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A Book That Scares You Read More Reading Challenge 2018 |
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Bedbugs
by Ben H. Winters
After Susan and Alex Wendt find their dream apartment, Susan wakes up with small welts believing it to be bedbugs until an exterminator turns up nothing and further investigation points towards something sinister.
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The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly
Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.
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The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill
A classic ghost story set in a small English community follows the experiences of an up-and-coming solicitor who while endeavoring to settle a deceased client's affairs is haunted by bizarre phenomena before he is approached by a ghostly figure.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
A chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
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It
by Stephen King
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
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Feed
by M. T. Anderson
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, Titus meets Violet, an unusual teenage girl who is in serious trouble.
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Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries
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The Motion of Puppets
by Keith Donohue
An adaptation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth follows the experiences of a Quebec translator whose acrobat wife takes shelter in a mysterious toy shop, only to be turned into a puppet and placed in a magical circle of similarly transformed puppets who come to life at night and struggle to regain human form. By the author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters.
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Slade House
by David Mitchell
Follows the narrative of five different people who disappear through a mysterious door in an unassuming alleyway to visit the titular house and also vanish completely from the outside world.
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
"Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical--and visionary--American writer"
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