What To Read If You Love These Horror Movies

I don’t read a lot of horror books but I do love horror movies, all year round, not just during spooky season. So while I may not have read a ton of horror, here are the ones I would recommend if you loved or enjoyed any of these films.

Lights Out - The Watcher by A.M. Shine, this is definitely a book you should read with every single light in your house on and the curtains closed, like the movie lights out, this book made want to keep the lights ON when I went go to sleep.

Scream - I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones, this book is a slasher with a twist, you read from the slasher’s perspective which made this book very interesting to read. SGJ definitely has a way of getting your attention straight away and the way he writes had me oddly entranced.

The Exorcist - Come Closer by Sara Gran, this is a book that will have your mind in knots. full of delusion, confusion and you’ll find yourself wondering if the character is just losing her mind or if you are as well.

Friday the 13th - Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez, just like the movie this book is all about the gruesome slicing and dicing, if all you’re looking for is that classic, slasher feel then this is the book for you. Though it doesn’t take itself completely seriously there is a plotline that left me intrigued to read the sequel.

Nightmare on Elm Street - The Troop by Nick Cutter. Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. An inexplicable horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival that will pit the troop against the elements, the infected ... and one another.

Dead Silence - The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. The Woman In Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler. Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and most dreadfully--and for Kipps most tragically--The Woman In Black.

Paranormal Activity - The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike. This is the tale of a young married couple who harbor a dark secret and is packed with dread and terror, as they and their daughter move into a brand new apartment building built next to a graveyard. As strange and terrifying occurrences begin to pile up, people in the building start to move out one by one, until the young family is left alone with someone... or something... lurking in the basement.

The Conjuring - Hell House by Richard Matheson. Can any soul survive?
Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Two previous expeditions to investigate its secrets met with disaster, the participants destroyed by murder, suicide or insanity. Now a new investigation has been mounted - four strangers, each with his or her own reason for daring the unknown torments and temptations of the mansion...

The Babadook - The Goodhouse by Tananarive Due. Angela is moving past her grief and is finally ready to revisit the rural house she loved so much as a child. But back in Sacajawea, she discovers she hasn't been the only one to suffer a shocking loss. Since she left, there have been more senseless tragedies, and Angela wonders whether they are related somehow. Could the events be linked to a terrifying entity her grandmother battled in 1929? Did her teenage son, Corey, reawaken something that should have been left sleeping?

Midsommar - The Ritual by Adam Nevill. Lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, four university friends reunite on a hiking trip, they stumble across an isolated old house. Inside, they find the macabre remains of old rites and pagan sacrifices; ancient artefacts and unidentifiable bones. This place of dark ritual is home to a bestial predator that is still alive in the ancient forest. And now they’re the prey. As the four friends struggle for salvation, they discover that death doesn’t come easy among these ancient trees...