We Interrupt Your Scrolling to Bring You 10 Analog Horror Books

Working at a Video Hut in small town Iowa isn’t the most exciting job for Jeremy. But when customers start to return their VHS with complaints of weird footage in the middle of their movies, Jeremy’s confused by the black and white scenes seemingly stuck in the middle of otherwise normal movies. The footage is strange, full of heavy breathing and a sinister barn that looks similar to one on the outskirts of town. But who put the footage in the middle of his romcoms and why?

After a journalist hears a radio show interrupted by a “rules of the road” segment while driving in the middle of the night, he becomes obsessed with the show’s seemingly fatal consequences if he doesn’t follow them. Or, so the DJ “not Buck Hensley” says. He sets out to find who runs the program, interviewing fellow night drivers, truckers, and other radio-listeners to find the source.

After four teenagers die within a day of each other, journalist Asakawa is determined to find out why. Tracing their lives back to the same location, he finds a VHS tape they all watched that says anyone who watches it will die within 10 days. Now, Asakawa has watched it and must find out how to break the VHS’s hold on him before he and his family meet the same fate.

Lost Signals is an anthology full of wavelength-related horror which includes radio frequencies, errant transmissions, and all kinds of sound waves. With stories of truckers compelled to investigate an abandoned radio station, alien music that makes people do evil things, and radio station recordings that should never be released, this anthology definitely has analog horror vibes.

Eighteen horror writers come together to share their found footage tales including a news channel spreading a zombie-like illness over its watchers, YouTubers investigating a ghost town, mixed media massacres, disturbing dashboard footage, and lockers full of creepy home movies.

After film critic Lois Cairns catches sight of a mysterious woman in an experimental movie, she’s led to Iris Whitcomb, a prominent and currently missing Canadian filmmaker. Lois starts to dig into the woman’s past, finding in her history a fanatic father, ties to religious figures, and strange parallels to Lois’s own life. As Lois digs deeper, her migraines worsen, her life spirals out of control, and it all seems to lead back to Whitcomb.

After high schooler Jenny Chen captures a strange creature called Mantis Man in the woods while making her own movie, she is compelled to find out more about it no matter how few people believe her. She seems to have a connection to the creature, but someone out there is determined to keep her quiet about what she’s found. All of the Found Footage series is excellent and this one is no different!

Down on his luck, Scott McGrath finds himself obsessed with the death of cult film director Stanislas Cordova’s daughter. The very same film director who partially led to McGrath’s difficulty with getting work as of late. Cordova is mysterious, his films spread under the table and rife with connections to tragedies. McGrath is determined to find out what’s really happening with the girl’s death and her father’s underground movies too.