13 Haunting Books To Read This Fall, If You Dare

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Tis the season for re-re-watching Stranger Things and contemplating the punniest
possible couples costume, plug and socket notwithstanding. Tis also the season for
picking up scary books books that disturb, books that alarm, books that go bump in
the night.
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Weve selected a few of our favorite seasonally appropriate new books, including a
years-long study of witchcraft in America, and a surreal short story collection thats
more psychologically unsettling than overtly stomach-turning. Weve done our best to
run the gamut: noir, true crime, surrealism, and straight-up, old-fashioned ghost
stories.
For further reading, see our lists of haunted houses in literature, scary short stories,
and badass literary witches.
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Moshfegh was recently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Eileen, shortly after
which she told The Guardian the book had been written as a fuck-you joke, also Im
broke, also I want to be famous. A noirish psychological thriller, the novel arose from
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Moshfeghs plan to write a more conventionally attention-getting book than her

previous, niche literary ction. In a way, she succeeded Eileen received plenty of
review coverage and award notice but not entirely, because its far from
conventional. It follows an isolated, miserable young woman who lives with her
alcoholic father and works at a correctional institute for delinquents. She is obsessed
with her bodily functions, the loathsomeness she sees in the mirror. When she meets a
beautiful, clever teacher, Rebecca, whos started a position at the institute, she
becomes captivated by the possibility of a salvic friendship. Instead, things take a
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darker turn. Moshfegh is a master of the creeping, miasmic atmosphere, which

pervades the novel to its unsettling end. -Claire Fallon
Read our review.
HARPER
IntimationsbyAlexandraKleeman
Several of the stories in Kleemans rst short story collection arent spooky, per se
theyre works of realism centered on a protagonist named Karen who nds herself in
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unsettling situations. A paradise vacation is ruined by a jellysh infestation; an infant is

left in the care of an elderly stranger. But those are the conventional stories. The less
conventional the surreal are all reminiscent of a fun house, with their heroines
getting lost in maze-like scenarios. A woman shows up to a party wearing a bloody
nurses costume, and when real murders ensue, she nds herself incriminated. Another
woman nds herself stuck in a house with doors that only open in one direction, so she
reluctantly takes on domestic responsibilities. Which might be the very denition of
eerie. -Maddie Crum
Read our review.
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HOGARTH
TheVegetarianbyHanKang
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A horror novel about a determined vegetarian sounds like a terrible Fox News joke, but
Han Kangs spare, haunting book is exactly that. Published in South Korea in 2007, then
translated into English and published in the U.S. earlier this year, The Vegetarian
depicts a young South Korean woman, Yeong-hye, who abruptly begins to refuse to eat
meat, sh or animal products. She vaguely cites a dream, horrifying visions of blooddrenched abbatoirs that come to her in her sleep. Her ambitious husband worries
about appearances; her family wants to force her to eat normally again to x her
marriage, which is soon crumbling. Her shrinking body becomes the focus of her
brother-in-laws sexual obsession. Surrounded by aggression, Yeong-hye is almost
dangerously passive, a perilous concoction that sets readers teeth on edge as the
family spins closer and closer to total disaster. Eerie, tragic, and at times viscerally
brutal, The Vegetarian is guaranteed to leave you feeling vaguely creeped out during
mealtimes for days after reading. -CF
Read our review.
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WitchesofAmericabyAlexMar
There isnt a whole lot of toil and trouble going on in Mars ethnographic study of
Paganism, a religion thats more widespread in America today than youd think. Mar
immerses herself so completely in a handful of sects of modern-day Paganism
namely, the Faerie Wicca tradition that she questions whether she wants to pursue
initiation into the practice herself. What emerges from this is a story thats both
personal and impressively observant; one that helps the reader understand the appeal
of witchcraft, which, for those who practice it, can be empowering, community building,
and even an act of feminism. -MC
Read our review.
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DOUBLEDAY
TheUndergroundRailroadbyColsonWhitehead
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Needless to say, the institution of slavery encompassed many of the greatest horrors
of American history. Those were real, unconscionable crimes, not ghost stories. But
Whiteheads steampunk sci- reimagining of the Underground Railroad casts his whole
tale into an uncanny new light and the Gothic torments inicted by his slave-owners
and the slave-supporting government come through as both true glimpses of history
and nightmarish scenes from a horror story. Its a bone-chilling, spine-tingling book to
read on a dark night, but not in a titillating, comforting way. Readers will be confronting
historical atrocities that still have profound consequences for our country. But if the
frightening frisson doesnt resolve into pleasurable thrills, it does transform into
something even better: appreciation for Whiteheads knife-sharp prose and searing
message. -CF
Read our review.
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TheUnfinishedWorld:AndOtherStoriesbyAmberSparks
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A janitor nally discovers a place where her loneliness can feel sublime: working in the
sanitation department on a spaceship. Jazz-loving twins grow violently apart after
puberty molds their bodies into differing shapes. Amber Sparks works within worlds
that are either surreal, or stranger than ction. Often, her stories are rooted in some
bizarre, true tidbit from our own world, but she colors in these distant stories with
humanizing details. There are sculptors and taxidermists, quiet curiosities and
shocking plot twists. Sparks stories have a fairy talelike quality, if fairy tales were
imbued with the blackest kind of humor. -MC
Read our post on modern-day fairy tales.
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PENGUIN
TheGirlsbyEmmaCline
Unless youre already aboard the true crime boat, The Girls might feel a little too real to
be categorized as merely haunting. Based on the women who joined Charles
Mansons cult, getting swept up in his charm, Clines book is eerie, to be sure. But its
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also a psychological examination of what can lead to that kind of groupthink.

