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Dracula by Bram Stoker
English lawyer Jonathan Harker could not have known that his simple business transaction with Count Dracula would initiate a horrifying plot. With Harker trapped in Transylvania, Dracula is free to spread his terror to England, and his sinister focus is locked on Harker’s own fiancée, Mina.
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Lestat: a vampire - but not the conventional undead, for Lestat is truly alive. In this story Lestat plunges from the lasciviousness of 18th century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory; from fin-de-siecle New Orleans to the frenetic 20th century world of rock superstardom. Lestat searches across time for the secret of his own dark immortality, all the while pursued by the living and the dead.
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Thousands of miles away from the small township of Salem's Lot, two terrified people still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. An eleven-year-old boy who never speaks and a man plagued by nightmares. A man who knows that soon he and the boy must return to Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Hill House stood abandoned, six miles off the road. Four people came to learn its secrets: Dr Montague, an occult scholar; Luke, a spendthrift heir; Theodora, escaping a love affair... and Eleanor. Eleanor was lonely and vulnerable - to friendship, love and laughter, and to the house. Hill House holds darkness within. Whatever walks there, walks alone.
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Rosemary and Guy move into The Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation. Rosemary's reservations about the neighbours, the Castavets, deepen as she learns she is pregnant and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets' circle is not what it seems.
The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
In December 1975, the Lutz family move into their new home in suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz know that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo murdered his family in the house, but the property and the price are too good to pass up. In less than a month, the entire Lutz family flee the house in terror.
The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
Howard’s other titles, Rewind and 56 Days have already been made into films and it’s likely this slick thriller won’t be far behind.
Jim Doyle is reading The Nothing Man, the true crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades earlier. With each turn of the page his rage grows because Jim is the Nothing Man. He knows how close Eve is to discovering the truth, he has no choice but to stop her.
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross Series) by James Patterson
The nation is in uproar when two celebrity kids are kidnapped, and one is found dead. For this high-profile case, the police enlist a detective with a PhD in psychology and an ambitious Secret Service agent. Yet they are no match for a killer who can switch from blood-crazed madness to clear-eyed sanity in an instant. Is he the victim of a multiple-personality disorder, or a brilliant, cold-blooded manipulator?
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. Outside looms a snowman, round its neck is his mother's scarf. When a second woman disappears, Inspector Harry Hole finds himself with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity.