The interesting thing about horror and sci-fi novels is that they are hard to slip into one singular category. But, it’s also the thing that makes them so exciting to read – a shared opinion that supports why the novels listed below have been so widely bought and read by readers all over the world.
After this list is finished, I’m betting you’ll be one of those many!
1) The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
When a mysterious man wrapped in bandages so tightly bound they obscure his face enters a town’s inn as a lone traveler, the townspeople are doubly alert to his presence. Worried, they investigate the man and realize that something just isn’t right. The man, a scientist named Griffin, has condemned himself to a life of invisibility as he hasn’t learned how to reverse the effects. Now, Griffin is cursed to live with himself and his lonely mind—which is taking a tumbling descent into insanity.
2) Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
A heavy novel with mixed reviews as there are disturbing scenes that some readers feel force them to desensitize themselves to. Nevertheless, it is a top seller which readers say those who don’t like vampire novels will surely enjoy this striking vampire novel.
A 53-year-old vampire wakes up in the body of a young girl no more mature than 10 years. Understandably flustered, she’s picked up on the side of the rode by a man in a truck, but there’s something strange about her. She’s dirty, bruised, and can’t remember a thing… Only thing she’s certain of, though, is someone’s out to get her and they are murdering anyone who she gets close to.
3) Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park #1) by Michael Crichton
Arguably one of the most horrifying fantasies to ever near the possibility of becoming a reality, Jurassic Park features the recovery and cloning of dinosaur DNA from fossilized remains by an ingenious scientist who dreams of giving the world the chance to personally meet these mesmerizing ancient creatures. It’s the commencement of a massive jungle park. However, everything goes wrong when science loses control of the very dinosaurs it helped to create.
4) Watchers by Dean Koontz
Travis Cornell is hoping to recover some happiness in his lonely life on his thirty-sixth birthday. The morning of, he decides to take a long hike through the mountains in Santa Ana, California, but ends up stopped in his tracks by a golden retriever named Einstein. Unkempt and uncharacteristically intelligent, Einstein refuses to let Travis farther into the mountainous woods. He is also inexplicably connected with the eye of a dark and terrible, storm that Travis is, by far, not yet aware of.
5) Incubation (Green Fields #1) by Adrienne Lecter
Brianna “Bree” Lewis is a doctor of the cell culture lab at Green Fields Biotech and she’s having a rough day. Though, her morning woes and her lack of coffee proves to be the least of her worries when a group of terrorists bomb their way into the lab and takes herself and a few others hostage in their search for an illegal bioweapon that could make the already horrible situation outside the lab walls even worse: The country has been thrown into chaos by the animalistic violence displayed in individuals who have contracted a mysterious illness. And it’s spreading quickly.
A horror sci-fi list wouldn’t be a horror sci-fi list without some mad scientists, vampires, giant beasts, genetically mutated lab experiments, and zombies, now would it?
The answer is, it wouldn’t, and I hope they caught your attention.
Now, choose a book and get to reading!
