Books like Halloween by Paula Guran

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.

When car‑broking novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by his obsessive fan, former nurse Annie Wilkes, she forces him to return his favorite character, Misery, to life as she keeps him captive in her isolated cabin.

First‑person memoir of Neo‑classical Manhattan investment banker Patrick Bateman, whose glossy façade masks a brutal, psychopathic descent into violence.

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.

Dan Torrance, a middle‑aged former Shining survivor, must protect a young girl with extraordinary psychic powers from the deadly True Knot, a traveling cult that feeds on children’s “shining.”

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

The story of two boys and their dark journey through a haunted carnival

In Regency England, Verity Windsor finds herself enchanted by the willful Lord Nicholas Montacute, whose mysterious allure threatens to sway her heart toward an unexpected rival.

Cop Angelina Jones falls for a troubled man from her past, Brandon Noble, who hides a dark secret—a vampire who vows to protect her from threats and his own bloodlust.

Stalkers is a 19‑story anthology edited by Edward Gorman that examines the dark theme of stalking through the lenses of science‑fiction, fantasy, and horror, delivering a chilling mix of suspenseful American short fiction.

Its haloween and anything is possible...

Gathered in one volume, these fresh and classic horror tales—such as Al Sarrantonio’s "Pumpkin Head" and William F. Nolan’s "The Halloween Man"—celebrate the spookiness of All Hallows’ Eve.

A compilation of classic short fiction from American, English, and European writers, featuring tales such as Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown" and Poe’s "Masque of the Red Death" that explore themes of morality, death, and society.

Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years (Publishers Weekly); a writer who "builds character invitingly and plants an otherworldly surprise around every corner" (New York Times).This gifted and brilliantly imaginative author catapulted to bestsellerdom with the chilling Heart-Shaped Box and cemented his reputation with the prizewinning volume of short fiction 20th Century Ghosts. At last, the New York Times bestselling author returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels. . . .Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It's time for a little revenge. . . . It's time the devil had his due. . . .

A collection of short, spooky tales for children, featuring eerie settings, wicked demons, and haunting banshees, and other unexpected twists, perfect for adventurous Halloween reading.

A curated anthology of classic American short stories, featuring works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, William Faulkner, and many others, compiled by Wallace Stegner.

An anthology of thirty contemporary short stories by leading American and English writers of ghost and horror fiction.