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Spine-tingling Reads

A list for horror fans. Stories that will keep you up at night. With the lights on.

Belleville Public Library

21 items

  • “Lone Women is a searing and unsettling mixture of historical detail, Western imagery, and terrifying twists and turns, from an author who continues to reinvent horror with every page.”—CrimeReads
    BookNew York : One World, [2023] — FICLaVa
  • A fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.
    BookNew York : Del Rey, 2023. — FIC MOR
  • Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western.
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2023] — FICCana
  • Bad Cree

    a Novel = Ācimoin

    Johns, Jessica
    "Bad Cree is a masterwork of creeping tension. Wry, moody and subversive, Johns explores the power of connections, both the harm and the healing, with characters rich and warm, tangled in each other, to the land and to the supernatural.…
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., 2023. — FIC JOH
  • “Hendrix is a contemporary horror master, and the combination of profound storytelling and unapologetic, campy gore he delivers here will surely have horror fans reading with a gleeful smile on their faces.” —NPR
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2023] — FICHend
  • “In this skin-crawling story of pop culture fandom and ’90s nostalgia, Kiersten White fully delivers on her gripping premise: the troubled reunion, thirty years later, of the cast of a magical kids’ show that exists only in its viewers’…
    BookNew York : Del Rey, [2023] — FICWhit
  • When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any…
    BookNew York : Saga Press, 2023. — FIC CUT
  • "Brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable, My Heart Is a Chainsaw is a visceral ride from start to finish. A bloody love letter to slasher fans, it's everything I never knew I needed in a horror novel."—Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker…
    eBookS&S/Saga Press, 2023
  • A House with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic.
    eBookBloomsbury Publishing, 2023
  • “The Only Good Indians is scary good. Stephen Graham Jones is one of our most talented and prolific living writers. The book is full of humor and bone chilling images. It’s got love and revenge, blood and basketball. More than I could have…
    BookNew York : Saga Press, [2020] — FICJone
  • In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface, feeding off the past
    eBookECW Press, 2023
  • “This creepy, fast-paced read brings a fresh voice to horror…. Fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, and V Castro will devour this bloody tale of vengeful spirits and the dark legacy of colonialism.” —Booklist
    eAudiobookOrangeSky Audio, 2023
  • “A powerful story about motherhood, trauma, love, and the ways that myths can and should be rewritten . . . If you’re a horror fan and you haven’t picked up V. Castro, you need to fix that.”—Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors
    eBookRandom House Worlds, 2023
  • “Wickedly witty and intensely scary, A House With Good Bones is a thoroughly modern take on the Southern Gothic, about thorny family secrets that refuse to stay buried. You'll be feverishly turning the pages, so engrossed you won't notice…
    BookNew York : Nightfire/Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — FICKing
  • "The novel is horrific, yes, but fascinatingly provocative (and Orwellian) in the way it exposes the lengths society will go to deform language and avoid moral truths." —Taylor Antrim, Vogue
    eBookScribner, 2020
  • "Ward's books are each potent, dark, immersive, and surprising. Looking Glass Sound is a frightening nesting doll of a novel about ghosts and monsters, trauma and loss, and the specific aching intensity of teenage friendships. Perhaps most…
    Book: Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, 2023
  • "Nesbø doesn’t spend any time fiddling about, building up, or misdirecting. In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there. There are lessons to be learned here: who to believe and what to believe…
    Book: Random House of Canada, 2023
  • “This ghost story is a perfect example of new wave horror that will also satisfy fans of classic Stephen King.” —Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2022. — FICWurt
  • Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
    Book: Scribner, 2023
  • "A tech mogul gifts his ex-wife their perfect vacation home on a remote island. You'd think this is a dream come true--but this is a Kelley Armstrong story! With creepy twists on every page and a unique horror element, it's got an ending…
    Book: St. Martin's Press, 2023