Nightmare Fuel: 30 Terrifying Books to Read This October
These frightening books will haunt your dreams.
By
Matthew Thompson & Audrey Webster | Updated Oct 25, 2021 | Published Oct 23, 2018
Nothing but Blackened Teeth
By Cassandra Kham
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Kill Creek
By Scott Thomas
White is for Witching
By Helen Oyeyemi
A Head Full of Ghosts
By Paul Tremblay
A Collapse of Horses
By Brian Evenson
Mutilation Song
By Jason Hrivnak
Black Light
By Elizabeth Hand
The Loveliest Dead
By Ray Garton
Mad Madame LaLaurie
By Victoria Cosner Love and Lorelei Shannon
The Maddening
By Andrew Neiderman
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Blue World
By Robert R. McCammon
Camp Pleasant
By Richard Matheson
The Witch of Delray
By Karen Dybis
The Shapeshifters
By Stefan Spjut
Maynard's House
By Herman Raucher
Ghosts of Salem
By Sam Baltrusis
Experimental Film
By Gemma Files
Community
By Graham Masterton
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Private Demons
By Robert Masello
3 Gates of the Dead
By Jonathan Ryan
A Face at the Window
By Dennis Mcfarland
After Silence
By Jonathan Carroll
There’s Someone Inside Your House
By Stephanie Perkins
The Grip of It
By Jac Jemc
Heart-Shaped Box
By Joe Hill
Let the Right One In
By John Ajvide Lindqvist
Beneath the Willow
By Gemma Farrow