Get Spooked Again

More creepy tales of horror and the supernatural

Dale Bailey

House of Bones. NAL, 2003.
Four strangers are invited by an unconventional billionaire to unlock the secrets of Dreamland, part of a long-abandoned housing project said to be haunted. They get more than they bargained for when they come face-to-face with Evil.

Gary A. Braunbeck

Keepers. Dorchester, 2005.
Gil Stewart witnesses the bizarre death of an old man who warns him that "The Keepers are coming." Soon Gil's world begins to fall apart and it all has something to do with a past he cannot remember.

Ramsey Campbell

Creatures of the Pool. Leisure, 2010.
After his scientist father goes missing, Gavin Meadows digs through his research in hopes of finding clues that will lead him to his father and stumbles upon a horrifying secret about his hometown.

Simon Clark

The Tower. Leisure, 2005.
A haunted mansion not only contains the ghosts of the past, but can reach into the future to predict how its current occupants will die, infecting the entire town with its madness.

Douglas Clegg

Afterlife. NAL, 2004.
After the murder of her husband, Julie Hutchinson seems to mentally unravel, suffering nightmares and hallucinations. Could Jeff's death be linked to his past work with Project Daylight, a now-defunct privately funded school that conducted experiments on young children with ESP?

Ray Garton

Scissors. Publishers Group UK, 2010.
As a boy, Stuart was tortured by Dr. Ferguson, who did horrifying things to him with scissors. But Stuart's fears return when Dr. Ferguson comes back ...determined to torment Stuart's son.

R. Patrick Gates

Grimm Memorials. Pinnacle, 2005, 1990.
All they want to do is get away from the big city, but when Steve and Diane Nailer move from Boston to the cozy town of Northwood, they find themselves in a fight beyond any they could have imagined--a fight to save the souls of their children. Followed by: Grimm Reapings (2006)

Christopher Golden

Wildwood Road. Spectra, 2005.
While driving home from a Halloween masquerade Michael Dansky nearly runs down a young girl standing in the road. He takes her home to a house where he is overcome by such a dreadness that he flees. He then starts to see the girl everywhere, repeating a request for him to “Come find me.”

Sara Gran

Come Closer. Soho, 2003
Instead of the book she ordered, Amanda receives a copy of something entitled Demon Possession Past and Present. As she reads the book she becomes less and less herself...and more like someone very evil indeed.

Mira Grant

Deadline. Orbit, 2011.
Shaun Mason, the head of a news organization, takes on the biggest story of his career when a missing CDC researcher turns up with a gang of zombies.

W. G. Griffiths

Driven. Warner, 2002
A demon on a rampage of terror is stalked by a homicide detective whose grandfather was among its victims, and a computer hacker.

Barbara Hambly

Blood Maidens. Severn House, 2010
After hearing that the Kaiser may have a plan to build an army of vampires in preparation for war, James Asher and his vampire partner venture to St. Petersburg to learn the truth.

Steven Harriman

Sleeper. Berkley, 2003
Talk about secrets at the Pentagon! In the aftermath of 9/11, a construction worker unwittingly opens a canister in which a carnivorous beast has been cryogenically frozen.

James Herbert

Once-- Tor, 2003
As stroke victim, Thom Kincaid, struggles to regain control of his life, his return home makes him the target of a centuries-old evil. His only chance for survival lies in a world he no longer believes in.

Joe Hill

Horns. Morrow, 2010.
Upon learning of the death of his childhood sweetheart, Ig Parrish tries to drown his sorrows by drinking. When he awakens from his drunken stupor, he finds horns on his head and he is filled with an incredible power coupled with an urge for revenge.

H. R. Howland

Ashes. Berkley, 2005.
When a burial plot at an archeological dig in Honduras is opened, an evil spirit is unleashed which begins jumping into bodies of living creatures and killing the others, leaving behind piles of ash. It stays on the move until it descends upon a small Pennsylvania town.

James Byron Huggins

Nightbringer. Whitaker, 2004.
A group of tourists traveling in the Alps visit an old abbey where a snowstorm traps them for several days. It doesn't take them long to figure out that something very strange is going on and that the monastery is hiding a terrible secret.

Nate Kenyon

Bloodstone. Five Star, 2005.
Recovering alcoholic Billy Smith cannot get the voices out of his head. For reasons he does not understand, he kidnaps a prostitute known only as Angel and heads north to a small New England town where something monstrous has taken root and has waited centuries for the right time to awaken.

J. Knight

Risen. Kensington, 2004.
In the small town of Anderson, strange things are becoming common: Madge Duffy's murdered husband comes back to life, looking no worse for wear, and a local deputy cannot fathom why his shirt has a bullet hole in it. How do you spell z-o-m-b-i-e?

Dean R. Koontz

By the Light of the Moon. Bantam, 2002
Three people become the innocent victims of a "doctor" who injects them with a mysterious substance which will either kill them or transform their lives--unless the assassins now after them find them first.

Tim Lebbon

Fears Unnamed. Leisure, 2004.
4 short nightmarish and fantastical novels with end-of-the-world scenarios.

Deborah LeBlanc

Grave Intent. Leisure, 2005.
When a gypsy family holds a funeral at the funeral home run by Michael and Jane Savoy, a special gold coin is placed between the deceased teenage girl's hands, meant to pay her safe passage to the next world, is stolen by Michael's father in order to pay off a bookie debt. The ghost of the dead girl's grandfather warns Michael that unless the coin is returned, their own daughter will die. But the thief has lost the coin.

