Six medieval horror books

Lyndsie Manusos’s fiction has appeared in PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked in web production and content management. When she’s not nesting among her books and rough drafts, she’s chasing the baby while the dog watches in confused amusement. She lives with her family in a suburb of Indianapolis.

At Book Riot she tagged six medieval horror books to take you back in time, including:

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

You can’t talk about Medieval horror without mentioning Between Two Fires, which seems to be everywhere I look lately. What began as a BookTok sensation was recently rereleased with the renowned horror publisher Tor NightFire.

Between Two Fires begins in the year 1348, and the knight, Thomas, finds an orphaned girl of the plague in a dead Norman village. The girl believes the Black Plague is part of a larger religious cataclysm, and her visions convince Thomas to escort her to Avignon. But Thomas soon realizes that the girl is more than just promises of salvation for himself and the world. This is a medieval horror-adventure that plays on the religious intensity and upheaval of the Middle Ages.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue