Banks, L.A. Undead on Arrival: A Crimson City Novel.
Urban Fantasy.

Barbeau, Adrienne & Michael Scott. Vampyres of Hollywood.
Fang-in-cheek humor

Baker, Nancy. The Night Inside: A Vampire Thriller.

Barker, Clive. Great and Secret Show.
One of the greats in horror–the very best in short story form.

Barlow, Toby. Sharp Teeth.
An ancient race of lycanthropes have survived to the present day.

Beagle, Peter. A Fine and Private Place.

Bierce, Ambrose. Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce.

Black, Campbell. Letters From the Dead.

Blatty, William Peter. The Exorcist.

Borchardt, Alice. Silver Wolf.
Followed by Night of the Wolf and The Wolf King.

Boyd, Donna. The Promise and The Passion.
Werewolves at their attractive best.

Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Brite, Poppy Z. Exquisite Corpse.

Brooks, Max. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

Burley, W.J. Wycliffe and the Scapegoat.
Mystery

Butler, Octavia. Fledgling.
Vampire horror

Cadnum, Michael. Horses of the Night.

Campbell, Ramsey, almost anything–short stories and novels.
Grin of the Dark (2008)

Carrington, Tori. Working Stiff: A Sofie Metropolis Novel
Sofie’s latest adventure takes place just before Halloween

Clark, Francis. Waking Brigid
Horror in late 1800s Georgia

Collins, Nancy A., excellent short horror stories, and check out the Sonja Blue vampire series.

Condé, Nicholas. In the Deep Woods.

Coyne, John. Hobgoblin.

Crawford, Isis. A Catered Halloween: A Mystery with Recipes.

De Felitta, Frank. Audrey Rose & The Entity.

Drake, Shannon. The Awakening..
Horror in Salem, MA with a Romance theme.

Due, Tananarive..

Elrod, P.N.My Big, Fat, Supernatural Wedding
My Big, Fat, Supernatural Honeymoon.
Short Stories

Eskine, Barbara. House of Echoes.
Romance with vampires.

Farris, John. You Don’t Scare Me.

Ferris, Monica. Blackwork.
Needlecraft Mystery; bk.13

Freedman, Dave. Natural Selection.
Monsters in CA

Freydont, Shelley. Halloween Murder: A Lindy Haggerty Mystery.

Frost, Mark. List of 7.
Arthur Conan Doyle supernatural Mystery series.

Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere.
Helping a young woman who lies dirty and bleeding in the street leads the main character into London Below–the long-forgotten parts of historic London–a place so overrun with monsters that it is terrifying (Novelist, 10/2/02).

Ghost Stories. Everyman’s Library edition includes Robert Louis Stevenson, Ray Bradbury and Edith Wharton among many others.

Goshgarian, Gary. The Stone Circle.
Review.

Haines, Carolyn. Hallowed Bones.
Southern ghost story mystery.

Halloween Horrors.

Hambly, Barbara. Those Who Hunt the Night.
Vampires, of course.
Renfield: Slave of Dracula.

Hamilton, Laurell K. Guilty Pleasures.
First in a series of mystery, romance & suspense combined with vampires & the occult. For a review please, click here.

Harris, Thomas.
His Hannibal Lector series is one of the scariest trilogies in existence.

Hart, Carolyn G.
Ghost at Work: A Ruth Bailey Mystery

Harwood, John. The Ghost Writer.
Ghost story.

Horror Writers’ Association Presents Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories.

Hubbard, Susan. The Society of S.
Year of Disappearances
Different take on Vampires & coming of age

Hunt, Lee. The Vampire of New York.
Archaeologist Carrie Norton & Detective Max Slattery uncover the undead

Jackson, Shirley. Haunting of Hill House.
Mystery.

James, M. R.
Casting the runes.
Classic Ghost Stories.

Keene, Brian. The Rising.
Urban Gothic.
Great Zombie action.

Kenyon, Nate. Bloodstone.
New England horror tales

Kenyon, Sherrilyn..
Dark-Hunter Vampire tales of love and terror.

Kilborn, Jack. Afraid.

King, Stephen.
There is good reason for this prolific writer’s reputation. Start with
Carrie, if you don’t believe!

King, Tabitha. Candles Burning.
Psychics

Matheson, Richard specializes in ordinary people caught up in terrifying situations. Try his short stories in The Box.

McBain, Ed. Tricks: An 87th Precinct Novel.
Police procedural.

McCammon, Robert R. Boy’s Life.
A twelve-year-old’s father finds a dead man handcuffed to a car’s steering wheel that has plunged into Zephyr’s Lake in 1964, and they realize that all is not as it seems in their quiet town.

McGrath, Patrick, start with The Grotesque but try them all.

McKevett, G.A. Poisoned Tarts: A Savannah Reid Mystery.

Michaels, Barbara. Prince of Darkness.
Mystery.

Moore, Christopher. Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck.

Murphy, C.E. Walking Dead.
Urban Fantasy. Walker Papers; bk.4

Nasaw, Jonathan Lewis. The World on Blood.
Mystery.

Nicholson, Scott. The Farm.

Oates, Joyce Carol. (AKA Rosamund Smith) As Oates look for Zombie amd Bellefleur among others to chill you.

On a Raven’s Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allen Poe. ed. Stuart M. Kaminsky.

O’Nan, Stewart. The Night Country, or, the Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Modern New England Ghost story.

Pekearo, Nicholas. The Wolfman. (2009)

Perreti, Frank E. & Ted Dekker. House.
Haunted House

Piccirilli, Tom. Dead Letters.
Serial Killers

Pickard, Nancy. Twilight.
Mystery.

Poe, Edgar Allan.
Tales of Poe is a nice beginning.

Priest, Christopher. The Prestige.
Excellent movie too, Obsessive Magicians

Rice, Anne.
Interview With the Vampire is just the beginning of a repertoire of solidly sensual and thrilling vampire and witch tales (The Witching Hour).

Roberts, Gillian. Hole in Juan: An Amanda Pepper Mystery.

Saul, John.
The Guardian is one of his classics.

Simmons, Dan. Carrion Comfort. Vampires.
The Terror.

Simon, Leonard. Dissociated States.

Sokoloff,Alexandra. The Harrowing.
Ghost Story

Small, Bertrice. Moment in Time.
Romantic witchcraft.

Smith, Rosamond. AKA Joyce Carol Oates. Soul/Mate.

Spruill, Steven G.Rulers of Darkness is the first in a nicely done vampire series.

Stein, Jeanne C. The Becoming: Anna Strong Chronicles; bk.1
Vampire Hunter
Blood Drive; bk.2

Stoker, Bram. Dracula.

Straub, Peter. Ghost Story is a great place to start, or Magic Terror for short stories that will curl your hair.

Streiber, Whitley. Billy.

Swanson, Denise. Murder of a Royal Pain
Scumble River Mystery

Troop, Alan F. Dragon DelaSangre.
Blood-curdling fear will rivet you to the page. The DelaSangres are dragons capable of taking human form and must feed on humans to survive. Then second in the series is Dragon Moon.

Tryon, Thomas. Night Magic.

Van Thal, Herbert. Great Ghost Stories.
Short, spooky stories.

Waters, Sarah. The Little Stranger.
British Ghost Story

Wellington, David. Monster Island, #1
Monster nation #2
Monster planet #3
Trilogy of zombies overrunning NYC.

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn.
Count Saint-Germaine’s vampire makes Lestat look uncouth!

Zampano. Mark Z. Danielwski’s House of Leaves.

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