It’s that time of year again: Spooktober. Since trick or treating is no longer an option this Halloween, perhaps you should get your scares at home. From short novellas to longer epics, here are the best scary stories for you to read this Halloween!
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Short Stories
- Horror Lives in the Body – Meg Pillow Davis
- If My Mother Was the Final Girl – Michelle Ross
- The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
- His Beautiful Hands – Oscar Cook
- The Little Girl Eater – MS Waddel
Novellas
- August Heat – WF Harvey
- The Phantom Coach – Amelia B Edwards
- The Balance – Kev Harrison
- The Girl on the Porch – Richard Chizmar
- Shadow Vista – Mark Steensland & Charles Colyott
Novels
- House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
- Ring – Kōji Suzuki
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- Pet Semetary – Stephen King
- The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
Epics
- IT – Stephen King
- The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
- Swan Song – Robert R. McCammon
- Night Life – Ray Garton
- The Sentinel – Jeffrey Konvitz
Book Series
- The Shining – Stephen King
- Infected – Scott Sigler
- The Curse of Allie Mae – Aiden James
- Sunvale – Jonathan Staten
- Mr Mercedes – Stephen King