Ghostly Tales
for Spooky Fall Nights
Classic Horror
Psychopaths
and Serial Killers: Books To Keep You Up At Night
Spooky Tales for Teens
Ghostly Tales for Spooky Fall Nights
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
This novel was adapted into the movie, Field of Dreams. It begins with the magic
of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing
catch with the ghost of his father.
Pirates by Linda Lael Miller
Leaving Seattle to forget her broken marriage, Phoebe Turlow enters a run-down
island hotel and is transported two centuries back in time, where she meets
pirate patriot Duncan Rourke, who fears Phoebe will be taken away from him.
In the Country of the Young by Lisa Carey
Oisin MacDara, inherited the art of superstition, and every year he eagerly
awaits what All Hallow's Eve will bring him. What he hopes for is his sister,
Nieve, but Aisling arrives, a child in rags and a passenger from an Irish
immigrant ship--in other words, a ghost.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Classic tale of past, present, and future ghosts who visit with Scrooge.
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
A tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past,
and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.
She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
Mountain woman Nora Bonesteel has the power to “see” those figures from
Appalachia’s unspoiled wilderness past.
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
A young war widow travels to her country home, only to find it the center of
ghostly prowlers.
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
A delightful tale of the tragedies befalling successive generations of females
within a family.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Book on CD - fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where happy endings are
possible.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave.
Violin by Anne Rice
Book on tape - From nineteenth-century Vienna to present-day New Orleans and Rio
de Janeiro, this novel tells the story of three charismatic figures bound
together by their obsession with music.
Under the Lake by Stuart Woods
A mystery/horror combination that’s a true page-turner.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James – Classic
horror.
Tells the story of a governess, her young charges and two evil apparitions in
the English countryside.
Mine by Robert McCammon
When her newborn son is kidnapped by a former sixties radical, Laura Clayborne
takes matters into her own hands.
Nightshade by John Saul
15-year-old Matt’s life spirals into depression and madness when his
grandmother moves in, bringing with her the ghost of his dead aunt.
More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
Two mother-daughter relationships, two love stories, and two centuries come
together in Dundee, Maine, during the 1920’s, when Hannah Gray and Conary
Crocker confront a malevolent spirit.
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Story of two sisters: Olivia, totally American and pragmatic, and Kwan, Chinese
and mystical, who converse more easily with the dead than with the living.
Frankenstein by Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
A scientist builds a man from spare parts.
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel
Hawthorne (1837)
Thirty-nine stories, many of which reflect the author’s interest in the
supernatural.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert
Louis Stevenson (1886)
Stevenson's story of the kindly scientist who drinks a potion that nightly
transforms him into a stunted, evil version of himself is a tale of incomparable
suspense.
Dracula
by Bram Stoker (1897)
Dracula remains the ultimate horror story, thrilling readers with its
hair-raising portrait of a bloodthirsty vampire set loose on an English port
town.
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry
James (1898)
A governess arrives at an isolated English mansion to care for two seemingly
angelic but rather strange young children, and the appearance of two evil
phantoms leads her to question her sanity.
The Trial
by Franz Kafka (1925)
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of an ordinary man who wakes up
one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose
nature is never revealed to him.
The October Country
by Ray
Bradbury (1955)
This classic collection of short stories is inhabited by the horrors and demons
that lurk within us all.
The Haunting of Hill House
by
Shirley Jackson (1959)
The horror in this classical novel is both psychological and supernatural as
four disparate individuals move into a haunted house to investigate psychic
phenomena.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by
Oscar Wilde (1968)
The year’s pass, leaving a lovely young man unchanged while his portrait
reflects his slow descent into depravity.
Grendel
by John Gardner (1971)
The Beowolf saga retold from the monster’s point of view.
PSYCHOPATHS AND SERIAL KILLERS:
BOOKS TO KEEP YOU UP NIGHTS
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
In the aftermath of World War I an emotionally scarred Scotland Yard inspector
is sent to rural Surrey to investigate the apparently motiveless slaughter of a
family and detects the work of a madman who has struck before.
