Books That Are Actually Scary (Warning: You Might Have Nightmares)
Boo! You know I love me a good thriller so I finally put together a list of books that genuinely got my pulse racing and gave me the heebie jeebies. If you're looking for some stories that pull you in and are near-impossible to put down, I think this list is for you. I tried to add different kinds of scary in here, not just ghost stories, so I hope you find something to your liking :) Happy reading~
Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge.With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
🦋 Annihilation 🦋
Day One
The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%.
Week Two
Civilization has crumbled.
⛺ Station Eleven ⛺
High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic.
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods.
🌲 In The Woods 🌲
An ordinary road in a town like yours: bus routes and red-brick houses. A dank narrow alley, easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. A small black metal door set into the wall: no handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it opens onto a sunlit garden.
🗝️ The Slade House 🗝️
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl.
🐁 Coraline 🐁
Evangeline O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and has to live with her uncle Will. Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far.