Bag of Bones
A grieving writer retreats to an isolated lake house, where writer’s block and delusions make solitude frightening.
The directory
Books from the 1990s
Horror on the page: what each book is, who wrote it and how scary it gets.
Cold Fire
Cold Fire is a 1991 horror novel by Dean Koontz.
Desperation
Stephen King's 1996 horror novel, twinned with a mirror story where the same people live very different fates.
Gerald's Game
A woman is trapped, handcuffed to a bed, after her husband dies beside her.
Hearts in Atlantis
Five connected novellas and stories by Stephen King, following shared characters across the years, rooted in the nineteen sixties.
Insomnia
A widower's sleepless nights open his eyes to auras, and to a war fought for the fate of one small life.
Intensity
A college student fights to survive a serial killer in Dean Koontz’s tense horror novel.
Jurassic Park
A dinosaur park built through genetic engineering loses control in Michael Crichton's cautionary tale.
Needful Things
A new shop in Castle Rock offers people the things they want, if they will do a strange favour for its owner.
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 Great and Secret Show
Clive Barker’s fantasy horror novel begins the Book of the Art sequence, with Everville following it.
The Thief of Always
A boy enters a magical house whose master draws children in to steal their youth and keep himself alive.
Ticktock
Ticktock begins as horror, then turns towards comedy as Tommy Phan wrestles with family roots and his wish to be American.