The Broken Hearts Club by Ethan Black
What begins as informal group therapy ends up in murder.
You Belong To Me by Mary Higgins Clark
A killer targets lonely women on cruise ships.
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York City
to the American South and finds his buried instincts - for love, survival, and,
ultimately, for killing - awakening as he confronts a monster beyond imagining.
The Maze by Catherine Coulter
Obsessed by their sister’s death at the hands of a serial killer, a world
class musician becomes an FBI agent for the purpose of tracking down the killer
and becomes a target herself.
The Coffin Dancer by Jeff Deaver
Quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme pursues an elusive assassin known only
by the distinctive tattoo of the Grim Reaper on his arm.
Detective by Arthur Hailey
A Miami police detective,is summoned by the death row inmate he helped convict
of four murders to hear his “confession” on the eve of his execution. The
man admits to an additional ten murders but insists he did not kill the city
commissioner or his daughter, a cop, leaving the detective to reopen the
investigation.
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by
her boss to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lector,
a gifted psychopath, in their quest to track down a flesh-eating monster on the
loose.
Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag
A psychopath known as the “Cremator” is killing prostitutes in Minneapolis
parks and setting their bodies on fire.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A subtle and unnerving tale of psychological terror weaving themes of
loneliness, obsession and fear.
The Butcher’s Theater by Jonathan Kellerman
In Jerusalem, a psychopath kills and dissects young Arab women while implicating
fanatical zealots and threatening the delicate political balance.
The Walls of Jericho by Jon Land
When a serial killer threatens peace talks taking place between the Israelis and
the Palestinians, an Arab-American detective and a Jewish security agent must
set aside their differences to stop the killing.
Mercy by David Lindsey
Detectives investigate the murders of wealthy citizens in Houston and unearths a
dark underground of sadomasochism.
The Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker
A 67-year-old cancer-ridden homicide detective is brought out of retirement and
teamed with a thirtyish beauty to apprehend a serial killer who dispatches his
female victims in ghastly ways.
Sunflower by Martha Powers
Lt. Sheila Brady has left the Milwaukee Police Department for a quieter life in
River Oaks only to find the life of her daughter threatened by a killer who
targets young blond girls.
Taking Lives by Michael Pye
A student from Holland takes a break from his studies to travel around the U.S.,
murdering various strangers along the way and stealing their identities.
Something Upstairs
: A Tale of Ghosts by Avi
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that
his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to
return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave
traders.
The
Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her friend Maxine and the
ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams
that soul-eaters are threatening her life.
Dracula and Other
Vampire Stories by Eric Kudalis
The vampire Dracula pursues his hunger for human blood, both in Transylvania and
London. Includes information about vampire stories in books and films and the
historical background of Dracula.
Jade Green : A
Ghost Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman,
recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes
mysterious happenings.
Gothic! : Ten
Original Dark Tales edited by Deborah Noyes
Vampires, ghosts, witches, and haunted houses are featured in this compilation
of frightening tales for young readers by various authors, including Joan Aiken,
Barry Yourgrau, Neil Gaiman, and Garth Nix.
Ghost Ship by Dietlof Reiche ; translated from the German by John Brownjohn
An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and
supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her
friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed
two hundred and thirty years in the past.
The Book of Dead
Days by Marcus Sedgwick
With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian
searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes
will save him from a pact he has made with evil.
The Boy of a
Thousand Faces by Brian Selznick
Obsessed with horror films, ten-year-old Alonzo dreams of transforming himself
into "The Boy of a Thousand Faces" and gets his wish in an unexpected
way.
A Gathering of
Shades by David Stahler Jr.
Having moved with his mother to a remote corner of Vermont after his father's
death, sixteen-year-old Aidan learns much about his family, including that
ghosts inhabit an ancient orchard on the family farm, sustained by his
grandmother.
The Taste of Night
by R.L. Stine
Livvy Weller wants her twin sister, Destiny, to join her on the darker side as a
vampire, but Destiny is determined to restore Livvy to her human condition and
bring her back home to their family.
Here There Be
Ghosts by Jane Yolen
An illustrated collection of short stories and poems about ghosts.