Horror Ghosts & Gothic Books

Horror books are amazingly popular! Some are thought-provoking, like The Alienist; others are scary, like the Exorcist. If you like delving into another dimension, youll like these books.

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

All That Lives: a Novel of the Bell Witch by Melissa Sanders-Self

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

Blue Is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Carrie by Stephen King

Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

the Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce

a Density of Souls by Christopher Rice

Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales Edited by Deborah Noyes

A Great and Terrible Beauty: the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Locked in Time by Lois Duncan

The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

Look for Me by Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn

The Night Country by Stewart O’nan

Poison by Chris Wooding

Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Revenge of the Witch: the Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney

Rhymes with Witches by Lauren Myracle

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Sweetblood by Pete Hautman

Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle

Tithe: a Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

Thirsty by M. T. Anderson

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels by Henry James

Vampire High by Douglas Rees

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Witch Child by Celia Rees