Halloween Horror TBR For October (Or All Year Because There’s No Bad Time For Halloween!)

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I’m ready for Halloween. I’m always ready for Halloween but I’m extra ready right now so I’m going too share some Halloween lists to get even more ready, starting with this Halloween Horror TBR!

This is sort of my own Halloween horror TBR but also a list that you’re welcome to use for yourself, too! I’ve got a spooky fall TBR going up next so if you want a little closer to cozy than scary, stay tuned for that one.

That said, I haven’t read any of these yet (hence being on this Halloween TBR) which is kind of the point of this post. I don’t know if I’ll just make a new one next year or update this as I read things and switch out things that I haven’t read yet.

This Halloween Horror TBR is primarily horror with a few thrillers and some Nordic noir because it’s not Halloween without Nordic noir! You could also combine this with my Halloween Reading Challenge if you feel up to it.

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  • Shop my book lists here! You can find every book list I have on Bookshop.org (except my monthly round-ups) and I add everything I can but they occasionally won’t have some. I do occasionally add extras though. If any lists are empty, they’ll be filled in..eventually! Shop my bookshop.org book lists here.

Halloween Horror TBR shortlist

Don’t have too much time? Only want to know my top Halloween TBR books? That’s what the shortlist is for! These are my top three picks.

Halloween Horror TBR

Here it is, my Halloween Horror TBR, the perfect October TBR or fall TBR if you want more time. It’s got 15 scary, creepy, unsettling, and haunting books perfect for spooky season.

Kill Creek

The Finch House is nearly forgotten at the end of a dark road in the middle of the Kansas countryside.  Sam McGarver, a best-selling horror author, is invited to spend Halloween night in the house after it has been empty and overgrown for years. 

He is joined by three others that helped shape modern horror for a publicity stunt that soon turns to a fight for their lives.  The awakened entity will follow and torment them, trying to make it part of the Kill Creek Legacy.

The Year of the Witching

The Prophet’s word is law in Bethel which makes existing a blasphemy for Immanuelle Moore. Her family was cast into disgrace after her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity like all the other community women.

Soon, she is lured into the forbidden Darkwood, which happens to be where the first prophet chased and killed four powerful witches, surrounding Bethel after a mishap.

The spirits lurking there gave Immanuelle a gift that she never expected: her dead mother’s journal that reveals she once sought sanctuary herself in the wood. She is fascinated by the secrets in the journal and wants to know more about why her mother was consorting with witches. In the process she finds out dark truths about the Church and it’s history.

Into the Drowning Deep

The Atargatis set off to film a mockumentary in the Mariana Trench seven years ago. It was meant to bring ancient creatures of the sea to life but instead, it was lost at sea with everyone aboard. Some say it was a hoax, some say it was a tragedy.

Now, there is a new crew but they’re aim isn’t to entertain. Some want the truth, some want to validate their life’s work, and Victoria wants to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. They can only find the truth underwater and it comes with a price.

The Only Good Indians

This is the story of four Native American men and their families, haunted by a deadly event from their youth. Years later, they’re being tracked by an entity set on revenge. They’re left helpless while culture and traditions left behind catch up to them in a violent way.

The Boatman’s Daughter

Miranda Crabtree’s father was killed when she was a child. Since then, she’s managed to keep her head down while moving contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and protect and old witch and secret child from harm.

Human and supernatural forces are at work conspiring to disrupt Miranda’s life in the bayou. She’s set on a desperate and dangerous path when the preacher makes an unthinkable demand, forcing her to consider what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep loved ones safe.

The Graveyard Apartment

This young married couple has a dark secret as they move into a new apartment next to a graveyard. Strange things start happening and people move out one by one until the new family is left alone with something lurking in the basement.

The Fisherman

Abe and Dan are friends and widowers who have heard of the promises of Dutchman’s Creek, flowing from the Ashokan Reservoir. They dismiss the story but soon find themselves drawn into a story as old as the reservoir itself and they must now face all that they’ve lost.

The Family Plot

For just a check and a handshake, Chuck Dutton scores a massive family estate to sell through Music City Salvage, his family operation. His daughter Dahlia is in charge of the project and they set off for Chattanooga, Tennessee to the waiting Withrow House.The old cemetery was left out of the paperwork, but so were a lot of things about this strange property.

The Good House

Angela’s son committed suicide and, working to rebuild her law practice, she goes to the family home where it happened to find answers. Instead she finds an evil force driving locals to violence.

The Chestnut Man

A psychopath leaving behind a “chestnut man” made of matchsticks and two chestnuts is terrorizing Copenhagen. While investigating, they find a fingerprint of a government minister’s young daughter who was kidnapped and murdered a year ago.

No one is safe and two detectives have to put aside their differences to piece together the clues.

From Below

Years ago during a routine voyage, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace. A strange, garbled message was broadcast but nothing was ever found. Six years later the wreck is discovered more than three hundred miles from its intended course.

Cove and her team have been granted permission to dive in the wreck to film everything and uncover what really happened. But something dark and hungry watches from below and they must fight their way to freedom from the horrors below.

The Nesting

Tom Faraday is determined to finish his high-concept environmentally friendly home he’s building in Norway. It’s the same place he lost his wife, Aurelia, to suicide and he wants to honor her with their dream home.

Lexi takes a job as his nanny and falls in love his the two girls, especially Gaia. But something is off about the isolated home.

Muddy footprints appear inside, Aurelia’s diary appears in Lexi’s room, and Gaia keeps telling her about the Sad Lady. She begins to expect Aurelia didn’t kill herself and they’re all in danger of something far more sinister.

The Darkness

When a young Russian woman’s body washes up on the Icelandic shore, it’s quietly decided it was a suicide and the case is closed.

Over a year later Detective Huda Hermannsdottir is forced into retirement at 64 from the Reykjavik police, but dark memories from her past are threatening to come back and haunt her.

But before she leaves, she is given two weeks and the chance to solve and cold chase of her choice and she chooses the Russian girl who is hope for asylum was ended on the cold rocky shores.

She finds out another girl went missing at the same time and everyone seems determined to put the brakes on her investigation, but she will find the killer.

I’m Traveling Alone

A six-year-old girl is found hanging, lifeless, from a tree in a strange doll’s clothes with a note that says “I’m traveling alone.

Holger Munch is at the helm of the reopened special homicide unit. His first move is to persuade Mia Kruger, a brilliant but haunted investigator to join him. She returns to duty and knows it’s only the beginning when she spots the number one carved into the girl’s fingernail.

Does this have anything to do with the child who was abducted and never found six years ago or the reclusive religious community in the woods?

They realize it’s personal when Munch’s own six-year-old granddaughter goes missing, too.

The Lost Village

Alice, a documentary filmmaker, has always been obsessed with the disappearing residents of an old mining town, “The Lost Village.” The unanswered questions of the only two survivors of the tragedy have plagued her forever and now, with a crew, she is going to go find out what really happened.

Not long after setting up camp, weird things start to happen. Equipment breaks, people vanish, minds crack, and they realize one thing is for sure: they are not alone.

Have you read any of these? Which ones? What’s on your Halloween TBR?

Author: Megan Johnson

I'm Megan, a cheesehead at heart currently residing in the Sunshine State. You can probably find me reading, watching Forensic Files, or both.

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