Court of Nightmares
You crave the chilling thrill of the dark and unknown. This court is home to horror stories, thrillers, and all things that go bump in the night.
Scroll down to see which books the Book Oracle recommends for your shelf. May the reading fates guide you…
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At the Bottom of the Garden
Camilla Bruce
A murderess becomes the guardian of two very unusual girls in this mesmerizing gothic novel from acclaimed author Camilla Bruce.
“All the elegance and all the venom, like one of E. Nesbit’s supernatural stories served with a side of arsenic.”— Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girls Support Group and How to Sell a Haunted House
The Staircase in the Woods
Chuck Wendig
A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.
It Will Only Hurt for a Moment
Delilah S. Dawson
In this highly atmospheric thriller from the Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of The Violence, a young woman hopes to reinvent herself at an isolated artists’ colony . . . only to be drawn into its dark, twisted past.
Tiny Threads
Lilliam Rivera
In this gorgeously sinister novel of supernatural suspense, a young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of the glamorous world of fashion.
Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel
Kiersten White
A vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love in this epic and seductive gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.
Incidents Around the House
Josh Malerman
A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Katherine Arden
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
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