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Haunting Tales From Around the World

The chills are real with these critically-acclaimed scary stories from around the world. All captions are by Book Riot.

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  • This unsettling psychological horror novel begins with Ogi waking up from a coma following a car accident that killed his wife and left him paralyzed and disfigured. Now his mother-in-law is in charge of his care. But as she mourns the…
    eBookSkyhorse Publishing, 2017
  • Let the Right One In has already been adapted into two films and has recently been reimagined for a TV series. But if you haven’t read the book, you’re in for a treat. Let the Right One In is set in 1981 in a quiet suburb in Stockholm,…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. — F
  • A lot of readers find Tender is the Flesh deeply disturbing. How so? You’ll have to read and find out. Marco’s marriage has fallen apart and his father is suffering from dementia. Meanwhile, the world around him is changing rapidly. An…
    BookNew York : Scribner, [2020] — F
  • Uzumaki

    Spiral Into Horror

    Itō, Junji, 1963-
    If you’re touring horror from around the world, you have to include at least one Junji Ito graphic novel. Try Uzumaki, set in Kurouzu-cho, a small town encased in fog that is totally haunted. But Kurouzu-cho isn’t haunted by a singular…
    Graphic NovelSan Francisco, California : Viz Media, [2013] — PN6790.J33 I8713 2013
  • Why read a haunted house story when you can have a whole haunted apartment complex? The Graveyard Apartment tells the story of a young family who moves into a new apartment overlooking a graveyard. It probably comes as no surprise to you,…
    BookNew York : Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2016. — F
  • What would you do if you looked outside in the middle of the night to see all of your neighbors walking around in a dream state, carrying on as if it was day time? That’s what happens to 14-year-old Li Niannian in The Day the Sun Died. One…
    BookNew York : Grove Press, 2018. — PL2925.L54 R52713 2018
  • If you love a good haunting, here’s one from Iceland you won’t want to miss. Set in a small village in the Icelandic Westfjords, I Remember You tells the story of three friends who are renovating an old, rundown house. But what starts off…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne Book, [2014] — F
  • Here’s another unforgettable psychological horror novel from Argentina that’s really going to get into your head. As a young woman named Amanda lies dying in a hospital clinic in the middle of nowhere, she’s joined by a boy named David.…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2017. — F
  • Black Spring is a town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a 17th century woman who walks the streets and appears in people’s homes with her eyes and her mouth sewn shut. To keep the curse of the Black Rock Witch from spreading, the town has…
    BookNew York : Tor, 2016. — F
  • The story of Hadriana in All My Dreams begins during Carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. Hadriana, a beautiful young French woman, is preparing to marry a well-to-do Haitian boy from a prominent family. Everyone seems…
    eBook[Place of publication not identified] : Akashic Books, 2017. — PQ3949.D46
  • eBookNew York : Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. — PQ7798.29.C5388 N8313 2017
  • eBook[Place of publication not identified] : Grove Atlantic, 2018. — PL2925.L54