Halloween Horrors

Updated August 28, 2024
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Bird box /
Malerman, Josh,
Paper Book
Josh Malerman's debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading. Malorie raises the children the only way she can: indoors. The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are...
Black sheep /
Harrison, Rachel,
Paper Book
Nobody has a "normal" family, but Vesper Wright's is truly... something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back--mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn't return. But then an invitation to the wedding of Vesper's...
The book of cold cases
St. James, Simone
Paper Book
In 1977, in the small town of Claire Lake, two men were murdered with the same gun. Beth Greer was the prime suspect - a rich, eccentric 23-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. Ever since her surprise acquittal, she's retreated to her mansion and never commented publicly on the case...
The broken girls /
St. James, Simone.
Paper Book
THEY WON'T FORGIVE. THEY WON'T FORGET. 'Clever and wonderfully chilling. It held me hostage' - Fiona Barton, Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Widow and The Child 'A brilliant page-turner' Jenny Quintana, author of The...
The cabin at the end of the world :
Tremblay, Paul.
Paper Book
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake, with their closest neighbours more than two miles in either direction. As Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway....
Daphne : a novel
Malerman, Josh
Paper Book
The daughter of Doctor Moreau : a novel
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. 'ONE OF...
The familiar /
Bardugo, Leigh.
Paper Book
In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil. But when her scheming mistress discovers her scullion is hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to win over the royal court. ...
The final girl support group /
Hendrix, Grady,
Paper Book
In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her? Lynnette...
Final girls
Sager, Riley,
Paper Book
'If you liked GONE GIRL you'll like this' STEPHEN KING FIRST THERE WERE THREE The media calls them the Final Girls - Quincy, Sam, Lisa - the infamous group that no one wants to be part of. The sole survivors of three separate killing sprees,...
Hell bent /
Bardugo, Leigh.
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO NINTH HOUSE THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FANTASY OF 2023 __________________ Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell.<...
Horror movie :
Tremblay, Paul.
"Slasher movies are seen by some as kitschy fun, but this is a seriously disturbing novel, delving into the sacrifices art demands, psychological trauma and how monsters are made. Sometimes painful reading, it's also incredibly gripping, smart and scary." The Guardian ...
The house across the lake :
Sager, Riley,
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE Something is lurking beneath the water's surface... Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher has escaped to her family's lake house for peace and quiet. She's been happily losing...
How to sell a haunted house /
Hendrix, Grady,
Paper Book
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic career and her mother's lifelong obsession...
Incidents around the house :
Malerman, Josh,
'This book is the monster that lives inside your closet' - Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box, Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman...
Malorie : a Bird Box novel
Malerman, Josh
Paper Book
Mexican Gothic /
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,
Paper Book
'You don't read this book so much as surrender to it. A dark and heady swoon' THE GUARDIAN 'As rich is suspense as it is in lush '50s atmosphere' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to...
Middle of the night :
Sager, Riley,
Paper Book
'Full of tension, urgency, atmosphere and feeling - this is Riley Sager at his very best' LEE CHILD THE BRAND NEW HEART-STOPPING THRILLER FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR The worst thing ever to happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan...
Murder road /
St. James, Simone.
Paper Book
April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead, clearly in trouble. They stop and pick her up. It's only once she's in the car that they see the blood. And then they see the headlights - far in...
My heart is a chainsaw /
Jones, Stephen Graham,
Paper Book
Some girls just don't know how to die. Jade Daniels is an outcast - half-Indian, with an abusive father, an absent mother - in Proofrock, a town that wants nothing to do with her. Now, one class away from dropping out of school, she is pouring her life and soul into her last assignment...
Nine lives :
Swanson, Peter,
Paper Book
Peter Swanson is back - with a chilling and fiendish puzzle of a novel which everyone will be talking about this Spring.
Ninth house /
Bardugo, Leigh.
Paper Book
'Impossible to put down' STEPHEN KING __________________ THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FANTASY OF 2019 AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF OCTOBER 2019<...
Nothing but blackened teeth
Khaw, Cassandra
Ebook
The only one left :
Sager, Riley,
Paper Book
**Get the brand new, Agatha Christie-inspired suspense thriller from Riley Sager now - WITH A VENGEANCE** THE HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Everyone believes that Lenora Hope is a mass murderer.
The Pallbearers Club :
Tremblay, Paul.
Paper Book
1988, and puberty has hit Art Barbara hard - he's a painfully socially awkward teenager, underweight, acne-ridden, and bent crooked by scoliosis. Worse, he has no extra credits to get him into college. So Art starts the Pallbearers' Club, dedicated to mourning the homeless and lonely - the people...
Silver nitrate
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'Like its namesake, Silver Nitrate catches fire and doesn't stop burning until the end' The Washington Post 'Perfection. No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia' Kiersten White, author of...
The southern book club's guide to slaying vampires /
Hendrix, Grady,
Paper Book
The New York Times Best Seller A Barnes & Noble Best Fiction Book of 2020 A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist Steel MagnoliasmeetsDraculain this '90s-set horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their...
The Sun Down Motel
St. James, Simone
Paper Book
Something hasn't been right at the Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why . . . 1982 Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel, in Fell. But...
Survive the night : a novel
Sager, Riley
Paper Book
What feasts at night /
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, Britain's foremost mycologist Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The locals won't talk about what happened to the caretaker. None of them will set foot on the...
What moves the dead /
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark,...
The woman in cabin 10 /
Ware, Ruth.
Paper Book
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES, STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY* 'Reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller' Stylist A PASSENGER IS MISSING...BUT WAS SHE EVER ON BOARD AT ALL? This was...
You shouldn't have come here /
Rose, Jeneva
Paper Book
'HOOOOLY MOOOOLY. My jaw is on the floor. What. A. Wild. Ride. I need to go stare at the wall in the dark for a few minutes... I read this book in ONE day because I couldn't put it down! The ending?! 👀' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ...
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