Halloween is nearly upon us. Are you looking for a spooky read? Why not check out some of our suggestions...but if you can't sleep for fear the monsters will get you, don't come crying to us!
There are some authors you just associate with horror immediately. My first thought would be James Herbert, Dean Koontz or Stephen King. I read James Herbert books when I was way too young for them and they scared me silly! My big brother had decided my education was lacking and gave them to me to read, my parents had no idea what horrors those books contained!
In the same vein of authors you immediately associate with horror, my husband suggested Anne Rice and my son suggested Darren Shan. A young adult book I read recently was The Enemy by Charlie Higson - it terrified me, but my son has gone on to scare himself silly with the follow up books!
Then there are the books which are considered to be classics of the horror genre - Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) and, of course, anything by Edgar Allen Poe. Almost classics would include Amityville Horror (Jay Anson) and The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty).
Some of the scariest books of all time have already been mentioned, but here are a few more to keep you shivering!...
Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby
Henry James - Turn of the Screw
Shirley Jackson - Haunting of Hill House
Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho
THomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs
Peter Straub - Ghost Story
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
H.P. Lovecraft - The Road to Madness
Chuck Plahnuik - Haunted
Richard Matheson - Hell House
Clive Barker - Books of Blood
We hope you enjoy reading these books...well maybe not "enjoy"! We have lots of very scary books in Havering libraries - so why not grab one from there....before one grabs you!!!
