Back Spooky Reads | Book List

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Spooky Reads  
The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Grotesque

Natsuo Kirino - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Natsuo Kirino made a spectacular fiction debut on these shores with the publication of Edgar Award-nominated Out ("Daring and disturbing . . . Prepared to push the limits of this world . . . Remarkable" - Los Angeles Times) . Unanimously lauded for her unique,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Affinity

Sarah Waters - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding ghost story set in Victorian London.Greeted with enthusiastic praise, Sarah Waters's debut novel, Tipping the Velvet, was lauded as "amazing" and "delightful" (Salon.com), "buoyant and accomplished" (The New York Times Book Review), "glorious"...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel

Paul Tremblay - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.The...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Baby Teeth: A Novel

ZOJE STAGE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

One of Entertainment Weekly's Must-Read Books for JulyPeople Magazine's Book of the Week "Gripping" -- InStyle"Propulsive." -- New York Times Book ReviewOne of Bustle's "Fifteen Books With Chilling Protagonists That Will Keep You Guessing""A...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Beloved

Toni Morrison - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Boy's Life

Robert R McCammon

Don't miss the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling award-winning author Robert McCammon, in a book that Publishers Weekly calls "both a mystery that will satisfy the most finicky aficionado and a boisterous travelogue."Zephyr, Alabama
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Broken Girls

Simone St James - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A breakout suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare.Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Chalk Man: A Novel

C J Tudor - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The must-read thriller of 2018, this riveting and relentlessly compelling psychological suspense debut will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking endingIn 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Death of Mrs. Westaway

RUTH WARE - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fourth novel.On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dracula (Signet Classics)

Bram Stoker - Signet Classics; Reissue edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The original vampire Since its publication in 1897, Dracula continues to terrify readers with its depiction of a vampire with an insatiable thirst for blood and the group of hunters determined to end his existence before he destroys a young woman's soul. @BleedingGums A damsel...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Fifth Child

Doris Lessing - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction--period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature.-"The Washington Post Book World "Readers familiar...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Barnes & Noble Classics
Format: Hardcover

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition
Read More check catalog
 
 
Generation Loss: A Novel

Elizabeth Hand - Small Beer Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Startling, unclassifiable. . . Full of mysteries — all originating in its characters’ troubled psyches — and full of terrors that can’t be explained."—New York Times Praise for Elizabeth Hand’s previous novels: “Inhabits a world...
Read More check catalog