Horror books you simply can't put down

[MissBlueskies]

Hi, I love horror books/horror films. I love having a good book to read before going to sleep and am struggling to find any. Can anyone recommend a great horror book you just can't put down? Thanks.

I love Watchers by Dean R Koontz. Definitely a favourite.

Have you read It by Stephen King? Scared me to the point I was checking the wardrobe & under the bed! I'll usually re-read after a few years but never that one!

Reading IT at the moment ds had a birthday last week, we have ballons in the house, not a good combo !

Slade House by David Mitchell is very good, also by him:The Bone Clocks. Not sure if I would define them as horror exactly, but creepy enough...

More creepy than horror but couldn't stop reading and was terrified! Michelle Paver's Dark Matter

Second Dark Matter

Another one for dark matter

I looked for Dark Matter in the library on Monday but they didn't have it, or any of the other books that were recommended on a similar thread.

Thank you all for your recommendations. I went to my library and they have Slade House, so I've taken it out. They have ordered all the rest that you recommended, so I'll have a good supply of horror books!

Mark Danielewski's The House of Leaves is supposed to be terrifying. I haven't got very far into it yet as it's textbook sized so you really need to commit to sitting down and reading it. It's not really a read-in-bed or read-in-the-bath book.

Sade House was scary but I'm not sure I'd have got some parts of it if I hadn't already read The Bone Clocks - although Slade House was written first!

Adam Nevill writes really scary books. The two best in my opinion are End of Days and No One Gets Our of Here Alive.