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...
Screams from the dark : 29 tales of monsters and the monstrous
Datlow, Ellen
Paper Book
A bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor, Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contains twenty-nine all-original tales about monsters. WINNER of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology! A Shirley Jackson and Locus...
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...
Haunt sweet home
Pinsker, Sarah
Paper Book
On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker. A Most Anticipated Pick for Library Journal | Polygon | CrimeReads | Screen Rant...
Vampires of El Norte
Cañas, Isabel
Paper Book
As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters - her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead....
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
The classic tale of gothic horror in a beautiful, elegant presentation.
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 exorcist
Blatty, William Peter.
Paper Book
"A horror story for all midnights." -- The Boston Globe Inspired by the shockingly true story of a child's demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty's iconic novel focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C. When...
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 : 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...
Nothing but blackened teeth
Khaw, Cassandra
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Award Finalist! * An Indie Next Pick! * An October LibraryReads Pick! * 2022 RUSA Reading List: Horror Winner! Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a...

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