1} The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The mansion itself is evil in this chilling horror story involving a repressed young woman who visits Hill House to take part in investigating paranormal activity and mysterious goings-on…
2} Ghost Story by Peter Straub 
Bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of four old men who gather to tell their own frightening stories but ……. who are instead all scared to death by the one terrible story they all share…
3} Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
This deliciously terrifying novel tells the story of a jaded rock star relentlessly haunted by a ghost from the internet…
4} Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Love and Goth; this tale spins out mostly in flashbacks and entangles a spooky love story with bizarre events that keep the reader in suspense til the end…
5} IT by Stephen King
I never looked at clowns the same again, much like readers across the globe. The story follows the terrorizing of seven children by a predatory entity that exploits their deepest fears and phobias…
6} On the Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt 
According to Black Forest Legend, the god of mischief is at play on the Night of the Seventh Moon. It is a night of love’s enchantment but turns into a terrifying nightmare…
7} The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes and Watson encounter deadly mysterious events on the spooky moors of England. [I’ve seen old movie makes of this famous tale but in this case, as in most others, “The book was better”]…
8} Hell House by Richard Matheson
A crew of four people are hired to investigate the likelihood of life after death and to do so they must enter the most haunted house in the world named Hell House due to the unspeakable acts that occurred there…
9} Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
One of the world’s best anti-war books, Slaughterhouse Five follows the odyssey of Billy Pilgrim, after his terrifying experiences in the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany…
10} Coraline by Neil Gaiman
What’s behind the locked door in the drawing room? Coraline soon finds out and enters a horrifying nightmare trying to rescue loved ones trapped behind a mirror from the monstrous creatures that dwell there…
11} The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 
One of literature’s most gripping short novels tells of the sinister transformation of two innocent children into lying hypocrites. Psychological terror creates a feeling of pure dread…
12} Perfume by Patrick Suskind 
The tale of an unloved 18th-century French orphan who, having been born with an animal-like sense of smell, becomes a perfumer turned murderer when he encounters a young girl with an exquisite scent…
13} A Moment on the Edge edited by Elizabeth George
A century’s worth of chilling crime fiction written by women is put together by New York Times bestselling author, Elizabeth George. These tales of dark deeds will keep you reading long into the night...
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