V.C. Andrews

FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC, 1979, 412 pp.
Four children are kept hidden in their hateful grandparents’ attic so that their mother can gain a sizeable inheritance. It’s only supposed to be for a few days, but days turn into weeks, then months, then years….

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John Farris

FIENDS, 1990, 314 pp.
A crate, addressed to a college professor, is found by a farmer, who stores it until the owner can claim it. When curiosity overcomes the farmer, though, he opens the crate and unleashes demonic fiends upon the village.

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Laurell Hamilton

NARCISSUS IN CHAINS, 2001, 424 pp.
Anita Blake is in an unusual love triangle: the two men in her life have immortal powers of werewolf and vampire and can give her the strength she needs to overcome a deadly enemy or destroy her soul.

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Thomas Harris

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1988, 338 pp.
Here we meet Hannibal Lecter, Clarice Starling and Buffalo Bill – three compelling characters very different from each other, but connected to each other through the crimes they commit, and the crimes they solve. Psychologically terrifying.

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Dean Koontz

BAD PLACE, 1990, 382 pp.
Amnesiac Frank is going places in his sleep – places he can’t remember. He enlists the help of husband and wife detective team Julie and Bobby to watch him and solve his mystery. But soon they, too, are under attack from things from the bad place.

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Ira Levin

STEPFORD WIVES, 1972, 145 pp.
Joanna and Walter leave the city behind to settle in bucolic Stepford. But things aren’t always as they seem, and Joanna finds wickedness below the surface.

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Anne Rice

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, 1986, 346 pp.
Confessions of a gentle vampire, Louis, describing his first 200 years of being one of the undead.

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John Saul

PRESENCE, 1997, 338 pp.
The idyllic setting of Hawaii is misleading, as archeologists on a mission to study skeletal remains discover a deeper, more horrific existence.

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Peter Straub

IN THE NIGHT ROOM, 2004, 320 pp.
Willy Patrick finds her life colliding with that of a stranger, Timothy Underhill, when she experiences an eerie event involving the death of her daughter, while Timothy receives messages from dead people he had known when he was younger.

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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

PALACE, 1978, 408 pp.
Set in Florence, in the time of Botticelli, the vampire St. Germaine takes the name of San Germano. Still benevolent and dashing, he charms all in his path, but is on his quest for his one true love.

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