31 Days of Halloween Reading

Halloween is my favorite holiday and October my favorite month, so I thought I’d compile a list of some of the scariest stories out there for my readers to enjoy this season. These shivery treats were compiled from my own favorites and recommendations from fellow lovers of ghosties and goblins. Scroll down past the images for links.

1. Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
2. This House is Haunted by John Boyne
3. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
4. Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs
5. The Changeling by Victor LaValle
6. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
7. Asylum by Madeleine Roux
8. The Terror by Dan Simmons
9. Jane Emily by Patricia Clapp
10. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
11. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft
12. Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
13. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
14. Took by Mary Downing Hahn
15. The Fireman by Joe Hill
16. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
17. Hell House by Richard Matheson
18. The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson (especially Room in the Tower)
19. Carmilla by J. Sheridan leFanu
20. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
21. Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
22. I am Legend by Richard Matheson
23. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
24. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
25. Psycho by Robert Bloch
26. It by Stephen King
27. The Death Chamber by Sarah Rayne
28. Tales of the Uncanny and the Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood
29. A Thin Ghost by M.R. James
30. The Shining by Stephen King
31. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

I hope you find something in this list that makes you shiver. Happy Halloween!