19

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A young socialite travels to a remote Mexican mansion to check on her newly married cousin and finds the walls, and the family living inside them, aren't done growing.

70 last 6 mo