Books like Scary by Joaquin Ramon Herrera

Stephen King’s 1986 horror classic follows seven children terrorized by a shape‑changing entity that takes the form of the iconic clown Pennywise, using their deepest fears to hunt them.

A struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance takes over caretaking of the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, but a winter storm and the building’s malevolent past drive him toward madness, threatening his family's safety.

Stephen King’s 1983 horror classic, *Pet Sematary*, explores the perilous intersection of death, resurrection, and the dark forces that linger in rural Maine.

Shirley Jackson’s classic psychological horror, *The Haunting of Hill House*, follows a lonely woman drawn into an abandoned mansion whose malevolent presence ultimately consumes her.

Nothing, in all it's entirety.

A chilling tale of an eleven‑year‑old's demonic possession and the two priests who confront it.

Penpal follows a man revisiting fragmented memories of his childhood, uncovering a single, terrifying story that links bizarre events, haunting impressions, and the bonds that shaped his life.

In an apocalyptic near‑future, a mother and her two small children navigate a river blindfolded to avoid a terrifying entity, while the story features profanity and graphic violence.

Nightmares is a horror anthology of 24 short stories by authors such as Garth Nix, Livia Llewellyn, Richard Kadrey, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan, and Gene Wolfe, edited by Ellen Datlow.

The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horrors, colonial horror, and tales of mystery and premonition. This anthology brings together 29 of the greatest horror stories of the period from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions. It ranges widely across the sub-genres to encompass authors whose terror-inducing powers remain unsurpassed. The book includes stories by some of the best writers of the century-- Hoffmann, Poe, Balzac, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, Zola--as well as established genre classics such as M.R. James, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and others. It includes rare and little known pieces by writers such as William Maginn, Francis Marion Crawford, W.F. Harvey, and William Hope Hodgson, and shows the important role played by periodicals in popularizing the horror story. Wherever possible stories are reprinted in their first published form, with background information about their authors and helpful, contextualizing annotation. Darryl Jones's lively introduction discusses horror's literary evolution and its articulation of cultural preoccupations and anxieties. These are stories guaranteed to freeze the blood, revolt the senses, and keep you awake at night: prepare to be terrified!

"A curse in an old cemetery can't hurt anyone--or can it? A voice on the telephone isn't from beyond the grave--or is it? A child's illness couldn't be caused by a vampire--or could it? Welcome, dear reader! Are your ready to shiver and quiver, to shudder and shake? Is the door locked? Are the lights on brightly? Do you dare explore a world of terror? Then, please, do come in. Pick up this book. Turn the pages. Just don't say you weren't warned."--Back cover.