Hey bookworm friends. I’m a big fan of open ended TTTopics like this week’s and I decided that I could combine it with Tammy’s Summer of Horror. So I searched my TBR for horror words for inspiration; I tried ‘ghost’, ‘haunt’, ‘blood’, but I either didn’t have enough or they were leaning towards fantasy more than actual horror books. I then realized there are a lot of books with the word ‘Dead’ in the title so that’s what I’m going with! Here are my Top 10 ‘Dead’ books for Summer of Horror (they can arguably be considered horror in some way).
Link-ups
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
Summer of Horror is hosted by Tammy @ Books, Bones, & Buffy
‘Dead’ Books for Summer of Horror
1. Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead by K. J. Parker
2. Once & Future, Vol. 1: The King is Undead by Kieron Gillen with Dan Mora
3. The Briar Book of the Dead by A. G. Slatter
4. Dead Things Are Closer than They Appear by Robin Wasley
5. The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
6. Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead by K. J. Parker
7. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
8. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
9. Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo
10. Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Let’s chat in the comments!
Have you read any of these books yet? Or, If you participated in TTT this week feel free to share your link with me 🖤
Dead clever 😉
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
And I thought I was the deviant one, trying to think of books with “cold” in the title!
A few bloggers have picked murder this week. Your theme matches theirs! 🙂
These all look super scary!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Only heard of the A.G. Slatter book, but haven’t read it.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2026/07/07/top-ten-tuesday-books-with-the-word-summer-in-the-title/