The 10 Scariest Eldritch Horror Books, Ranked

Eldritch horror is a subgenre focused on existential dread. The word itself means weird, sinister, ghostly, or otherworldly, and the monsters in it tend to be god-like entities that rule the cosmos through sheer force of terror. Next to them, humans are little more than ants or microbes. Indeed, the meaninglessness of humanity is a major theme in these stories.