Oregon City Adult Horror Genre List

Horror books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated October 8, 2024
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Let the right one in
Ajvide Lindqvist, John
Paper Book
**The international bestseller and the book behind the film and play Let Me In** Let the Right One In Season 1 premieres Saturday, 8th October 2022 on Paramount+ UK. 'The new Stephen King' The Times Oskar and Eli. In very...
Flowers in the attic
Andrews, V. C.
Paper Book
The haunting young adult gothic romance classic that launched Virginia Andrews' incredible best-selling career. Up in the attic, four secrets are hidden. Four blonde, beautiful, innocent little secrets, struggling to stay alive... Chris, Cathy, Cory and Carrie...
The Amityville horror
Anson, Jay
Audiobook
World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war
Brooks, Max.
Ebook
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror,...
Chasing the boogeyman : a novel
Chizmar, Richard
Paper Book
The acclaimed NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling novel of small-town evil that 'is genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting' (Stephen King) and 'unforgettable' (Harlan Coben). Summer 1988: the mutilated bodies of several missing girls are discovered in a...
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily Collins. 'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN 'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a...
Geek love
Dunn, Katherine
Paper Book
A National Book Award Finalist: This 'wonderfully descriptive' novel from an author with a 'tremendous imagination' tells the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias have bred their own exhibit of human...
American psycho : a novel
Ellis, Bret Easton.
Paper Book
Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature. With an introduction by...
The collector
Fowles, John
Paper Book
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EVIE WYLD 'There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller' New York Times Weird, withdrawn, and unloved, Fred is a young collector of butterflies. One day his eye...
Trigger warning : short fictions and disturbances
Gaiman, Neil
Paper Book
Into the drowning deep
Grant, Mira
Paper Book
'VISCERAL . . . IRRESISTIBLE . . . a claustrophobic, deep-sea terror tale that will leave readers glad to be safely on dry land' Kirkus NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MIRA GRANT RETURNS WITH A RAZOR-SHARP TALE OF THE HORRORS THAT LIE BENEATH . . . ...
An apple for the creature
Harris, Charlaine.
Paper Book
"What could be scarier than the first day of school? Take a crash course in the paranormal from editors Charleen Harris and Toni L.P Kelner in An Apple for the Creature, featuring thirteen all-new tales out of school! Your school days are supposed to be the happiest days of your life - until you...
Wolfsbane and mistletoe
Harris, Charlaine.
Paper Book
Charlaine Harris, Keri Arthur and Patricia Briggs bring you a Christmas present to remember! We all know the holiday season can bring out the beast in anyone - but it's especially hard if you're a lycanthrope! Gathered here together is a veritable feast of fears and tears: fifteen of the...
Kwaidan : Japanese ghost stories
Hearn, Lafcadio
Paper Book
This collection of Japanese supernatural stories is a classic work in the field of Japanese horror. Known primarily as an early interpreter of Japanese culture and customs, the famous writer Lafcadio Hearn also wrote ghost stories--"delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches"-...
NOS4A2 : a novel
Hill, Joe.
Paper Book
Summer. Massachusetts. An old Silver Wraith with a frightening history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished business. Anyone could be next. We're going to Christmasland... NOS4R2 is an old-fashioned horror novel in the best sense....
The haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley
Ebook
The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most...
The shining
King, Stephen
Paper Book
The burning world : a novel
Marion, Isaac
Paper Book
R is recovering from death. He's learning how to read, how to speak, maybe even how to love. He can almost imagine a future with Julie, this girl who restarted his heart - building a new world from the ashes of the old one. And then helicopters appear on the horizon. A mysterious army...
I am legend
Matheson, Richard
Audiobook
Certain dark things
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood-drinkers, is smart and beautiful - and very...
The night house
Nesbø, Jo
Paper Book
A twisted spin on the classic coming-of-age horror story from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Jo Nesbo WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER... In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with...
Revenge : eleven dark tales
Ogawa, Yōko
Paper Book
A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he...
The merry spinster : tales of everyday horror
Ortberg, Mallory
Paper Book
'Dark and dreadful and persistently clever. Ortberg bloodily turns familiar tales inside out.' Rainbow Rowell 'A collection of stories delectable, formidable, and nimble. As a fantasist and short story writer, Ortberg is without peer.' Kelly Link ...
White is for witching
Oyeyemi, Helen
Paper Book
In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity. All is not well with the house, either, which creaks and...
The mysteries of Udolpho : a romance
Radcliffe, Ann Ward
Paper Book
This was the most popular novel of Radcliffe's time and Radcliffe's portrayal of her heroine's inner life raised the Gothic romance to a new level. The atmosphere of fear and the gripping plot continue to thrill today. This is the story of the orphaned Emily St Aubert who finds herself separated...
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake...
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 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...
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Paper Book
'The very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years' Arthur Conan Doyle A masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. It begins when Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to...
The cabin at the end of the world : a novel
Tremblay, Paul
Paper Book
*Now a major film release as 'Knock at the Cabin' to be released on 2nd February 2023* The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating...
The cherry robbers
Walker, Sarai
Paper Book
'First they get married, then they get buried' ... you can run from a family curse, but you can't hide forever.
Little Eve
Ward, Catriona
Paper Book
The book of accidents : a novel
Wendig, Chuck
Paper Book
'Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror' Adam Christopher 'A rich, rewarding tale' The Guardian ____________________________________________________________________________ A family returns to their...
Zone one : a novel
Whitehead, Colson
Ebook

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