Summerween: Books You Should Read to Prepare For Spooky Season

When a couple purchases the house of their dreams, is it all too good to be true? Former marine Harry and his wife Sasha have left their old life behind to start over in rural Idaho. It seems like an odd move for two up-and-coming young professionals, but Sasha and Harry couldn’t be happier. That is until their neighbors stop by for a visit to warn them of a malevolent spirit that lives on the land.

Love reality TV and horror? Epiosde Thirteen is the perfect book for you. Fade to Black is a ghost hunting show led by husband-and-wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin. For their thirteenth episode, the couple is taking their viewers to the Paranormal Research Foundation, where strange experiments were conducted back in the 1970s. Now the building is haunted. More haunted than any other place Fade to Black has explored before. Are Matt and Claire ready for what awaits them here?

Zero Saints is a fast-paced horror/thriller novel that will haunt readers and have them on the edge of their seats. Fernando is an enforcer and drug dealer who is going through some tough times. There’s a group of really evil gangsters after him. And we mean truly evil. Like they might just have ties to hell itself. But with the help of a Santeria priestess, a Puerto Rican pop sensation, a Russian hitman, and a dog, Fernando might just have enough courage to fight against demons.

Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Clive Barker, Andy Marino’s It Rides A Pale Horse is a gripping and bone-chilling horror novel of obsession and greed. Peter Larkin left his small town of Wofford Falls to find fame in the art world. Now he’s returned home to settle down and reconnect with his sister Betsey. But Lark’s peaceful life is disrupted when he is shown disturbing footage of Betsey being abducted. What will happen to her? It all depends on Lark. He’s given a book, and all he has to do is whatever the book says. If he does that, Betsey will go free.

Vampire lovers, A Dowry of Blood is your must-read book to get ready for the spooky season. In this retelling of Dracula, we get the story from the perspective of Constanta, one of Dracula’s brides. Dracula rescues Constanta from imminent death and makes her one of his brides. When she first becomes an undead being, she sees Dracula as her savior. But she soon realizes her love is also capable of many terrible things.

As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead.

Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.

Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth; no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind.

When the United States invades Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros. But the shock of their reunion—and Nena’s rage at Néstor for seemingly abandoning her long ago—is quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.

Elizabeth Hand’s A Haunting on the Hill doesn’t come out until October 3^rd, but that still gives you plenty of time to read it before Halloween, and trust us that this is going to be the must-read book of this year’s spooky season! A Haunting on the Hill is the first-ever authorized return to the world of Shirley Jackson’s classic horror novel The Haunting of Hill House. Holly Sherwin is a struggling playwright who has received a grant to develop her play The Witch of Edmonton. When she comes upon Hill House, she thinks it’s the perfect getaway spot to finish the play. Soon Holly is joined by her girlfriend Nisa and a group of actors. But each person who enters Hill House brings with them ghosts of their own, and soon the house retaliates against its new inhabitants.