Shockingly Good Reads

Updated September 24, 2025
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Ghost eaters : a novel
Chapman, Clay McLeod
Paper Book
"A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page."-Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Accidents One of Vulture's Best Horror...
My heart is a chainsaw
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan...
Book of Witching
Cooke, C. J.
Paper Book
⭐A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick⭐ 'Chilling and beautifully written ... C.J. Cooke's finest novel yet' Emilia Hart 'A spellbinding thriller' Scots Magazine Four hundred years separate them. One book binds them. Glasgow 2024: Clem waits...
What moves the dead
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" from Hugo, Locus, &...
Devils kill devils
Compton, Johnny
Paper Book
Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horror. Johnny Compton brings his trademark terror and dread that readers fell in love with in The Spite House to a new roster of monsters--angels, devils, vampires-...
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Paper Book
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England- an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman...
The first bright thing
Dawson, J. R. (Omaha teaching artist)
Paper Book
If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today? "This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."―Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway Ringmaster -- Rin,...
The turn of the screw and other stories
James, Henry
Paper Book
Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most...
World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war
Brooks, Max.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies."--Entertainment Weekly   We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by...
Home before dark : a novel
Sager, Riley
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020 "A haunted house story--with a twist....[Sager] does not hold back"(Rolling Stone) in this chilling thriller from the author of Final Girls and Survive the...
Home before dark
Sager, Riley
Paper Book
What was it like? Living in that house.Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later...

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