Looking for a good scare? From beloved classic horrors to bone-chilling contemporary fiction, check out our list of spooky reads that are sure to send shivers down your spine!

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Beth and Fran spend their days travelling the ravaged New England coast hunting feral men. Robbie lives by his gun and trusts no-one. After a brutal accident entwines them, this found family must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire and their own demons to survive.

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
In this sequel to The Shining, a now grown-up Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers to his from a murderous cult known as The True Knot, who prey on paranormal children to remain immortal.

Our wives under the sea by Julia Armfield
When Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe, it soon becomes clear that she may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever they were studying before being stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it home…

Let the right one in by John Ajvide Lindquist
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who moves in next door. Then a body is found hanging from a tree, and all hell breaks loose. Is it a serial killer? Or something a bit... different?

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
When the beautiful, yet corrupt, Dorian Gray wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity.

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