'Salem's Lot
A writer goes home to Jerusalem's Lot and finds the neighbours have started keeping very strange hours.
The directory
Books
Horror on the page: what each book is, who wrote it and how scary it gets.
Another
A new pupil meets a mysterious classmate, then finds his class caught up in a string of terrible deaths.
Bag of Bones
A grieving writer retreats to an isolated lake house, where writer’s block and delusions make solitude frightening.
Cabal
Cabal is a horror novella by Clive Barker, first published in a collection with more of his fiction.
Carrie
A telekinetic teenager's revenge after a cruel prom night prank turns Chamberlain, Maine into a nightmare.
Cell
A mysterious phone signal turns people violent, leaving an artist trying to find his young son.
Cold Fire
Cold Fire is a 1991 horror novel by Dean Koontz.
Dracula
A young solicitor's business trip abroad turns into something he never signed up for.
Dreamcatcher
Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher brings alien invasion and body horror together in a suspenseful novel.
Firestarter
Stephen King’s Firestarter follows a young girl who can start fires with her mind, and the agency that wants to use her power.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
A scientist stitches together a new kind of life, then can't face what he's made.
I Am Legend
A post-apocalyptic horror novel about a world overrun by a disease that turns people into something vampiric.
Intensity
A college student fights to survive a serial killer in Dean Koontz’s tense horror novel.
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice’s debut novel lets a vampire tell his life story to a reporter, with plenty of room for unease.
It
Seven children are hunted by a shapeshifting entity that wears a clown's smile to get close to them.
Jurassic Park
A dinosaur park built through genetic engineering loses control in Michael Crichton's cautionary tale.
Misery
A writer's biggest fan decides she isn't ready to let him leave.
Needful Things
A new shop in Castle Rock offers people the things they want, if they will do a strange favour for its owner.
Pet Sematary
A family settles near an old pet cemetery in the Maine woods, and learns what else lives there.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A London solicitor investigates his old friend, a respectable doctor, and the violent man who holds an unsettling grip over him.
Strangers
A Dean Koontz horror novel from 1986 that mixes horror with science fiction, for nights when you want your unease with a strange edge.
The Bad Place
A man loses every night to a blackout, and two private investigators uncover a frightening reason to fear what happens while he is gone.
The Black Cat
A drunken man turns on the pet cat he once loved, with terrible consequences.
The Call of Cthulhu
A short cosmic horror story that builds its dread through unease, not blood.
The Castle of Otranto
A haunted castle, medieval atmosphere and a feeling that the walls know something you do not.
The Dead Zone
A man wakes from a long coma with visions triggered by touch, while a killer and a rising politician enter his story.
The Great and Secret Show
Clive Barker’s fantasy horror novel begins the Book of the Art sequence, with Everville following it.
The Hellbound Heart
A criminal, a puzzle box and the Cenobites make Clive Barker’s horror novella a troubling choice for a quiet night.
The Institute
A kidnapped boy wakes in a facility for children with strange gifts, and the ones who run it want something from him.
The Metamorphosis
A salesman wakes with an insect's body, and his family must face the change with him.
The Outsider
A Stephen King novel that blends crime fiction with horror until the two stop behaving.
The Phantom of the Opera
A Gothic horror novel about a mysterious presence haunting the Paris Opera House.
The Queen of Spades
A Russian novella about a man drawn in by the promise of a card game secret that could make him rich.
The Shining
Stephen King's breakthrough horror novel, shaped by his own hotel stay and his fight with drink at the time.
The Stand
A weaponised flu empties the world, and the few left standing find themselves pulled towards one of two very different figures.
The Taking
The Taking is a 2004 horror novel by Dean Koontz, published by Bantam Books.
The Tell-Tale Heart
A calm, precise confession from a narrator killing an old man over nothing but the look of his eye.
The Thief of Always
A boy enters a magical house whose master draws children in to steal their youth and keep himself alive.
The Tommyknockers
A mysterious buried object begins to change a town in Stephen King’s unsettling science fiction horror novel.
Ticktock
Ticktock begins as horror, then turns towards comedy as Tommy Phan wrestles with family roots and his wish to be American.
Under the Dome
A small town is cut off by an invisible barrier, leaving its people to face the fear of being trapped together.
Watchers
A suspense novel that brings horror and science fiction together.