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Horror Book to Keep You Up at Night
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items Books that will have you reading with the lights on! These picks are perfect for those of us who love a creepy book. Just in time to pick up for Halloween, but perfect to read anytime you need a good scare
Rachel Harrison is an auto-buy for me. Don’t let the sweet pink covers fool you, her books will unsettle you. I loved The Return because it had that gothic horror element of something being “off” pretty early on, but you just can’t put your finger on...
The Return by Rachel Harrison: 9780593641675
You’ve probably seen the movie Bird Box, but don’t let that keep you from reading the book! The feeling of intensity and unnerving while I read this story is still unrivaled. I read it way past my bedtime because I couldn’t put it down!
Bird Box: A Novel - Malerman, Josh: Books
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This book SCARED me. I could only read it when my husband was home because I was scared “Other Mommy” was going to get me. 😅
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
This is the type of read where you can’t figure out if the horror is real or in the characters’ heads, which makes it even scarier. You’ll end up weighing the fear of the supernatural and the fear of mankind.
Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
Horror, but make it a little funny. The banter between the two main characters had me cackling. It’s a nice reprieve from the scarier elements of the story!
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
A woman hides under the stairs with her children as a vaguely familiar intruder stalks through the house looking for them. That’s literally how the book starts! You’ll be enthralled, and scared, from page one.
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
A curl up by the fire to stay warm kind of horror book. A mother and her two daughters live off the grid. When the mother disappears, the two girls search for clues and find out why they’ve been living in such isolation.
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
A perfect cover for a spin on the cursed film horror trope. This book has a creepy, off putting factor running through it that makes you unsure about what is psychosis and what is real.
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Renovating an old creepy house, former creepy residents popping by, a child that’s hiding… or missing?, a creepy basement. You name it, this book has it. It’s eerie, twisty, and, surprisingly, a debut novel!
We Used to Live Here: A Novel by Marcus Kliewer
Air BnB gone wrong! I loved the spooky, gothic feel of this book. It also touches on some very real scary feelings of feeling out of place in your family, loneliness, and pesky haunting.
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
I love that you never *quite* know what’s going on or who to trust in this book. Is it the end of the world? A war? A terrorist attack? Can the owners of the house this family have rented be trusted when they show up at the door looking for refuge fr...
Leave the World Behind: A Read with Jenna Pick
One night an entire suburban neighborhood turns into ghosts except three friends. After years of documentaries and inquests into what happened, the girls finally return to get answers.
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
The year is 1994. But like… forever. This island is obsessed with the 1994. A woman is led to the island by clues her son leaves after her death. It goes about as well as you would expect…
Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
I love Rachel Harrison and I extra love that a major plot twist happens pretty early on in Black Sheep!
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Why are we so obsessed with true crime? This novel, written in interviews for a true crime podcast, explores this question while also telling a harrowing “true crime” story. I knew it was a novel, but the format made it feel so real!
Kill Show: A True Crime Novel - Books
Think hide-and-seek, but deadly…
Hide by Kiersten White
After their father’s death, a woman and her brother have to sell a house that doesn’t quite want to be sold…
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
This is a YA book, but I still found it perfectly eerie and riveting! You’ll still want to leave the lights on at some parts.
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
Another one for fans of the haunted house trope! Eric Ross is on the run with his daughters for reasons unknown. He ends up at this house doing a job no one else wanted. Horror ensues.
The Spite House by Johnny Compton
I didn’t realize this was a movie! After reading the book, I’m not sure I could watch it… Broke with nowhere else to go, a young woman ends up renting a room in the worst possible place.
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill
This was my first horror graphic novel, but it won’t be my last! I can’t wait to get my hands on the rest of the series. The illustrations add a whole new level of creepy to the story.
Something is Killing the Children
Another one they turned into a movie! This book will have you questioning who you should believe as the characters start to questions themselves and each other.
The Cabin at the End of the World: Novel