Friday the 13th Reads!
“The line between being too careful and not being careful enough is a line you only get to cross once.” —Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group
Friday the 13th happening in October? Sounds like a great start to a weekend to us! Here are our picks of the best Friday the 13th reads to celebrate this chilling day!
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron: A murderer at camp? This just screams Friday the 13th!
There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins: Let's throw in a book that reminds us of another big horror franchise, Scream, and remind us to lock our doors at night!
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle: Another camp, another murder, but if they can make 12 Friday the 13th movies, we can enjoy more than one murder-at-camp books.
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Moreno-Garcia's books always pay great homages to Mexican horror films, and their latest sends the best shivers down our spines!
Survive the Night by Riley Sager: In the ride of her life, in this book, the main character finds herself in a car with a serial killer in this thrilling horror from one of the best name's out there in thriller books, Riley Sager!
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix: The last-girl-standing trope--or the Final Girl--is what makes slashers films... slash. Hendrix pays a wicked homage to some of the genre's most famous films!
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis: The book which inspired the movie, and we're always the first ones to say the book is way better!
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen: So this is less slasher film, and more last-girl-standing meets The Bachelor--which is a fantastic combination in this incredible read!
Burn the Negative by Josh Winning: Like the Candyman, if you reawaken the curse of this slasher film, you'll have to reap what you sow in this cursed 90's horror flick!
Sign Here by Claudia Lux: This dark humor book gives a bit of a break from all of the hacking and slashing, but it's still a killer read!