Halloween is the favorite time of the year for a large majority of thriller and suspense readers as there’s nothing more fun than reading a high quality creepy story in the dim glow of a bedside lamp, tucked away nicely from the fall evening chill.
Who knows? Maybe reading a good story gives you some fresh ideas about your next Halloween look so that you don’t have to look for inspirations in the fashion world and likes of Heidi Klum (see her Greatest Halloween Costumes here as a reference).
Anyways, we think you will enjoy reading these creepy books along with a nice glass of wine and your favorite snack:
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 young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit’s standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?
If you’re Detective Versado’s geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you’re desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you’re Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you’ll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe–and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world.
In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives.
But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever.
It’s full of devilish conspiracies and dirty evil spirits. The Amityville Horror is easily the bloodiest and spookiest horror story you can read on the eve of Halloween.
Prince Lestat is the 11th book in The Vampire Chronicles’ series and features the same kind of thrills and blood as seen in the earlier installments. It involves some of the old favorite characters of the series, including Louis de Pointe du Lac. Easily a kind of horror story that’ll keep you hooked till the late hours of the night and then give you a hard time sleeping!
A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, Horrorstör comes packaged in the form of a glossy mail order catalog, complete with product illustrations, a home delivery order form, and a map of Orsk’s labyrinthine showroom. It’s “a treat for fans of The Evil Dead or Zombieland, complete with affordable solutions for better living.”—Kirkus Reviews.
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker: Frank Cotton’s insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand’s box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother’s love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back—though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.
