Berlin Library Has Lots Of Horror For Spooky Season

BERLIN, CT — The Berlin-Peck Memorial Library should be a go-to place for free, scary literature during the upcoming spooky season.

In fact, the library, located at 234 Kensington Road, unveiled a list of some of the scarier books people can borrow for those chilly, autumn days.

"Check out a horror book for the spookiest month of the year," wrote the library.

"Looking for something to get your heart racing this spooky season? Check out a horror novel."

For more information and a complete list of available novels, click on this link or look below.

How To Survive A Horror Story

Mallory Arnold

When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of authors find themselves invited to the last will and testament reading, expecting a piece of his massive fortune for themselves. Each have their own unique connection to the literary icon, some known, some soon to be discovered.

We Love You, Bunny

Mona Awad

After publishing a novel that enrages her former MFA classmates, Samantha Heather Mackey is kidnapped by the eerie, cult-like Bunnies, who force her to hear their surreal origin story—an unsettling tale of monstrous creativity, deadly friendship and the violent magic at the heart of dark academia.

Bat Eater And Other Names For Cora Zeng

Kylie Lee Baker

Haunted by her sister’s murder and the whispered words ‘bat eater,’ Chinatown crime scene cleaner Cora Zeng confronts grief, paranoia and disturbing occurrences, including bat carcasses at crime scenes and bite marks that appear on her coffee table.

Cold Eternity

S. A. Barnes

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago…It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from.

The Possession Of Alba Diaz

Isabel Canas

In 1765, as plague ravages Zacatecas, Alba seeks refuge in her fiance’s remote mining estate but soon spirals into convulsions and darkness, forcing her into a dangerous alliance with his cousin Elias as demonic forces, buried secrets, and forbidden desire close in.

When The Wolf Comes Home

Nat Cassidy

An unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller where the darkest fears can become reality. One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy’s father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives.

Lucky Day

Chuck Tingle

One woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world. By the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus.

Exiles

Mason Coile

When a Mars colony mission arrives to find its setup crew of robots fractured and one missing, the astronauts must unravel conflicting accounts of what happened, in the new novel by the author of William.

Salt Bones

Jennifer Givhan

Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal has done her best to build a good life: She’s tried to forget the painful, unexplained disappearance of her sister, Elena. When another local girl goes missing, Mal plunges into a fresh yet familiar nightmare. As a desperate Mal hunts for answers, her search becomes increasingly tangled with inscrutable visions of a horse-headed woman, a local legend who Mal feels compelled to follow.

The Night Birds

Christopher Golden

An atmospheric horror novel by a New York Times best-selling author is set in a deteriorated, half-sunken freighter ship off the coast of Galveston, Texas.

Mayra

Nicky Gonzalez

Ingrid’s friend Mayra fled Hialeah, west of Miami, years ago for a Northeast college, but after Ingrid accepts Mayra’s sudden invitation to a getaway in the Everglades where Mayra’s boyfriend Benji is unexpectedly present, danger looms, and while exploring the mysterious house, Ingrid loses a sense of herself.

Overgrowth

Mira Grant

Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her.

Eat The Ones You Love

Sarah Maria Griffin

A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh. This is a story about possession, and monstrosity, and working retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow.

King Sorrow

Joe Hill

Blackmailed into stealing rare books, Arthur’s friends summon a dragon to save him, only to strike a deadly bargain that binds them to a terrifying choice: offer a yearly sacrifice or face King Sorrow’s wrath themselves.

Immaculate Conception

Ling Ling Huang

Desperate to stay close to her brilliant but distant best friend Mathilde, struggling artist Enka uses cutting-edge technology to absorb her bestie’s trauma, blurring their identities and setting off a chilling series of events with catastrophic consequences.

Killer On The Road, The Babysitter Lives

Stephen Graham Jones

A must-have collector’s item for horror fans, comprised of two novellas, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the new master of horror Stephen Graham Jones.

The Library At Hellebore

Cassandra Khaw

A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six who are hungry for something a little more diabolical.

Never Flinch

Stephen King

With a killer on a revenge mission, Buckeye City Police Detective Izzy Jaynes turns to friend Holly Gibney for help; meanwhile, a vigilante targets controversial feminist activist Kate McKay, and Holly is hired as bodyguard.

The Manor Of Dreams

Christina Li

A haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese-American families fighting to inherit it.

The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multi-generational gothic horror saga.

A Game In Yellow

Hailey Piper

A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you’ll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you the adrenaline rush of survivor’s euphoria, leading Carmen to fall into a game of lust at a nightmare’s edge. As the line blurs between the world Carmen knows and the one that she visits after reading from the play, she begins to desire more time in this other world no matter what horrors she brings back with her.

Play Nice

Rachel Harrison

Clio’s mother Alex lost custody of Clio and her sisters when Alex wrote a book saying their house was possessed; after Alex’s sudden death, the house passes to the sisters, and as the home makeover begins and Clio finally reads the book, the presence in the house becomes real and sinister.

Negative Images

Rebecca Schier-Akamelu

Anita Walsh, still reeling from her husband’s sudden death, finds herself haunted not only by grief, but his “Negative Image,” a new phenomenon where the deceased prey on those they loved in life, turning intimate memories into nightmares.

Midnight In Soap Lake

Matthew Sullivan

When a young boy runs through the desert into Abigail’s arms, her life becomes entwined with his and the questions surrounding the death of his mother, Esme. In Abigail’s search for answers, she unearths Esme’s tragic past, the town’s violent history and the secret magic locked in the lake her husband was sent there to study.

The Staircase In The Woods

Chuck Wendig

Twenty years after a childhood friend vanished on a mysterious staircase in the woods, a group of former high school friends reunites to uncover the truth, facing the dark secrets and horrors that await beyond the staircase.

This press release was produced by the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.