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Adult Horror

Spine-tingling horror that will make you want to sleep with the light on.

Laurel County Public Library

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  • At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. For years it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. Soon the door will be opened for the first time in decades. But something is waiting,…
    BookSan Francisco, California : Inkshares, Inc., [2017] — M THOMA 2017
  • A disturbing tale of a woman haunted by her long-abandoned imaginary friend.
    BookSan Francisco, California : Inkshares, 2019. — M/THOMA/2019
  • A dark, suspenseful thriller. A multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. Available in other formats.
    BookNew York : Celadon Books, 2019. — M NORTH 2019
  • You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Available in other formats.
    BookNew York : Celadon Books, 2020. — M NORTH 2020
  • The truth will only be found below the waves. But the secrets of the deep come with a price. Available in other formats.
    BookNew York : Orbit, 2017. — SF GRANT 2017
  • Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them…
    BookNashville, Tennessee : Turner Publishing Company, [2019] — M OCKER 2019
  • Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Available in other formats. Be sure to check out the movie…
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015. — M/MALER/2015
  • Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-day camping trip; a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story and a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder --…
    BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2014. — M/CUTTE/2014
  • It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. The friends realize that there is a terrible evil lurking in Elm Haven...and they must be the ones…
    BookNew York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2011. — M SIMMO 2011
  • The Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.…
    BookNew York : Pocket Books, 2002. — M KING 2002
  • An inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense. Available in other formats.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, [2018] — M TREMB 2018
  • For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and…
    Audiobook CDGrand Haven, Ml : Brilliance Audio, [2012] — M/STRAU/2012