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Seriously Scary Reads for Those of You Who Take Spooky Season Seriously, CALS Staffers Are Sharing Some of the Scariest Books They’Ve Ever Read Seriously Scary Reads For those of you who take spooky season seriously, CALS staffers are sharing some of the scariest books they’ve ever read. Think twice before you read them at night. Or when you’re alone. Or during a storm. Or...well, you get the idea. CALS.ORG Binge Read: Seriously Scary Books 1991 American Psycho Ellis, Bret Easton r read it! 2017 Her Body & Other Parties Muchado, Carmen Maria r read it! 1983 And Then There Were None Christie, Agatha r read it! 1994 The Hot Zone Preston, Richard r read it! 2011 Anna Dressed in Blood Blake, Kendare r read it! 2000 House of Leaves Danielewski, Mark Z. r read it! 2014 Annihilation VanderMeer, Jeff r read it! 2012 I Hunt Killers Lyga, Barry r read it! 1936 At the Mountains of Madness Lovecraft, H.P. r read it! 2017 Ill Will Chaon, Dan r read it! 2016 The Beauty Haun, Jeremy r read it! 2006 In the Miso Soup Murakami, Ryu r read it! 2015 Bird Box Malerman, Josh r read it! 1954 Lord of the Flies Golding, William r read it! 2017 The Black Monday Murders Hickman, Jonathan r read it! 2016 Lovecraft Country Ruff, Matt r read it! 1999 Blindness Saramago, José r read it! 2009 Monstrumologist Yancey, Rick r read it! 1985 Blood Meridian McCarthy, Cormac r read it! 2016 My Best Friend's Exorcism Hendrix, Grady r read it! 2016 Butterfly Garden Hutchinson, Dot r read it! 2018 My Sister the Serial Killer Braithwaite, Oyinkan r read it! 1989 Carrion Comfort Simmons, Dan r read it! 2013 Night Film Pessl, Marisha r read it! 2009 The Child Thief Brom, Gerald r read it! 1983 Pet Sematary King, Stephen r read it! 2013 City of the Dead Anderson, T. Neill r read it! 2015 Pretty Girls Slaughter, Karin r read it! 2016 Clean Room Simone, Gail r read it! 2010 The Prince of Mist Zafón, Carlos Ruiz r read it! 2010 The Collector Fowles, John r read it! 1938 Rebecca du Maurier, Daphne r read it! 2006 Come Hell and High Water Hood, Jean r read it! 1991 Ring Suzuki, Kōji r read it! 1987 Dawn Butler, Octavia r read it! 1971 The Room Selby Jr., Hubert r read it! 2015 The Dead House Kurtagich, Dawn r read it! 2010 Rosemary’s Baby Levin, Ira r read it! 2012 The Diviners Bray, Libba r read it! 2006 The Ruins Smith, Scott r read it! 1897 Dracula Stoker, Bram r read it! 2018 Sawkill Girls Legrand, Claire r read it! 1971 The Exorcist Beatty, William Peter r read it! 1981 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Schwartz, Alvin r read it! 2017 Fever Dream Schweblin, Samanta r read it! 1992 The Secret History Tartt, Donna r read it! 2017 Final Girls Sager, Riley r read it! 1988 The Silence of the Lambs Harris, Thomas r read it! 2018 Freshwater Emezi, Akwaeke r read it! 1962 Something Wicked This Way Comes Bradbury, Ray r read it! 2002 Geek Love Dunn, Katherine r read it! 2017 Stillhouse Lake Caine, Rachel r read it! 1979 Ghost Story Straub, Peter r read it! 1991 The Tell-Tale Heart Poe, Edgar Allan r read it! 2017 Harrow County Bunn, Cullen r read it! 2017 There's Someone Inside Your House Perkins, Stephanie r read it! 2005 Haunted Palahniuk, Chuck r read it! 1956 The Trial Kafka, Franz r read it! 1959 The Haunting of Hill House Jackson, Shirley r read it! 2014 The Troop Cutter, Nick r read it! 2015 A Head Full of Ghosts Tremblay, Paul G. r read it! 1898 Turn of the Screw James, Henry r read it! 2007 Heart Shaped Box Hill, Joe r read it! 2009 White is for Witching Oyeyemi, Helen r read it! 1971 Hell House Matheson, Richard r read it! 2014 You Kepnes, Caroline r read it! 1974 Helter Skelter Bugliosi, Vincent r read it! 1995 Zombie Oates, Joyce Carol r read it! 8/2/20.
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