9 Horror Books to Indulge in this Easter
What does Easter mean to you?
Chocolate, rabbits, eggs, resurrection, faith, or just an extra-long weekend?
No matter what you think about Easter, you’ve probably never really thought about it quite like these horror authors have thought about it.
Not all of the following horror books are technically about Easter, but they all have at least one Easter element in the story or the title.
Go on. Spoil yourself and indulge in some sweet horror this holiday season.
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Death by Chocolate – Matthew Cash (editor)
Chocolate horror anthology
Chocolate. Some people crave it, some people hate it. It is given on many occasions, and used for many reasons. For celebration and for comfort, in good times and bad.
This selection box brings you 14 treats from Edward Breen, Jonathan Paul Butcher, Calum Chalmers, Daniel Marc Chant, S.L. Dixon, Kayleigh Marie Edwards, Justine Johnston Hemmestad, Holly Ice, Christopher Law, Chris Moore, J.R. Park, Duncan Ralston, Mark Woods and the editor, with original illustrations by Holly Marie Smith, all enveloped in the deepest, darkest chocolate.
“They didn’t quite sing, but Ray had always admired his grandfather’s long, straight teeth, so he chose the teeth on the top right.”
Spider Bunny - Carlton Mellick III
Bizarro bunny horror
Only Petey remembers the Fruit Fun cereal commercials of the 1980s. He remembers how warped and disturbing they were. He remembers the lumpy-shaped cartoon children sitting around a breakfast table, eating puffy pink cereal brought to them by the distortedly animated mascot, Berry Bunny. The characters were creepier than the Sesame Street Humpty Dumpty, freakier than Mr. Noseybonk from the old BBC show Jigsaw. They used to give him nightmares as a child. Nightmares where Berry Bunny would reach out of the television and grab him, pulling him into her cereal bowl to be eaten by the demented cartoon children.
When Petey brings up Fruit Fun to his friends, none of them have any idea what he’s talking about. They’ve never heard of the cereal or seen the commercials before. And they’re not the only ones. Nobody has ever heard of it. There’s not even any information about Fruit Fun on google or wikipedia. At first, Petey thinks he’s going crazy. He wonders if all of those commercials were real or just false memories. But then he starts seeing them again. Berry Bunny appears on his television, promoting Fruit Fun cereal in her squeaky unsettling voice. And the next thing Petey knows, he and his friends are sucked into the cereal commercial and forced to survive in a surreal world populated by cartoon characters made flesh.
“She’s Berry Bunny, the mascot of Fruit Fun cereal, the lord of this domain.”
Collected Easter Horror Shorts – Kevin J Kennedy
Easter horror anthology
From the darkest recesses of some of the horror world’s most chilling minds, Kevin J. Kennedy brings back together some of the authors that brought you Collected Christmas Horror Shorts, alongside several new authors, from upcoming indie stars to Amazon top sellers.
Whether you like Easter or not, you’ll certainly have a different view of it after you read the stories contained within these pages. Grab an Easter egg, dim the lights, get cosy and get ready for some chilling tales by some of the horror world’s finest.
“Every eleventh Easter, a sacrifice had to be sent out to the forest…”
Night of the Bunny – Derek Heath
Bunny creature horror
When young arsonist Joel is sent to a quiet farmhouse to work off his damages, he finds an unexpected peace and resolve in the chores, and a new friend in old farmhand Rudy. But there’s something dark in the woods around the farm, and it’s hungry…
As Easter approaches the beast makes itself known, a hulking abomination that looks a lot like… the Easter Bunny?
But this creature is no fluffy mascot of joy and playfulness, and the egg-shaped gifts it leaves hidden around the farm are definitely not made of chocolate. Soon something becomes very clear: it’s up to Joel to stop the monster before it causes even more chaos.
“I don’t appreciate them rabbits digging up my lawn…”
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse – Robert Rankin
Comedy fantasy serial killer horror
Once upon a time Jack set out to find his fortune in the big city. But the big city is Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town, and it has grown considerably since the good old days and isn’t all that jolly anymore.
And there is a serial killer loose on the streets. The old, rich nursery rhyme characters are being slaughtered one by one and the Toy City police are getting nowhere in their investigations.
Meanwhile, Private Eye Bill Winkie has gone missing, leaving behind his sidekick Eddie Bear to take care of things.
Eddie may be a battered teddy with an identity crisis, but someone’s got to stop the killer. When he teams up with Jack, the two are ready for the challenge. Not to mention the heavy drinking, bad behaviour, car chases, gratuitous sex and violence, toy fetishism and all-round grossness along the way. It’s going to be an epic adventure!
“But doom is doom, no matter how you spell it. Unless, of course, you spell it differently from doom.”
Crossroads – Laurel Hightower
Supernatural resurrection horror
When Chris’s son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated.
The walls of grief close in on her life until, one day, a small cut on her finger changes everything. A drop of blood falls from Chris’s hand onto her son’s roadside memorial and, later that night, she thinks she sees his ghost outside her window.
But, is it really her son’s ghost, or is it something else, something evil?
Soon Chris is playing a dangerous game with forces beyond her control in a bid to see her son alive once again.
“The first time Chris buried a part of herself by her son’s roadside cross, it was an accident.”
Easter Eggs & Bunny Boilers – Matt Shaw
Easter horror anthology
Learn the true meaning of Easter in this anthology featuring some of the biggest names in horror with authors from across the globe. Experience demented rabbits, chocolate obsessed children drowning in their own greed, serial killers, resurrection and more in this collection guaranteed to kill the cravings of your sweet tooth.
Featuring authors: Matt Shaw, Graeme Reynolds, Luke Smitherd, Jim Goforth, Stuart Keane, Kit Power, Jack Rollins, David Owain Hughes, Rich Hawkins, Duncan Ralston, Kyle M. Scott, Duncan P. Bradshaw, J R Park, Glenn Rolfe, Chantal Noordeloos, Kindra Sowder, Matt Hickman, Neil Buchanan, Mark West, Michael Bray.
“In the hallway, next to a small wicker basket, there was a small white rabbit.”
Red Rabbit - Alex Grecian
Supernatural western horror
Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit.
On the road to Burden County, they’re joined by two vagabond cowboys with a strong sense of adventure, but no sense of purpose, and a recently widowed schoolteacher with nothing left to lose. As their posse grows, so too does the danger.
Racing along the drought-stricken plains in a stolen red stagecoach, they encounter monsters more wicked than witches lurking along the dusty trail. But the crew is determined to get that bounty, or die trying.
“Saddle up, it’s going to be a bloody ride.”
The Resurrectionist – Wrath James White
Supernatural resurrection horror
Dale McCarthy has a unique and miraculous ability: He can bring the dead back to life.
The resurrected have no memory of their deaths, but not every miracle comes from God, and not every healer is a saint.
Ever since her new neighbor moved in, Sarah Lincoln has been having terrible nightmares.
Last night she dreamed she and her husband were brutally murdered in their beds. This morning, she found bloody sheets in the laundry and bloodstains on her mattress. And the nightmare is the same, night after night after night.
With no one prepared to take her wild fears seriously, Sarah will have to save herself from being murdered. Again.
“As Dale watched, her flesh began to knit back together.”
Published: 26 March 2024
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