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Readers' Corner - Featured Genre
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October Country
Books to Freeze the
Marrow of your Bones

"The purpose of a horror novel is
essentially to frighten the reader.
How this is achieved does not
matter. It could be evil spirits,
abundant gore or unnatural
powers... "

-NoveList

Types of Horror


Ghosts and the Supernatural

  • Ghost Story, Peter Straub
  • Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill
  • The House Next Door, Anne Rivers Siddons
  • The Woman in Black, Susan Hill

Vampires

  • Children of the Night, Dan Simmons
  • Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler
  • Renfield, Barbara Hambly
  • Salem's Lot, Stephen King

Monsters of all kinds

  • Cell, Stephen King
  • Chasing the Dead, Joe Schreiber
  • Shadow Fires, Dean Koontz
  • Threshold, Caitlin R. Kiernan

The Occult

  • Midnight Voices, John Saul
  • Eleven Days, Donald Harstad
  • Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin
  • Sanctuary Hill, Kathryn R. Wall

Psychological

  • Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Darkest Part of the Woods, Ramsey Campbell
  • Julia, Peter Straub
  • Odd Hours, Dean Koontz
  • The Other, Thomas Tryon

Dystopia

  • Bloodtide, Melvin Burgess
  • The Children of Men, P.D. James
  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  • 1984, George Orwell
  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy

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Classics Through the Centuries


  • Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818)
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson (1886)
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898)
  • At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft (1936)
  • I am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954)
  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
  • Psycho by Robert Bloch (1959)
  • Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (1967)
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (1971)
  • Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976)
  • The Shining by Stephen King (1977)
  • The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (1986)
  • Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite (1992)

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