Embrace your inner ghost with this collection of haunting tales. Fasten your sheetbelts, it’s time for a spooky read!
Compiled by:
Julie K. and Zofia S.
Fiction
(Adult Fiction - Morriso)
While Sethe may have escaped enslavement to Ohio, she is still not free. She works at "beating back the past," but it's alive in all of them. Sethe's struggle to keep the past from gaining full possession of her present is at the center of this profoundly affecting and startling novel.
(Adult Fiction - Castro)
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel.
(Adult Fiction - Jackson)
This is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly place called Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
(Adult Fiction - Hand)
The first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Holly and Nisa agree to rent Hill House for a month when Holly, a struggling playwright, is immediately taken in by the mansion. Yet as they settle in, the house’s peculiarities are made known and all too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself.
(Adult Fiction - Hendrix)
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. But childhood hurts pale in comparison to the dangers posed by what still lives inside the house.
(Adult Fiction - Never)
There is a widely-held belief among many Indigenous people that one should never whistle at night—it can cause evil spirits to appear and even follow you home. Over 25 tales, bestselling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge.
(Adult Fiction - Bardugo)
Enter a mesmerizing world of power, privilege, and dark magic among the Ivy League elite in the first book of the Alex Stern series.
(Adult Fiction - Khaw)
A group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back together to celebrate a wedding, find their night of food, drinks, and games quickly spiraling into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested. But the house has secrets, too.
(Adult Fiction - Mcquist)
Cynical 23-year-old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. But when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one—namely, displaced in time from the 1970s—she thinks it might be time to start believing.
(Adult Fiction - Due)
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that's a chamber of terrors—where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice for both the living and the dead.
(Adult Fiction - Davidso)
The summer Jake turns 12, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and his Uncle Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined.
(Adult Fiction - King)
Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel's dark secrets begin to unravel, and his son Danny is the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around.
(Adult Fiction - Russell)
12-year-old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wrestling. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that's inexorably sinking.
(Adult Fiction - Twice)
In this follow-up to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology, you'll unearth curses old and new. From a very different take on Snow White, to a new interpretation of The Red Shoes, the best in fantasy spin straw into gold, and invite you into the labyrinth.
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Klune)
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death, he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
(Adult Fiction - Kuang)
When June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse; she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece. So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? But June is haunted by Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her.
Nonfiction
(Adult Nonfiction - 133.1097 Deu)
Ghost stories from the Hoosier State have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery. Pulled right from history, these ghostly tales will change the way you see Bloomington forever, and have you sleeping with the lights on!
(Adult Nonfiction - 133.1 Wil)
Wanda Lou Willis takes readers on a frightening journey across Indiana, exploring haunted houses, rivers, and other locations. Supplemented with excellent original maps, photos, and illustrations, Haunted Hoosier Trails is a collection of spooky tales and real-life horror stories that doubles as a Halloween travel guide.
(Adult Nonfiction - 800.92 Machado Mac)
The author presents an engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado is haunted by what happened to her and how that shaped the person she was becoming.
(Adult Nonfiction - 133.1 Bru)
Otherworldly entities invade millions of lives every day, maybe even yours. In this book, Tony and Jenny Brueski from Real Ghost Stories Online share the most haunting accounts from their podcast, including messages from returned relatives, jealous demons and protective spirits, and haunted buildings and breweries.