Books like Off Season
A group of friends from New York come to a remote cabin on the Maine coast out of season, and something lives in the woods nearby.
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Clown in a Cornfield
Quinn Maybrook and her father move to Kettle Springs, Missouri, a dying farm town split between its older residents and the teenagers who prank them, and soon someone dressed as Frendo, the clown mascot of the town's shuttered factory, starts killing the kids.
There's Someone Inside Your House
In a small Nebraska town someone starts killing the students of Osborne High one by one, and Makani Young, who moved there from Hawaii to escape her past, is in the killer's sights.
Hide
Fourteen contestants are sent into an abandoned amusement park for a week-long game of hide and seek with a big cash prize, and Mack, who survived something terrible as a child by hiding, means to win.
The Troop
Five fourteen-year-old Boy Scouts and their scoutmaster are camping on a remote island off Prince Edward Island when an emaciated stranger arrives carrying something that begins to get inside them, in Lord of the Flies crossed with body horror.
Psycho
Mary Crane, on the run with money stolen from her boss, stops for the night at an out-of-the-way motel run by Norman Bates, a lonely man who lives with his domineering mother in the house above.
Cell
Clay Riddell, an artist in Boston on the day he sells his graphic novel, watches everyone on a mobile phone suddenly turn violent, and sets off north to find his son in Maine.
The Final Girl Support Group
Lynnette Tarkington survived a massacre in 1988 and has spent the years since in a support group with five other final girls whose ordeals became horror movie franchises, and when one of them misses a meeting, she is sure someone is coming for them all.
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Jade Daniels, a half-Indian seventeen-year-old in the lake town of Proofrock, Idaho, knows everything about slasher films, and when people start dying just as rich newcomers build mansions across the lake, she is sure the pattern is playing out for real.
Cycle of the Werewolf
Month by month for a year, something kills in the small Maine town of Tarker's Mills when the moon is full, and a boy in a wheelchair is the one who works out what.
The Final Girls
Ten years after Quincy Carpenter became one of the 'Final Girls', three young women who each survived a massacre, she has a baking blog and a quiet life in Manhattan, until one of the others is found dead and the third, Sam, turns up at her door.
The Ruins
Four young Americans on holiday in Cancún agree to help a German tourist find his brother, who went off to an archaeological dig in the jungle and has not come back.
Burn
Two old friends come out of their annual hunting trip in the Maine woods to find the country convulsed by armed secessionist violence, and have to make their way home through it.