Seven of the best scary books of recent years

Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Johnson's latest novel is Sisters.

At the Guardian, she tagged seven of the best scary stories of recent years, including:

Any number of Helen Oyeyemi’s books would be perfect for this creepy time of the year but my favourite, White Is for Witching, is especially apt. Set in a tall house on the Dover cliffs the novel opens with the disappearance of one of its characters. The house is an unsettled place, the lift stopping between floors, the walls populated by generations of women who lived there before. Probably best read with the lights on.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue