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It is officially spooky season: the leaves are falling, the days are getting shorter, and there's a chill in the air that feels like more than just the weather. Why not set the mood with some of the best horror writing the library has to offer? These award-winning tales will provide just the right amount of atmosphere, mystery, and occasional nightmare fuel to put you in the Halloween spirit all month long.

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  • "The Only Good Indians" follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture…
    BookNew York : Saga Press, [2020] — FICTION JONES
  • A young woman is determined to investigate an ancestral curse and generations of mysterious deaths in a brooding and ghostly British mansion. (British Fantasy Award)
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2017] — FICTION WARD
  • A socialite in 1950s Mexico follows her cousin into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion, where the walls seem to move on their own, and the family within hide sinister intentions. (Locus Award, Aurora Award)
    BookNew York : Del Rey, [2020] — SCIENCE FICTION MORENOGARCIA
  • Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, a grieving widower returns to his former Maine getaway only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly…
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2008 — FICTION KING
  • A man learns that his wife has been killed in an accident days before his release from prison. On the plane ride back home for the funeral, he meets Mr. Wednesday, who offers him a job—one far more dangerous than he could ever have…
    BookNew York : William Morrow, 2013, c2011 — SCIENCE FICTION GAIMAN
  • A family vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake face a home invasion by four strangers carrying menacing but unidentifiable objects who claim to be acting to save the world. (Bram Stoker Award, Locus Award)
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — FICTION TREMBLAY
  • When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — FICTION HILL
  • Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion. From early on, their stay is rife with spooky encounters, inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to…
    BookNew York : Penguin Books, 2013 — FICTION JACKSON
  • Louise's parents have passed away, and she's returning to the small Southern town where she grew up to get their house ready to sell. It means she'll have to spend time with her younger brother, and their old grudges make that a terrifying…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2023] — FICTION HENDRIX
  • Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead, the walls are a…
    BookNew York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2023 — FICTION KINGFISHER
  • In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2022] — FICTION CANAS
  • Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes. Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family…
    BookNew York : Dutton, [2020] — FICTION SAGER