There’s still a week before Halloween! You’ve got plenty of time to finish these spooky reads that are less than 350 pages.
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson’s 1959 classic, has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at the notoriously unfriendly Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers–and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
“A terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” according to Kirkus Reviews, Mexican Gothic follows socialite Noem Taboada as she travels to a distant house in the Mexican countryside after receiving a letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her. There are many secrets behind the walls of High Place, and as Noem digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. Set in in glamorous 1950’s Mexico, Mexican Gothic is in development as a Hulu Limited Series.
There’s something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. When Miranda Silver brings a friend home after her mother passes away suddenly, Dover’s hostility toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house. At once an unforgettable mystery and a meditation on race, nationality, and family legacies, White is for Witching is a terrifying, and elegant novel by one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
Stephen King’s legendary debut about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates, Carrie is a surprisingly short and creepy read from the master of horror.
Dubbed “one of 2020’s buzziest horror novels” by Entertainment Weekly, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.