8 Horror Coloring Books to Keep the Holidays Creepy

The perfect gift for the creative horror fan in your life—or a playful treat for yourself!

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In the past few years, coloring books have proven themselves to be a great way to spend time, flex your creative muscles, and relax. With the holiday season kicking into full gear, it can be a challenge to find a good gift for horror fans. Luckily, horror coloring books are the perfect solution! Coloring is a soothing activity for people of all ages, and fans of horror will love spending time coloring in these intricate illustrations of their favorite horror characters and spooky scenes. 

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The Beauty of Horror 1: A GOREgeous Coloring Book

The Beauty of Horror

The first in Alan Robert’s Beauty of Horror series, A GOREgeous Coloring Book highlights Robert’s artistic skills as he creates beautifully horrific images to color. This book explores all kinds of horror settings like haunted burial grounds, torture chambers, and the zombie apocalypse. 

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Coloring Classic

Bram Stoker's Dracula

One of the most classic horror tales of all time gets the coloring book treatment here. Each page contains a detailed drawing to color in and is accompanied by an iconic quote from Bram Stoker’s iconic work. 

Jack-O’-Lantern: Halloween Coloring Book

Jack-O'-Lantern

For horror fans who want to keep their coloring a little more lighthearted, look no further than Jack-O’-Lantern. These adorable images from illustrator Alvaro Madero feature pumpkin pals doing all sorts of Halloween activities. This is the perfect book for people who have already started their Halloween countdown.

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Edgar Allen Poe: An Adult Coloring Book

Edgar Allan Poe

The drawings in this book are not only illustrations of the works of Edgar Allen Poe, but evoke the unnerving horror in all of them. You’ll find images from all of Poe’s best-known stories including The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher

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Twisted Terrors Coloring Book

Twisted Terrors

No list of horror coloring books would be complete without the opportunity to color in some of horror’s most iconic characters. Twisted Terrors also comes with several fun activities that will keep you entertained for hours, as well as feeling a little nostalgic. 

The Horror Castle

The Horror Castle

In this coloring book, take a trip through one of horror’s most classic settings, a haunted castle. Enjoy these spine-chillingly detailed illustrations of vengeful spirits, graveyards, and paintings whose eyes seem to follow you wherever you go. 

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Princess Horror Coloring Book

Princess Horror

If you want to add a fun Disney twist to your horror, this is the book for you! Enjoy coloring these macabre takes on all your favorite princesses. There are over 50 to choose from. 

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Macabre Horror Coloring Book for Adults

Macabre Horror Coloring Book for Adults

This coloring book embraces horror completely with pages of all sorts of twisted and dark scenes from creepy clowns and kids to homages to horror films. Do note that this book is not for kids and contains adult language as well as some upsetting imagery.