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A list of classic and newer horror titles to speed up your heart rate.

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  • A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In…
    BookNew York : William Morrow, 2001, c1997. — FICTION BRADBURY
  • Out There Screaming

    An Anthology of New Black Horror

    The visionary writer and director of Get Out , Us , and Nope , and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the…
    BookNew York : Random House, [2023] — 808.838738 OUT
  • The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means…
    Book[San Francisco] : Two Lines Press, [2024] — FICTION MARTINEZ
  • Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who…
    PaperbackBrooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2022] — FICTION YEJIDE
  • When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it…
    PaperbackNew York : Pocket Books, c1983. — FICTION KING
  • This story... follows the lives of four American Indian men and their families, all haunted by a disturbing, deadly event that took place in their youth. Years later, they find themselves tracked by an entity bent on revenge, totally…
    PaperbackNew York : Saga Press, 2021. — FICTION JONES
  • FBI trainee Clarise Starling is assigned to interview a brilliant, imprisoned psychopathic killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. She needs him to bring in a psychotic serial killer.
    PaperbackNew York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. — FICTION HARRIS
  • There's a new drug on the street: Glow. Said to heal almost any illness, its main ingredient is blood--the blood of immortals. A small but powerful underground railroad of immortals is distributing the blood, slowly wiping out the AIDS…
    PaperbackNew York : Atria Books, 2008. — FICTION DUE
  • In Bird Box, brilliantly imaginative debut author Josh Malerman captures an apocalyptic near-future world, where a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And…
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014] — FICTION MALERMAN
  • A story of a young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life,…
    BookNew York : Seven Stories Press, 2005. — FICTION BUTLER
  • Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
    PaperbackNew York : Vantage Classics, 2011. — FICTION STOKER
  • An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a…
    PaperbackTroy, New York : Clash Books, 2023. — FICTION LAROCCA
  • Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.
    PaperbackNew York : Bantam Books, 2003. — FICTION KOONTZ
  • Coming of age in an old farmhouse, nineteen-year-old Ruthie begins a search for her agoraphobic mother and discovers the century-old diary of the farmhouse's long-ago resident, a grieving mother who died under mysterious circumstances.
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2014] — FICTION MCMAHON
  • World War Z

    An Oral History of the Zombie War

    Brooks, Max
    We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed…
    PaperbackNew York : Broadway Paperbacks, [2013] — FICTION BROOKS
  • A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries.
    PaperbackNew York : Pantheon Books, c2000. — FICTION DANIELEWSKI
  • A Jesuit priest, unable to find plausible explanations for an eleven-year-old's strange behavior, begins to suspect demonic possession.
    PaperbackNew York, NY : Harper, c2011. — FICTION BLATTY
  • It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a 'haunting'; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile…
    BookNew York, New York, USA : Penguin Books, 2013. — FICTION JACKSON
  • Witchcraft and terror await Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse when they move into the ominous Bramford apartment building.
    PaperbackNew York : Pegasus Books, c2010. — FICTION LEVIN
  • Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street--aka Zone One--but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are…
    BookNew York : Doubleday, c2011. — FICTION WHITEHEAD