~ HORROR FICTION ~
A SELECTION OF POPULAR HORROR NOVELS
available at Windsor Locks Public Library for your reading pleasure!
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
(Gothic romance)
Jessica Barone The Legendary
(Vampires)
Peter Benchley Jaws
(Man-eating shark)
Willam Peter Blatty The Exorcist
(Demonic possession)
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
(Gothic romance)
Max Brooks World War Z
(Demonic possession)
Robin Cook Coma, Mutation, etc.
(Medical horror)
Michael Crichton Jurassic Park
(Monsters)
Robertson Davies Whats Bred in the
Bone (Supernatural)
Daphne Du Maurier Echoes from the
Macabre (Horror stories)
Laurell K. Hamilton - Anita Blake series
(Comic horror, detection)
Thomas Harris Silence of the Lambs
(Psychological horror, serial killer)
Joe Hill The Heart Shaped Box
(Demonic possession)
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
(Ghost stories)
Stephen King various works
(Apocolyptic, dark fantasy,
haunted houses)
Dean R. Koontz Watchers, Strangers
(Monsters, mind control)
Ira Levin Rosemarys Baby
(Demonic possession)
H.P. Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror
(Horror stories)
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
(Post apocalypse, vampires)
Robert McCammon Mine
(Psychological horror)
Edgar Allan Poe various stories
(Psychological horror)
Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat
(Vampires)
John Saul Creature, God Project
(Medical horror)
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
(Gothic romance, monsters)
Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde (monsters)
Bram Stoker Dracula
(Vampire, gothic romance)
Peter Straub various works
(Demonic Possession)
Whitley Strieber Unholy Fire, Wolfen
(Demonic possesion, werewolves)
Thomas Tryon Harvest Home, The Other
(Psychological horror)
John Updike Witches of Eastwick
(Witchcraft)
H.G.Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau
(Monsters)
Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian Grey
(Supernatural phenomena)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Tempting Fate
(Vampires)
(Subgenres suggested by Terri Lyons, SUNY Buffalo)
Updated 10-11-2011
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