Protagonist Evie Boyd is only a preteen when she witnesses a group of carefree girls
ashing their breasts, sharing cigarettes, shoplifting. She aches to be one of them, and
soon enough, she is, but that sense of belonging doesnt come free. Many of the books
scenes are set in a drug-fueled haze, one that coddles its heroine but makes the reader
feel constantly unsettled. -MC
Read our review.
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MACMILLAN
SomePossibleSolutionsbyHelenPhillips
In her debut novel, The Beautiful Bureaucrat, and then this years short story collection,
Phillips shows a gift for the eerie and existentially terrifying that lingers in the air long
after youve closed the book. Not all of the stories in Some Possible Solutions are
overtly spooky, but plenty of them will send chills up your spine in one, a young
mother realizes every woman in town is a doppelganger of her; in another, a woman
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opts to nd out the date of her death, against her husbands wishes, and it hangs
ominously over her entire life; in still another, a woman suddenly begins to see through
peoples skin to their organs and skeletons, making her everyday world a horror.
Phillips always leaves her off-kilter stories aloft, deftly, at the most gut-clenching point
in the narrative, leaving readers with a spooked feeling thats hard to shake off. -CF
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COFFEE HOUSE
UprightBeastsbyLincolnMichel
Many of Michels short stories are set in quaint spots a school cafeteria, a quiet
suburb, a Colorado mining town. The sorts of places that are so ordinary, something
strange is bound to materialize, if not just to remind us of the unavoidable force of
chaos. The students will revolt; the neighbors will crack under the pressure of constant
politeness. Michels not the rst to apply the surreal to the monotony of the suburbs
if youre a fan of David Lynch, youll probably like his stories, too but his ability to
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SeeYouinParadisebyJ.RobertLennon
If youre already into either sci- or horror, you mightve already identied or even
wearied the tropes of the genres. The pretty girl gets ax murdered; the daring nerd
fends off the zombies while breathlessly dreaming up a plan behind a door throbbing
with attempted entries. J. Robert Lennon recognizes these stereotypes, too, and he
works them into his stories in a way thats funny without being too cynical. Its a sort of
Shawn of the Dead take on the uncanny; you laugh along with the characters, but you
grow to like them, too. In the especially hilarious rst story, a father nds a portal in the
backyard of his new home, and wonders why the feature wasnt mentioned in the real
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Get ready for some gore: Bells short stories (some new, some previously published)
are just as gruesome as they are psychologically unsettling. In one, a man is haunted
by his childhood discovery of his own murdered mother in the basement refrigerator; in
another, a boy is imprisoned in a room with an albino ape by a man who just wants to
watch them, for his own perverse reasons. One story, formatted alphabetically as an
actual index, is titled Index of How Our Family Was Killed, and despite the restrictive
template the pacing is inexorably horrifying. Written in forceful, visceral prose, Bells
frightening collection should only be read alone on a dark night if youre prepared to
jump at every unexpected noise for the rest of the evening. -CF
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AnnihilationbyJeffVanderMeer
ICYMI: VanderMeers badass trilogy, rolled out in 2014, will soon be a movie starring
Natalie Portman and Gina Rodriguez. With its cast and its enchanting source material,
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books are more than page-turners; theyre worth savoring, each for different reasons.
The rst installment of the series, Annihilation, is more thought experiment than saga
a crew of highly skilled risk-takers, including a biologist and a psychologist, make
their way into an unknown force of nature, dubbed Area X by the government. The area
is growing at a clip, and the crew is tasked with nding out why, and how they can stop
it.-MC
Read our review.
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VINTAGE
TheSecretHistorybyDonnaTartt
Throwback special! Published in 1992, Tartts debut novel introduced her trademarks,
including a hefty page count, a dark mystery at the center of the plot, and characters
seem just a bit unlike anyone you know. The Secret History is set in a New
who
England liberal arts college, amongst a small, exclusive clique of friends who are
favored by their eccentric classics teacher. When a midnight Dionysian ritual goes
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catastrophically awry, the teenagers nd themselves pulled to darker lengths to keep

their secrets. Tartt juxtaposes an old-fashioned, romantic style and setting a Britishstyle college populated with wealthy students playing at erudite sophistication with
a brutal, grisly undercurrent that seeps to the surface as the novel winds on. For any
fans of The Goldnch who havent yet checked out Tartts back catalog, or any readers
looking for a creepy murder mystery with a twist, The Secret History is a must-read. -CF
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article stated that the setting of The Secret
History was a boarding school, rather than a liberal arts college.

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INF O RM INSPIRE ENT ERTAIN EMPO WER

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For Rs 100 Per KG

Yudhvir Singh Jamwal 5

I'm happy for them.

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Moshfeghs plan to write a more conventionally attention-getting book than her

darker turn. Moshfegh is a master of the creeping, miasmic atmosphere, which

Read our review.

unsettling situations. A paradise vacation is ruined by a jellysh infestation; an infant is

Read our review.

Read our review.

Read our review.

Read our review.

Read our post on modern-day fairy tales.

also a psychological examination of what can lead to that kind of groupthink.

Read our review.

Read our review.

13 Haunting Books To Read This Fall, If Yo

13 Haunting Books To Read This Fall, If Yo

13 Haunting Books To Read This Fall, If Yo

Read our review.

13 Haunting Books To Read This Fall, If Yo

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