So You Want to Read Survival Horror: Here’s Where to Start
Maybe you know “survival horror” best as a genre of video games, but stories of people fighting for their lives in the face of terror, supernatural and otherwise, are as old as storytelling itself. Look to the shelves of your favorite local bookstore and you’re bound to find plenty of grim and grisly tales in which the best the heroes can hope for is to simply survive.
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Add to BookshelfThe Last One
by Alexandra Oliva
A married woman looking for one last great adventure before she and her husband start a family signs up for what is supposed to be the ultimate tv reality show: a wilderness survival show set in a national forest. Only one person can win, and she’s determined to be the one. The producers will use any tools at their disposal to get the competitors to quit, so when she happens upon what appears to be a victims of a deadly plague, she assumes the bodies are all special effects. Is she right?
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Out in the Open
by Jesús Carrasco
A young boy on the run crosses paths with an old shepherd. Together they embark on a journey across the chaotic, sun-parched wastelands of a country ruled by violence. Will the dangerous forces the boy hoped to leave behind him finally catch up with the two?
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The Wolf Road
by Beth Lewis
Elka was seven years-old when the man she knows as Trapper took her in as his own. He taught her to survive the worst that their bomb-blasted and irradiated world could throw at them. Now she’s learned something terrible about Trapper: He’s a murderer and a monster. Fearing that she’ll be his next victim, Elka sets out into the frozen wildlands of the north with only a knife at her side. She hopes to find her real parents, but with Trapper hot on her trail, it’s not going to be easy.
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
A father and son set out on an epic journey across the scorched ruins of post-apocalyptic America. Dogged by cannibals, thieves, and madmen at every turn and armed only with a revolver, their chances of surviving their journey are slim. They might find safety at the end of their destination, but nothing is certain in this world gone to hell.
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
A bunch of tourists on vacation in Mexico stumble into an ancient site that is home to a parasitic life form. The locals have kept it at bay by following one simple rule: anyone who enters the ruins cannot leave them alive. Now the vacationers are trapped in the ruins with something that hungers for their blood, and there’s no escape.
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The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
The Donner Party set out on their cross-country journey hoping for a better life. Instead, they found disaster. Something is picking off the members of the party one by one. Could there be a killer among them, or is there something supernatural stalking their ill-fated wagon train? As paranoia and fear grips take hold, the travelers turn on each other. Little do they know that there are even worse horrors ahead.
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