{"id":4407,"date":"2025-10-10T13:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:59:29","slug":"10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4407","title":{"rendered":"10 Scary Paranormal Books to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paranormal is defined as things impossible to explain by known natural forces or by science. As a book genre it can be particularly disturbing! Enjoy 10 Scary Paranormal Books to Read<\/p>\n<p><em>This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">10 Scary Paranormal Books to Read<\/h2>\n<div class=\"simpletoc wp-block-simpletoc-toc\">\n<h2><button class=\"simpletoc-collapsible\">Table of Contents<span class=\"simpletoc-icon\"><\/span><\/button><\/h2>\n<div class=\"simpletoc-content\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read\">10 Scary Paranormal Books to Read<\/a>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#dracula-by-bram-stoker\">Dracula by Bram Stoker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#fledgling-by-octavia-butler\">Fledgling by Octavia Butler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#come-closer-by-sara-gran\">Come Closer by Sara Gran<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#the-institute-by-stephen-king\">The Institute by Stephen King<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#interview-with-the-vampire-by-anne-rice\">Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#pedro-paramo-by-juan-rulfo\">Pedro P\u00e1ramo by Juan Rulfo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-shirley-jackson\">The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#what-moves-the-dead-by-t-kingfisher\">What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#the-only-good-indians-by-stephen-graham-jones\">The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/10-scary-paranormal-books-to-read#the-turn-of-the-screw-by-henry-james\">The Turn of the Screw by Henry James<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"> Dracula by Bram Stoker<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41vjBNb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DBram%2520Stoker%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DDracula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client\u2019s castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra slowly succumbs to a mysterious, wasting illness, her blood drained away; and the lunatic Renfield raves about the imminent arrival of his \u2018master\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing battle of wills between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries \u2013 led by the intrepid vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/draculas-guest-by-bram-stoker\">Bram Stoker<\/a> created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing into questions of identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Fledgling by Octavia Butler <\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3F6jZu2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DOctavia%2520Butler%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DFledgling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.<\/p>\n<p>As Shori heals, she realises that she isn\u2019t like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger.<\/p>\n<p>To save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her \u2013 and those who want her dead.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Come Closer by Sara Gran<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41JP3Zn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DSara%2520Gran%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DCome%2520Closer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary was going on.<br \/>Strange noises in the apartment.<br \/>Impulsive behaviour.<br \/>Intense dreams.<br \/>It wasn\u2019t like everything went wrong all at once.<br \/>Shoplifting.<br \/>Fighting.<br \/>Blackouts.<br \/>There must be a reasonable explanation for all this.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Institute by Stephen King<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Dp2kgO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DStephen%2520King%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DThe%2520Institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NO ONE HAS EVER ESCAPED FROM THE INSTITUTE.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Ellis, a super-smart twelve-year-old with an exceptional gift, is the latest in a long line of kids abducted and taken to a secret government facility, hidden deep in the forest in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Here, kids with special talents \u2013 telekinesis and telepathy \u2013 like Luke\u2019s new friends Kalisha, Nick and Iris, are subjected to a series of experiments.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be no hope of escape. Until Luke teams up with an even younger boy whose powers of telepathy are off the scale.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson, looking for the quiet life, has taken a job working for the local sheriff. He doesn\u2019t know he\u2019s about to take on the biggest case of his career . . .<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Xye47o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DAnne%2520Rice%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DInterview%2520with%2520the%2520Vampire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life \u2013 the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Rice\u2019s compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula was published in 1897.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Pedro P\u00e1ramo by Juan Rulfo<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DauVqd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DJuan%2520Rulfo%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DPedro%2520P%25E1ramo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swearing to his dying mother that he\u2019ll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro P\u00e1ramo, Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of dreams and the nightly whispers of Comala\u2019s ghosts, there emerges the tragic tale of Pedro P\u00e1ramo and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3K3Ot01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3K3Ot01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DShirley%2520Jackson%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3DThe%2520Haunting%2520of%2520Hill%2520House\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson\u2019s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a \u201chaunting;\u2019 Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers\u2014and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3IOG8vB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3IOG8vB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DT.%2520Kingfisher%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DWhat%2520Moves%2520the%2520Dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.<\/p>\n<p>What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.<\/p>\n<p>Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41nuAIs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DStephen%2520Graham%2520Jones%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DThe%2520Only%2520Good%2520Indians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ricky, Gabe, Lewis and Cassidy are men bound to their heritage, bound by society, and trapped in the endless expanses of the landscape. Now, ten years after a fateful elk hunt, which remains a closely guarded secret between them, these men \u2013 and their children \u2013 must face a ferocious spirit that is coming for them, one at a time. A spirit which wears the faces of the ones they love, tearing a path into their homes, their families and their most sacred moments of faith.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Turn of the Screw by Henry James<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Buy Now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FnRZlG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/58313\/77798\/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DHenry%2520James%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26n%3D-1%26prc%3DUSD%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DThe%2520Turn%2520of%2520the%2520Screw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. But is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence or something else entirely?<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed 10 Scary Paranormal Books to Read, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/quizlit.org\/modern-horror-books-to-read\">10 Terrifying Modern Horror Books to Read<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paranormal is defined as things impossible to explain by known natural forces or by science. As a book genre it can be particularly disturbing! 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