Staff Picks: Books for Chills and Thrills

Staff members have listed their favorite hair-raising novels plus we've added some new guaranteed-to-terrify-you titles. Some of the books on this list have ghosts or the undead to vanquish but others have evil humans for our protagonists to defeat.  These books are sure to keep you at the edge of your seat.


updated October 2023






The Children On The Hill

by Jennifer Mcmahon




Creatures of Passage

by Morowa Yejide


The Dancing Floor

by Barbara Michaels














The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson




How to Sell a Haunted House

by Grady Hendrix


I Am Legend

by Richard Matheson


In The Clearing

by J. P. Pomare


Interview With The Vampire

by Anne Rice




It Will Just Be Us

by Jo Kaplan


Just Like Home

by Sarah Gailey


The Lingering

by S J I Holliday




Mouthful of Birds

by Samanta Schweblin


Natural Beauty

by Ling Ling Huange




The Resting Place

by Camilla Sten




Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury


The Tell Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe


The Turn Of The Screw

by Henry James


The Violence

by Delilah Dawson


The Woman in Black

by Susan Hill