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~ 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)

Willam Peter Blatty – The Exorcist (Demonic Possession)

Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights (Gothic Romance)

Robin Cook – Coma, Mutation, etc. (Medical horror)

Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park (Monsters)

Robertson Davies – What’s 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)

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 – Rosemary’s Baby (Demonic Possession)

H.P. Lovecraft – The Dunwich Horror (Horror stories)

Robert McCammon – Mine (Psycholgical horror)

Barbara Michaels – Prince of Darkness (Occultism)

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)

Whitley Strieber – Unholy Fire, Wolfen (Demonic Possesion, werewolves)

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 3/14/2005

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