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Scares for Every Season of the Year: A curated list of Horror Books
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items For those perpetually longing for spooky scaries. This list will get you through the entire year.
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One of my all time favorites. Set during a blizzard.
A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do?
On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard...
(Winter) No Exit: A Novel by Taylor Adams
Features a family snowed in and the father slowly unraveling into madness.
(Winter) The Shining by Stephen King
One of the scariest books I’ve ever read.
A chilling vampire story set in the cold, dark Swedish winter.
(Winter) Let the Right One In: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
One Christmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, struggling songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a strange spectacle: seven devilish figures chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. When the reindeer leap skywar...
(Winter/Christmas) Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom
Set in a Scandinavian forest during a hiking trip that begins in spring, featuring pagan horror.
(Spring) The Ritual: A Novel by Adam Nevill
Title Pick. I mean, First Day of Spring.
Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates are tearful and their mothers are terrified, keeping them locked indoors. But C...
(Spring) The First Day of Spring: A Novel by Nancy Tucker
Even though the season is vague, The rich descriptions of the grounds of the estate definitely give spring.
This novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.
(Spring) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
It’s not summer without a slasher. This one also has a fun whodunnit aspect to it.
Set in the sweltering heat of summer.
Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is th...
(Summer) Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone...
(Summer) It: A Novel by Stephen King
Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and make...
(Fall/Halloween) Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Set on Halloween Night and told from a child’s point of view.
In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated kids, he plans to hi...
(Fall/Halloween) Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) - Kraus, Daniel