Final Girls Book Club — Polls

Last rebuilt: September 28, 2026

32
Polls held
833
Total votes cast
16.0
Avg. unique voters
1.7
Avg. votes/person
Closest race
September 2025 (Novel poll): Something Wicked This Way Comes (11 votes) vs. The Exorcist (11 votes) — 0-vote gap
Biggest landslide
June 2025 (Novel poll): Native Fear (18 votes) vs. The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (5 votes) — 13-vote gap
Turnout over time
26.0130
May 2025 → September 2026 · avg unique voters per month · hover a bar for exact value

2026

September 2026 →
Novel poll 18 voters · 27 votes cast
  • Ring Winner — Kōji Suzuki 11 · 41%
  • Piercing — Ryū Murakami 6 · 22%
  • Our Share of Night — Mariana Enríquez 6 · 22%
  • Let the Right One In — John Ajvide Lindqvist 4 · 15%
Short story poll 13 voters · 18 votes cast
  • The Human Chair Winner — Edogawa Ranpo 7 · 39%
  • The Queen of Spades — Alexander Pushkin 5 · 28%
  • The Aleph — Jorge Luis Borges 4 · 22%
  • The Secret Life of Insects — Bernardo Esquinca 2 · 11%
August 2026 →
Novel poll 19 voters · 33 votes cast
  • You Weren’t Meant to Be Human Winner — Andrew Joseph White 12 · 36%
  • The Cipher — Kathe Koja 9 · 27%
  • The Ruins — Scott Smith 7 · 21%
  • The Troop — Nick Cutter 5 · 15%
Short story poll 14 voters · 22 votes cast
  • Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament Winner — Clive Barker 9 · 41%
  • Spar — Kij Johnson 6 · 27%
  • Skeleton — Ray Bradbury 5 · 23%
  • My Husband Has Taken Our Roleplaying Too Far — Christian Wallis 2 · 9%
July 2026 →
Novel poll 21 voters · 21 votes cast
  • Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery Winner — Brom 8 · 38%
  • Maggie's Grave — David Sodergren 7 · 33%
  • Red Rabbit — Alex Grecian 4 · 19%
  • The Year of the Witching — Alexis Henderson 2 · 10%
Short story poll 19 voters · 20 votes cast
  • This Town Doesn't Exist on Any Map Winner — Tobias Wade 8 · 40%
  • Viy — Nikolai Gogol 6 · 30%
  • Dreams in the Witch House — H.P. Lovecraft 5 · 25%
  • The White People — Arthur Machen 1 · 5%
June 2026 →
Novel poll 18 voters · 27 votes cast
  • When the Wolf Comes Home Winner — Nat Cassidy 8 · 30%
  • Mongrels — Stephen Graham Jones 7 · 26%
  • The Howling — Gary Brandner 6 · 22%
  • Those Across the River — Christopher Buehlman 6 · 22%
Short story poll 13 voters · 13 votes cast
  • The Belonging Kind Winner — William Gibson and John Shirley 7 · 54%
  • Hardshell — Dean Koontz 6 · 46%
May 2026 →
Novel poll 15 voters · 25 votes cast
  • Cabal Winner — Clive Barker 8 · 32%
  • Bloom — Delilah S. Dawson 6 · 24%
  • Misery — Stephen King 6 · 24%
  • Brother — Ania Ahlborn 5 · 20%
Short story poll 12 voters · 12 votes cast
  • Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke — Eric LaRocca 6 · 50%
  • The Monster of Elendhaven Winner — Jennifer Giesbrecht 6 · 50%
April 2026 →
Novel poll 13 voters · 28 votes cast
  • Hungerstone Winner — Kat Dunn 6 · 21%
  • Vampire Hunter D: The Rose Princess — Hideyuki Kikuchi 6 · 21%
  • A Dowry of Blood — S.T. Gibson 6 · 21%
  • Let the Right One In — John Ajvide Lindqvist 5 · 18%
  • House of Hunger — Alexis Henderson 5 · 18%
Short story poll 12 voters · 19 votes cast
  • Carmilla Winner — Sheridan Le Fanu 8 · 42%
  • The V*mpire — P.H. Lee 6 · 32%
  • The Cloak — Robert Bloch 5 · 26%
March 2026 →
Novel poll 15 voters · 26 votes cast
  • Mexican Gothic Winner — Silvia Moreno-Garcia 12 · 46%
  • Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier 6 · 23%
  • The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson 5 · 19%
  • The Turn of the Screw — Henry James 3 · 12%
Short story poll 11 voters · 19 votes cast
  • The Fall of the House of Usher Winner — Edgar Allan Poe 10 · 53%
  • The Ruins of Contracoeur — Joyce Carol Oates 5 · 26%
  • The Judge's House — Bram Stoker 4 · 21%
February 2026 →
Novel poll 14 voters · 29 votes cast
  • The Road Winner — Cormac McCarthy 10 · 34%
  • All the Fiends of Hell — Adam Nevill 9 · 31%
  • Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler 7 · 24%
  • The Book of Koli — M.R. Carey 3 · 10%
Short story poll 13 voters · 29 votes cast
  • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Winner — Harlan Ellison 12 · 41%
  • There Will Come Soft Rains — Ray Bradbury 8 · 28%
  • The Machine Stops — E.M. Forster 5 · 17%
  • All Tomorrows — C.M. Kośemen 4 · 14%
January 2026 →
Novel poll 12 voters · 29 votes cast
  • Frankenstein Winner — Mary Shelley 9 · 31%
  • Intercepts — T.J. Payne 7 · 24%
  • Coma — Robin Cook 7 · 24%
  • The Hot Zone — Richard Preston 6 · 21%
Short story poll 11 voters · 25 votes cast
  • The Jaunt Winner — Stephen King 8 · 32%
  • It Breathes, It Bleeds, It Breeds — EmpyrealInvective 7 · 28%
  • Herbert West–Reanimator — H.P. Lovecraft 6 · 24%
  • Feed Them Silence — Lee Mandelo 4 · 16%