Edward Lee

Messenger. Leisure, 2004.
The town of Danelleton, Florida is forever changed when the delivery of a mysterious package at the local post office triggered a horrifying killing spree. A decade later, a new wave of murder breaks out, and Jane Ryan, the post office station manager comes to believe that someone--or something--demonic is responsible.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Handling the Undead. St. Martin's, 2010.
The dead come to life in the city morgue of Stockholm.

Bentley Little

The Disappearance. Signet, 2010.
After the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gary goes on a mission to track her down but finds no evidence of her existence. As he relentlessly continues his search, he stumbles upon an interesting clue that leads to a cult known as the Homesteaders.

Jonathan Maberry

The Dead Pine Trilogy
The citizens of Pine Deep must fight for their lives when a monstrous evil threatens to destroy the town during the Halloween Festival. Titles in the series: Ghost Road Blues (2006), Dead Man's Song (2007), Bad Moon Rising (2008).

Graham Masterton

Blind Panic. Leisure, 2010.
When thousands of people inexplicably lose their sight, harry Erskine must find a way to stop an Algonquin medicine man who has come back to life to seek retribution for the massacre of his people.

Chandler McGrew

The Darkening. Dell, 2004.
After a blackout, the world is plunged into darkness and the inhabitants of Earth's cities begin to vanish. Is it the end of the world? It is up to a small, secret cadre of warriors that has been preparing for the apocalypse for centuries to save civilization from an encroaching evil.

James A. Moore

Serenity Falls. Meisha Merlin, 2002.
Serenity Falls is a great place to live, especially since the local quarry has been reopened...but soon strange and grisly things start to happen and old secrets are uncovered by some of the town's newer residents. Followed by: Pack (2003) and Dark Carnival (2003)

Scott Nicholson

The Red Church. Pinnacle, 2002
For years, the red church--where its pastor was lynched by his congregation--has stood empty. Locals speak of the thing that lives in the bell tower, a being now being blamed for a rash of murders.

Chuck Palahnuik

Haunted. Doubleday, 2005.
It's The Most Dangerous Game meets Survivor when a group of people who have signed up for writer's workshop/retreat find themselves locked in an old ornate theatre house with no way out.

Frank E. Peretti

Monster. WestBow, 2005
While on a survival weekend deep in the woods, policeman Reed Shelton is attacked and pursued by a large creature that carries off his wife. Is it Sasquatch? Or is it the result of "bad science" courtesy of some renegade researchers who have been fiddling with the DNA of chimpanzees?

Sarah Pinborough

The Reckoning. Leisure, 2005
Four childhood friends return to Syracousse, a long-deserted house where violent events took place a quarter-century earlier and where they learn that the past has not yet been buried.

David Searcy

Ordinary Horror. Plume, 2002
An elderly man sends away for a remedy to the mysterious pest menacing his beloved roses, but the solution proves to be far worse than the problem.

Dan Simmons

The Terror. LB, 2007
The crewmen of an Arctic expedition discover that there is more to fear than simply the frigid elements. The real threat is out there in the darkness, stalking their ship.

Bryan Smith

Deathbringer. Leisure, 2006
Zombies are on the loose in the small town of Dandridge until a stranger arrives, armed with the power to destroy them all and return the town to the living.

Craig Spector

Underground. Tor, 2005.
Seven friends who call themselves the Underground throw one last private party before graduation at an uninhabited moldering southern plantation and in one terrifying night their lives are forever changed .Twenty years later, the survivors are forced to face the demons (literally) of the past.

Joe Schreiber

Chasing the Dead. Ballantine, 2006.
During the course of one terrifying night, Sue Young's daughter has been kidnapped and the faceless abductor forces her into an ever-escalating nightmare involving grave robbing, child killing, shotgun murders, zombies and various other undead.

Peter Straub

A Dark Matter. Doubleday, 2010.
Decades after a secret ritual goes fatally wrong, old friends must deal with the darkness of the past and find themselves by the evil they are responsible for unleashing.

Thomas Sullivan

Second Soul. Onyx, 2005.
While struggling for his life after a skiing accident Michael Carmichael witnesses a fatal bus crash. And after his near-death experience, he begins to notice strange things happening. It seems the spirits of the dead bus victims are clinging to life through him. Is he really alive? Or dead? or just insane?

Koji Suzuki

Ring. Vertical 2003, 1991.
A journalist discovers that four teenaged victims of sudden, simultaneous heart attacks had recently watched a videotape that guaranteed their deaths in one week unless they followed certain instructions.

Tamara Thorne

The Sorority Trilogy
At exclusive Greenbriar University, the even more exclusive Gamma Eta Pi sorority is really a secret sisterhood of evil. Books in the trilogy are: Eve (2003), Merilynn (2003); and Samantha (2003)

Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger. Riverhead, 2009.
When Dr. Faraday is beckoned to the decrepit Hundred Halls by the Ayres family, he witnesses supernatural occurrences in the house.

Chet Williamson

Second Chance. Leisure, 2002, 1995
Friends who recreate the 60s during a party travel back in time to save the lives of two friends who died tragically. But they quickly learn that some things should be left dead and buried.

--updated by Lisa Ferzola

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