Scary Video Games? I Cannot. Books About Them? Yes.

Speaking of video games I won’t play because I’m too scared… Resident Evil. But if you are brave enough to be a fan of this game, then show your love with this cool Umbrella Corp bookmark. Hey, I have watched the movies, so I do know what this means, and this is really cool. This bookmark is printed and pressed on a 2×6 aluminum piece. It’s $12 and ships quickly! So you can put this bookmark in your book before the zombie apocalypse.

Here’s the second volume in Amy Chu and Soo Lee’s graphic novel series Carmilla: the Last Vampire Hunter. This queer, feminist horror story reimagines the classic tale of Carmilla in contemporary times. Volume 2 sees vampire hunter Athena Lo travel to San Francisco’s Chinatown to discover more about her past.

Pink Slime is a dystopian horror novel in translation about a city being destroyed by an algae bloom that poisons the air. As the city is taken over by plague, a secret corporation produces the only kind of food anyone can actually afford: a mysterious pink slime. This novel was released in Uruguay in 2020 but was recently translated into English by Heather Cleary.

Let’s talk about video game horror. Yikes. This first one is another novel in translation. 16-year-old Nick receives a strange computer game called Erebos. The game is strangely secretive. You’re always supposed to play alone. You’re never supposed to talk about the game. And you’re never to tell anyone your nickname in the game. When the game gives Nick a dangerous assignment and he refuses to do it, Nick is banished from the game forever. But who is the manipulative, cunning person behind the game? Nick is determined to find out.

Love Clown in a Cornfield? Then read Adam Cesare’s arcade game-inspired horror novel. Robby Asaro is a ghost living inside of an arcade game. When Robby sets out to protect arcade patron Tiffany Park, he unwittingly sets off a supernatural disaster. Tiffany and her friends now find themselves trapped inside the arcade. What was once their safe haven is now a place of mass murder, and if they don’t get out soon, they could be next.