Rebecca Schier-Akamelu
An American author whose works focus on horror and speculative fiction. Her debut novel, Negative Images, will be released by Rising Action Publishing on July 22, 2025. Her short story, “From One to the Next,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. When not writing, she spends time with her husband, three children, and dog and encourages them all to be a little weird, a little macabre, and to embrace dark humor.
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Recommended Reading
Below are a few of my favorite books, in no particular order. No author is featured more than once, but it’s safe to say I probably like their other works, too.
Horror
- Pet Sematary, by Stephen King.
- The Watchers, by A.M. Shine.
- How to Sell a Haunted House, by Grady Hendrix.
- The Spite House, by Johnny Compton.
- The September House, by Carissa Orlando.
- Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Last House on Needless Street, by Catriona Ward
- My Dearest Darkest, by Kayla Cottingham
- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
- The Yellow Wall-Paper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mystery/Thriller
- The Last Murder at the End of the World, by Stuart Turton, by Stephen King.
- Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide, by Rupert Holmes
- Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch
- Home Before Dark, by Riley Sager.
- The Two Lila Bennetts, by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
- My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- The Maid, by Nita Prose
- The It Girl, by Ruth Ware
- The Word is Murder (Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #1), Anthony Horowitz
- In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1), by Tana French
SciFi/Fantasy/Speculative
- Golden State, by Ben H. Winters.
- Storm and Fury (The Harbinger #1), by Jennifer L. Armentrout.
- Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha #1), by Tomi Adeyemi.
- The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician #1), by Charlie N. Holmberg
- The Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney
- The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1), by Jonathan Stroud
- The Martian, by Andy Weir
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years #1), by Gregory Maguire
- Opposite of Always, by Justin A. Reynolds