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Haunted Halloween

Looking for a scary story to read for Halloween? Check out one of these spine-tingling haunted books that will have you keeping the lights on!

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  • "Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBO's true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark. "Come home." Vera's mother called…
    Book, 2022New York : Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022. — FICTION GAILEY, SARAH
  • "Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life.…
    Book, 2023New York : Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — FICTION HAND, ELIZABETH
  • Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died…
    Book, 2017New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. — FICTION JONES, STEPHEN
  • "Maggie Holt doesn't believe in paranormal things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall. They spent twenty days there before…
    Book, 2020New York : Dutton, [2020] — FICTION SAGER, RILEY
  • "Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, 2022. — FICTION CANAS, ISABEL
  • "The Maxwell siblings return to their childhood home in the Dallas suburbs after the shocking news of their parents' death. They return to find the house, and the family itself, haunted by strange, inexplicable terrors"--
    Book, 2024New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — FICTION SOLOMON, RIVERS
  • One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners, mother, son and daughter, are struggling to keep pace…
    Book, 2009New York : Riverhead Books, 2009. — FICTION WATERS, SARAH
  • Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor, travels to the north of England to settle the estate of Alice Drablow, but unexpectedly encounters a series of sinister events.
    Book, 2011New York : Vintage Books, 2011. — FICTION HILL, SUSAN
  • "Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins…
    Book, 2023New York : Saga Press, 2023. — FICTION DUE, TANANARIVE
  • "A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook meets A Headful of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country. Eric Ross is…
    Book, 2023New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — FICTION COMPTON, JOHNNY
  • "At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. For years it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. Soon the door will be opened for the first time in decades. But something is waiting, lurking…
    Book, 2017San Francisco, California : Inkshares, Inc., [2017] — FICTION THOMAS, SCOTT
  • "A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from…
    Book, 2019New York : Doubleday, [2019] — FICTION MCMAHON, JENNIFER
  • "A thrilling psychological horror debut about a woman who is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes haunted, no matter the cost ... You can survive anything. That's what Margaret tells herself when the walls of her house start to…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, [2023] — FICTION ORLANDO, CARISSA
  • When the Perry family moves to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district, they soon discover that something isn't right, and that "something" is ready to come out of the shadows of their basement and into their lives.
    Book, 2012New York : Signet, 2012. — FICTION LITTLE, BENTLEY
  • Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across…
    Book, 2011New York : Bantam Books, [2011] — FICTION KOONTZ, DEAN
  • "From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror--The Death of Jane Lawrence. "Intense and amazing! It's like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak." -BookRiot. Practical,…
    Book, 2021New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. — FICTION STARLING, CAITLIN
  • "New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a hilarious and terrifying new novel that explores the way your past-and your family-can haunt you like nothing else.... Louise's parents have passed away, and she's…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, [2023] — FICTION HENDRIX, GRADY
  • "From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that…
    Book, 2022New York : Nightfire, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022. — FICTION KINGFISHER, T.
  • A child with a precognitive gift sees visions of an evil awaiting his family.
    Book, 2013New York : Anchor Books, 2013. — FICTION KING, STEPHEN
  • "A horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls "Other Mommy." To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is…
    Book, 2024New York : Del Rey, 2024. — FICTION MALERMAN, JOSH