Five historical horror novels

Rachel Brittain is a writer, Day Dreamer, and Amateur Aerialist. Her short fiction has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Andromeda Spaceways, and others. She is a contributing editor for Book Riot, where she screams into the void about her love of books. Brittain lives in Northwest Arkansas with a rambunctious rescue pup, a snake, and a houseful of plants (most of which aren’t carnivorous).

At Book Riot she tagged five favorite historical horror novels. One entry on the list:

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

Drenched in history and Chinese folklore, this novel from the author of The Night Tiger and The Fox Wife follows a young woman from a bankrupt family with few prospects until she receives a strange proposal to become the ghost bride of a wealthy family’s dead son. Though rarely practiced, ghost marriages in British-colonized Malaya are occasionally performed to settle restless spirits. But even as she discusses the possibility of this ghost marriage with the Lim family, Li Lan is drawn into the afterlife night after night. She’ll have to uncover the darkest secrets of the Lim family—and her own—or else remain trapped in the underworld forever.

Read about the other books on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue