Slashers, haunted houses, vampires, witches, ghosts, trick or treat gone wrong… get the perfect Halloween book recommendation now in this spooky reading list with thrillers and horror books.
18 Halloween books to read
Where the Dead Brides Gather by Nuzo Onoh
Bata, a young girl with nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin's door as a ghost-bride attempts to murder the groom-to-be. Following a botched exorcism, she is transported to Ibaja-La, the realm of dead brides, where she receives powers to fight malevolent ghost-brides before being sent back to the human realm.
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William by Mason Coile
Henry, a brilliant but agoraphobic engineer, secretly creates an AI consciousness he calls William in his home lab. But when his pregnant wife Lily's coworkers visit their smart home, things quickly spiral from strange to much worse, as the security upgrades meant to keep danger out prove even better at locking it in.
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What We Sacrifice for Magic by Andrea Jo DeWerd
It's 1968, and eldest daughter Elisabeth is expected to hone her supernatural abilities to take over for her indomitable grandmother Madga and marry her high school sweetheart. But the more she digs into her family's secrets, the less she trusts the grandmother she thought she knew.
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The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd
Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau travels to a remote tropical island to find her father only to discover he has been experimenting on animals so that they resemble, speak, and behave as humans. One of the creatures has turned violent and is killing the island's inhabitants.
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The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Dare, a podcaster, arrives at Arrington Estate to investigate the suspicious drowning death of teenager Atheleen Bell thirty years ago but the estate is full of surprises, including Quinn, the daughter of the house's new owner, and baffling threats like ghostly apparitions and an unnatural current that nearly drowns their friend Holly.
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Splasher by Billie Host
Spencer Ward's new job as assistant swim coach at Richardson University is derailed when two students are found dead in the pool on the first day of training. Overcome with an ominous sense of déjà vu, Spencer and his swim team must work out what is hunting them before it's too late.
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Our Wicked Histories by Amy Goldsmith
Meg is invited to spend Halloween weekend at the ancestral Irish estate of the wealthy Wren twins. It’s her last chance to save her spot at Greyscott's, the exclusive art school she attended on scholarship. But Wren Hall is damp and drafty, surrounded by a weed-choked lake at the center of dark legends the estate seems unable to shake
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House of Rayne by Harley Laroux
A gothic sapphic romance set on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, where Salem,stranded after a broken engagement, is drawn to the mysterious Rayne and her secretive manor. When a gruesome murder exposes the island's sinister supernatural nature, the two women must unravel the secrets of Rayne's haunted past to survive the evil that hunts them.
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Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands after a vivid dream, she knows something is deeply wrong. Night after night her dreams return her to the weekend before her sister Sabrina's untimely death, and when the waking world starts closing in too, she travels north to her rural Alberta hometown to uncover what really happened that night at the lake.
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Blood Countess by Lana Popović
In 1585 Hungary, Anna Darvulia falls into devoted service to the legendary Countess Erzebet Báthory, only to find herself drawn ever deeper into a web of opulence, dark magic, and unspeakable cruelty.
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Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina
When Shawna returns to her Louisiana reservation to care for her missing brother Lony's daughter, she uncovers a supernatural force connected to the land's history and must confront a darkness that has long preyed upon her community.
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A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
A collection of stories in which the ordinary world meets something sinister, exploring obsession, violence, and the shadows lurking beneath everyday life.
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Until the Heart Stops by Cillian Eliza West
A gothic vampire romance set in the city of Oylen, where Lilith Searah runs an illegal blood den and attracts the attention of an immortal.
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The Lingering by S.J.I. Holliday
Jack and Ali move to Rosalind House, but as the house's unsettling past closes in on them, they begin to suspect that some of its former residents may never have truly left.
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Death Valley by Karina Halle
When Indie heads to Death Valley on a road trip with her ex-boyfriend Kessler, strange occurrences begin to suggest that something in the desert is watching them and that not everything is in her head.
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Hollow Secrets: A Sleepy Hollow Reimagining by Tamsin St. James
A gothic and erotic thriller that retells Washington Irving's classic tale from the perspective of Katrina Van Tassel, positioning her not as a romantic prize but as the central figure in a love triangle.
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A Dreadful Splendor by B.R. Myers
In Victorian London, fake spiritualist Genevieve Timmons is sprung from jail by the surly lord Mr. Pemberton, who enlists her to stage a theatrical haunting at his manor to draw out a confession for his fiancée's murder. But as frightful incidents multiply, Genevieve begins to wonder if the ghost she's conjuring might be real.
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John Eyre by Mimi Matthews
In 1843 Yorkshire, disgraced schoolmaster John Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to tutor two peculiar boys for the alluring widow Mrs. Rochester while heiress Bertha Mason's letters reveal her own terrifying realization that her late husband Edward Rochester may not have been a man at all.
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