100+ Places to Market Your Horror Book

Ah, horror. The overwhelming suspense factor, the fear of what comes next, the feeling that someone’s watching you while you try to turn to the next page to see what happens to the characters. Will they die? Will they survive? What exactly are the horrors that hound them every step of the way? The horror genre is irresistible like that – though the stories themselves terrify, the question of what comes next (or perhaps who dies next?) keeps us going.

Below, you’ll find a list of links where you can market your own horror book!

Blogs and Websites

• The Horror Bookshelf
• Dark Arts Theater
• The Horrifically Horrifying Horror Book Blog
• Darkness Beckons
• Horror Novel Reviews
• Horror After Dark
• The Books of Blood: Horror Book Reviews
• Shivers of Horror
• Nyx Book Reviews
• Little Blog of Horror
• Horror Lovers! Book Blogs
• Too Much Horror Fiction
• Eamo the Geek
• AnythingHorror
• Books, Bones, & Buffy
• The Horrors of It All
• Horror Writers Association
• Burial Day Books
• Up All Night Horror Fiction Review
• If It Were Stine
• Hodderscape
• The Girl Who Loves Horror
• The Midnight Society
• Australian Horror Writers Association
• This Is Horror
• The Horror Fiction Review
• HorrorFind
• Craig DiLouie’s Apocalyptic Horror Fiction
• Creepypasta
• DarkMarkets
• MicroHorror
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Z. Rider’s Blog
• Nightfall Books
• The Dark Verse
• Horror Tree
• Eerie Books Blog
• Little Gothic Horrors
• Mystery and Imagination
• The Gothic Imagination
• Hellnotes
• Infinity Plus UK
• A Slice of Horror
• Horror Palace
• Doc Rotten**
• Horrorphilia**
• Horror Etc.**
• Killer Reviews**

**Includes discussion and articles on other horror-related media

Facebook Groups

• Horror Publicity and Book Club
• Horror, Psychological Suspense, and Mystery Book Lovers
• SciFi Horror End of the World Scenario 

Communities and Forums

• Books Stephen King Recommends Goodreads
• Horror Aficionados Goodreads
• Literary Darkness Goodreads
• Literary Horror Goodreads
• Monsters, Murderers, and Maniacs
• Letras Macabras Goodreads (Spanish)
• Paranormal and Horror Lovers Goodreads
• Valancourt Books Goodreads
• Classic Horror Lovers
• Weird Books! Goodreads
• Disturbing Books & Horror Book Club
• The Horror Lovers’ Book Club
• The Witches of Barrow Wood Goodreads
• The Anne Rice Book Club Goodreads
• Thrills, Kills, and Mysteries Goodreads
• For the Love of Horror Goodreads
• Horror.com Forums
• AbsoluteWrite Horror Forums
• Horror Express Horror Fiction Forum
• SFF Chronicles Horror Forum
• Horror/Fantasy/SF Book Club Forum
• Online Book Club Crime, Thrillers, Mystery and Horror Books Forum
• The Horror Forums
• Horror Fiction on Horror Game Forums
• Horror World Forum
• WritersNet Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Forum
• Creepypasta Discussion Posts
• Gothic.net Community

Author-specific:

• Stephen King Book Club Goodreads

Magazines and Newsletters

• Nightmare Magazine
• Tales to Terrify
• Sanitarium Magazine
• Encounters Magazine
• Dark Tales UK
• Lamplight: A Quarterly Magazine of Dark Fiction
• Black Treacle
• splatterpunkzine
• Blood Moon Rising Magazine
• Another Dimension Magazine
• Fangoria
• SNM Horror Magazine (is also a publishing house)
• Dark Scribe Magazine
• Interzone
• Free Horror Fiction Newsletter
• Mailer Demon

Author/mythos-specific:

• The Lovecraft eZine

Meet-ups

• Horror Book Club Meet-ups
• Horror Writers Meet-ups
• The Horror Book Club UK
• Glasgow Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Horror Book Group
• Nashville’s Suspense, Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Meet-up
• Genre Book Club
• Tucson Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror Writers Meetup Group
• Boston Horror Readers

Prizes and Giveaways

• Goodreads Horror Giveaways
• Fangoria Giveaways

Podcasts

• This Is Horror UK Podcast
• The Horror Writers Podcast
• Pseudopod
• Necronomipod
• The NoSleep Podcast
• Fear On Demand Horror Podcast
• Haunted Illinois Halloween Horror Podcasts
• Bloody Good Horror Podcasts
• In the Gloaming Podcasts
• The Hammered Horror Podcasts

Hashtags and Keywords

Top Books in the Genre

• The Shining by Stephen King
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Psycho by Robert Block
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• In A Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu (short story collection – contains “Carmilla”)
• The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
• The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

Top Authors in the Genre

• Richard Matheson
• Stephen King
• Joe Hill
• Henry James
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Edgar Allan Poe
• J. Sheridan Le Fanu
• Mary Shelley

Do you know other great places to market horror books? Let everyone know in the comments!