| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dead Children’s Playground | 2024 | James Kaine | Buy |
| 2 | Devil of the Pines | 2025 | James Kaine | Buy |
American Horrors roots its horror in real American places and legends. The Dead Children’s Playground (2024) takes its name from a reportedly haunted location, and Devil of the Pines (2025) draws on pine forest folklore. The series uses specific American settings to ground its supernatural fiction in recognizable, unsettling landscapes.
There are two books in the American Horrors series, published between 2024 and 2025.
The first book in the American Horrors series is The Dead Children’s Playground, published in 2024.
“The Dead Children’s Playground is the first book in the American Horrors series, published in 2024. The title refers to a real location — a haunted playground in Huntsville, Alabama, that has been the subject of ghost stories for decades. Kaine uses this real-world legend as the foundation for a horror story about what happens when the stories turn out to be true.”
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