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It is officially spooky season: the leaves are falling, the days are getting shorter, and there's a chill in the air that feels like more than just the weather. Why not set the mood with some of the best horror writing the library has to offer? These tales will provide just the right amount of atmosphere, mystery, and occasional nightmare fuel to put you in the Halloween spirit all month long.

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  • "The Only Good Indians" follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and…
    Book, 2020New York : Saga Press, [2020]
  • A young woman is determined to investigate an ancestral curse and generations of mysterious deaths in a brooding and ghostly British mansion. (British Fantasy Award)
    Book, 2017Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2017]
  • A socialite in 1950s Mexico follows her cousin into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion, where the walls seem to move on their own, and the family within hide sinister intentions. (Locus Award, Aurora Award)
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020]
  • From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary folktale in which a mother and daughter take in passersby and eat them, exploring queerness, first loves, and tense mother-daughter relationships. Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025
  • Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion. From early on, their stay is rife with spooky encounters, inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.…
    Book, 2013New York : Penguin Books, 2013
  • Two weeks ago, Christine Sinclaire's husband slipped off the roof while hanging Christmas lights and fell to his death on the front lawn. Desperate to escape her guilt and her grief, Christine packs up her fifteen-year-old son and the family cat and…
    Book, 2024London : Titan Books, 2024
  • They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back. New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists, and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black but alive with radio…
    Book, 2025New York : Orbit, 2025
  • When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire…
    Book, 2016New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
  • When Ruth is caught shoplifting from the megachurch-owned craft store in her small hometown, she is locked in and attacked by employees who seem to have a secret and sinister plan for her.
    Book, 2025Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2025]
  • Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make his mortgage payments on his new brownstone, he's desperate to make ends meet for his fiancée, Krista. Enter: Whitney. Beautiful,…
    Book, 2025Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, 2025, ©2025
  • Louise's parents have passed away, and she's returning to the small Southern town where she grew up to get their house ready to sell. It means she'll have to spend time with her younger brother, and their old grudges make that a terrifying prospect.…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, [2023]
  • When Noah's aging parents stop returning his calls, he travels to their Virginia home and finds it in shambles. They have been violently possessed via the media they watch-and much of the country is succumbing, too. With his nephew-also…
    Book, 2025Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2025]
  • A family vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake face a home invasion by four strangers carrying menacing but unidentifiable objects who claim to be acting to save the world. (Bram Stoker Award, Locus Award)
    Book, 2018New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
  • Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead, the walls are a sterile…
    Book, 2023New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2023
  • In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, [2022]
  • Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes. Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous.…
    Book, 2020New York : Dutton, [2020]
  • Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, a grieving widower returns to his former Maine getaway only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations.…
    Book, 2008New York : Scribner, 2008
  • A man learns that his wife has been killed in an accident days before his release from prison. On the plane ride back home for the funeral, he meets Mr. Wednesday, who offers him a job—one far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined. (Bram…
    Book, 2013New York : William Morrow, 2013, c2011