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Spooky Reads: Librarian Recommended Horror

I don’t know about you, but Halloween has always been my favorite holiday.  I love all things creepy and Halloween gives me the excuse to indulge in my guilty pleasure.  As a young adult I reveled in Stephen King; Salem’s Lot, Carrie, Pet Cemetary, Needful Things (I really need to revisit those). As I got older, I continued to love horror, but expanded my reading beyond King.  One of my current favorites is Stephen King’ son, Joe Hill, who wrote Horns (which was made into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe), NOS4A2 (which was made into a television series), The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, Full-Throttle, Strange Weather, The Black Phone, and the YA Graphic Novel series, Locke & Key (which was made into a television series), and due out this month, King Sorrow.  I also love the Fantasy Horror novels of T. Kingfisher, Peter Straub (just thinking about Ghost Story gives me the shivers), William Blatty (of Exorcist fame) and Anne Rice. If I could recommend one title to you though, it would be Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt.  Rarely have I been afraid to sleep at night like I did when reading this one.  The setting is a small town in the Hudson Valley of New York that is being haunted by a seventeenth century witch who appears with her eyes and mouth sewn shut.  The town elders have the town on lock down to prevent the curse from spreading.  What happens when a group of teens go viral with the haunting is both dark and downright terrifying.  Read it – but keep the lights on.  You’ve been warned.

This month, instead of bringing you a guest librarian, I decided to ask the staff for their favorite horror novels to recommend to you.  Here they are.  Check them out… if you dare.

Happy Reading!

Nanci M. Hill,
Library Director

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