Recommend me a spooky book!

[PepperStakes]

I fancy having a scary book to read on these dark nights. I’m a total beginner to this genre so please recommend me anything because I definitely wouldn’t have read it!

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, I highly recommend.

Came on here to say Dark Matter, Costco beat me to it

All the Edgar Allen Poe stories

I read one called The Chalk Men recently.

The Shining by Stephen King. Waaaaay scarier than the film, and that's pretty, um, haunting.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by MR James - the master of the short ghost story imo. Perfect book for curling up by the fire with a glass of red.

Michelle Paver also has one called Thin Air which I liked too.

The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Silent Companions - Laura Purcell

Day Four is a bit squirmy.

The Loney and Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley.

Heart shaped box- joe hill
The snow child- eowyn ivey

Susan Hill has written several, but the best is The Woman in Black.

DH read one recently called The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. She has a second one out called The Corset.

Sophie Hannah's The Orphan Choir is creepy. DH read it, but I didn't want to as it has child deaths in it iirc.

Another for Michelle paver dark matter

Ooh, I'm just placemarking on here because I like the idea of this!

I came onto the thread to recommend exactly what TheLittleFoxes beat me to!

The Somnambulist by Essie Fox. Read an extract of it earlier today, set in a graveyard by moonlight and it was so gorgeously atmospheric.

Last Days of Jack Sparks - brilliantly chilling, compelling and clever.

The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert.... made me shudder

Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill - all his books are good.
The Man in the Moss
Candlelight
Crybbe
December
The Chalice all by Phil Rickman
F.G.Cottam’s books are good too. Sorry I can’t remember titles, I read them a while ago.
Another vote for Dark Matter

Mr Clarinet, Nick Stone - not a ghostly, spooky book but voodoo, evil people, gruesome descriptions and it will stay with you for a very long time afterwards!

I would recommend the woman in black. So much better than the film.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is supposed to be quite good. Inspired the film The Haunting and the new Netflix series of the same name.

White Silence by Jodi Taylor was very creepy. Sequel comes out tomorrow and I can't wait!

I read The Silent Companions when DP was away on a course and I had to sleep with the lights on....but I'm a big wimp with scary books.