2025

December 2025 →
Novel poll 13 voters · 27 votes cast
  • Annihilation Winner — Jeff VanderMeer 10 · 37%
  • The Hollow Places — T. Kingfisher 7 · 26%
  • By the Light of Dead Stars — Andrew Van Wey 6 · 22%
  • Our Share of Night — Mariana Enríquez 4 · 15%
Short story poll 14 voters · 19 votes cast
  • The Ballad of Black Tom Winner — Victor LaValle 6 · 32%
  • There Is No Antimemetics Division — qntm 6 · 32%
  • The Yellow Sign — Robert W. Chambers 4 · 21%
  • Ring Shout — P. Djèlí Clark 3 · 16%
November 2025 →
Novel poll 17 voters · 32 votes cast
  • Into the Drowning Deep Winner — Mira Grant 15 · 47%
  • The Fisherman — John Langan 10 · 31%
  • Our Wives Under the Sea — Julia Armfield 5 · 16%
  • Whalefall — Daniel Kraus 2 · 6%
Short story poll 15 voters · 32 votes cast
  • The Upper Berth — F. Marion Crawford 9 · 28%
  • The Temple — H.P. Lovecraft 9 · 28%
  • The Shadow over Innsmouth Winner — H.P. Lovecraft 9 · 28%
  • A Tropical Horror — William Hope Hodgson 5 · 16%
October 2025 →
Novel poll 20 voters · 36 votes cast
  • The Vegetarian Winner — Han Kang 10 · 28%
  • Exoskeleton — Shane Stadler 9 · 25%
  • The Cipher — Kathe Koja 9 · 25%
  • The Troop — Nick Cutter 8 · 22%
Short story poll 20 voters · 38 votes cast
  • The Body Politic Winner — Clive Barker 12 · 32%
  • What Moves the Dead — T. Kingfisher 9 · 24%
  • Who Goes There? — John W. Campbell Jr. 9 · 24%
  • Skeleton — Ray Bradbury 8 · 21%
September 2025 →
Novel poll 18 voters · 36 votes cast
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes — Ray Bradbury 11 · 31%
  • The Exorcist Winner — William Peter Blatty 11 · 31%
  • Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy 7 · 19%
  • The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson 7 · 19%
Short story poll 14 voters · 21 votes cast
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Winner — Joyce Carol Oates 10 · 48%
  • The Husband Stitch — Carmen Maria Machado 6 · 29%
  • The Lottery — Shirley Jackson 5 · 24%
August 2025 →
Novel poll 22 voters · 34 votes cast
  • Between Two Fires Winner — Christopher Buehlman 13 · 38%
  • When the Wolf Comes Home — Nat Cassidy 8 · 24%
  • The Exorcist — William Peter Blatty 8 · 24%
  • The Troop — Nick Cutter 5 · 15%
Short story poll 18 voters · 28 votes cast
  • A Short Stay in Hell Winner — Steven L. Peck 11 · 39%
  • Carmilla — Sheridan Le Fanu 9 · 32%
  • Cabal — Clive Barker 8 · 29%
July 2025 →
Novel poll 19 voters · 35 votes cast
  • The Haar Winner — David Sodergren 14 · 40%
  • Home — Ben Young 7 · 20%
  • Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng — Kylie Lee Baker 7 · 20%
  • Suffer the Children — Craig DiLouie 7 · 20%
June 2025 →
Novel poll 26 voters · 43 votes cast
  • Native Fear Winner — C.F. Page 18 · 42%
  • Ring — Kōji Suzuki 11 · 26%
  • The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson 9 · 21%
  • The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes — Neil Gaiman 5 · 12%
May 2025 →
Novel poll 17 voters · 30 votes cast
  • Beta: A Technological Nightmare Winner — Sammy Scott 12 · 40%
  • The Hollow Places — T. Kingfisher 8 · 27%
  • Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng — Kylie Lee Baker 6 · 20%
  • Goddess of Filth — V. Castro 4 · 13%
April 2025 →
Novel poll Turnout not recorded
  • Suffer the Children — Craig DiLouie 27%
  • The Last House on Needless Street Winner — Catriona Ward 27%
  • The Call — Peadar Ó Guilín 18%
  • Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery — Brom 18%
  • What Lies Between Us — John Marrs 10%