Do you want a book to scare the hell out of you? Are you looking for really scary books to creep you out?
These 6 novels will do just that. These are the best books for Halloween to scare you and your friends.
Halloween Scary Books List: 6 Most Frightening Novels Of All Time
1. House of Leaves –
Johnny Truant, a tattoo parlor employee, has come into possession of a trunk full of bizarre scraps of paper once owned by an old blind man, Zampano who is now dead. The papers comprise of an exploration of a cult film called “The Navidson Record” and its sub-films, documentaries about an ever-expanding house that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside and which consumes the lives of anyone who enters its dark hallways or watches the tapes.
2. The Shining – Stephen King
The Shining remains a visceral, gripping read that showcases Stephen King’s powers to hypnotize and terrify readers.
3. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House remains one of the most important horror novels of all time and certainly one of the most singular haunted house tales ever written. It is certainly worth mentioning that at no time do we or the characters actually see any sort of visible ghostly manifestation; the phenomena are limited to cold spots, spectral banging on the walls and doors, messages written on walls, and torn, blood-spewed clothing in one room.
4. The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
This is a haunting and frightening story about how one’s childhood desires and expectations never truly diminish, in fact if left unchecked, they can grow to such a horrifying proportion that they take on a life and soul of their own.
5. Hell House – Richard Matheson
“Hell House” is a book with enough twists and turns to satisfy, and enough really scary, disgusting stuff to possibly haunt your dreams.
6. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Set in the post-apocalyptic hell of an unending nuclear winter, Cormac McCarthy writes about a nameless man and his young son, wandering through a world gone crazy; bleak, cold, dark, where the snow falls down gray; moving south toward the coast, looking somewhere, anywhere, for life and warmth.
