Boo! These are the 10 most checked-out books in Adult Horror Fiction at KDL this year!

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What the Night Knows: A Novel
Dean Koontz

A companion to The Darkest Evening of the Year centers on an iconic Belgian shepherd that accompanies a man on a cross-country road trip marked by heart-stopping danger and colorful characters.


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Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King

A volume of four previously unpublished short works includes “1922,” in which a man explores his dark nature; “Big Driver,” in which a writer confronts a stranger; “Fair Extension,” in which a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil; and “A Good Marriage,” in which a woman makes a horrifying discovery about her husband.


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Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein)
Dean Koontz,Kevin J. Anderson

Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion’s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O’Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying.


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Pale Demon (The Hollows, Book 9)
Kim Harrison

Condemned to death for practicing witchcraft, bounty hunter Rachel Morgan is given three days to clear her name and get to the annual witches’ convention in San Francisco, an effort that forces her to endure a cross-country drive with a motley crew of supernatural companions. By the best-selling author of Black Magic Sanction.


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Let Me In
John Ajvide Lindqvist

In the aftermath of the bizarre murder of a local bully, twelve-year-old Oskar theorizes that the killing was an act of revenge and wonders about the nighttime activities of a new next-door neighbor.


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Death's Excellent Vacation
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Presents a collection of twelve original tales featuring supernatural beings going on vacation, including an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story.


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Breathless
Dean Koontz

Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by government forces. By the best-selling author of Relentless.


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Hit List (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 20)
Laurell K. Hamilton

The adventures of U.S. Marshal and vampire hunter Anita Blake continue in this follow-up to Bullet and Flirt when word is leaked to her that hit men are headed to St. Louis and that she, Jean-Claude and Richard are targets.


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Graveminder
Melissa Marr

Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place—and the man—she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.


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Queen of Kings
Maria Dahvana Headley

Desperate to resurrect Antony after his suicide, Cleopatra strikes a bargain with Sekhmet, goddess of death and destruction. Cleopatra is transformed into a vampire, an immortal shapeshifter of superhuman strength—and yearning for revenge as much as she craves human blood.


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