Spooky Books for Spooky Season!

October is the month of Halloween!!! Here in Sri Lanka, we don’t celebrate Halloween much, but there are so much creepy books that are most suitable to read for Halloween.

Here are my personal favorites which I believe is suitable for Halloween

1. The Sundown Motel – Simone St James

I have already reviewed this book but this is one of the books that made me spooked out! Perfect for Halloween.

In the 1980’s Viv Delaney moved to New York and started working in the motel, The Sundown Motel. But she feels something haunting and sinister is going on inside the motel and on one night, she mysteriously disappeared. Now present day, her niece, Carly also moved to the same place where her aunt lived and started working in the same motel her aunt used to work. And she too started sensing something haunting and foreboding in the motel…

2. The Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno Garcia

This is a weird horror and a bit of fantasy that will make you scared and intrigued at the same time. Noemi receives a frantic letter from her cousin, Catalina and she moved to a remote mansion in the Mexican countryside to see what has happened to her cousin. But the mansion has some weird and dark secrets lurking around with unfriendly family members and staff.

3. Lock Every Door – Riley Sager

This is the first book I have read of Riley Sager and I instantly fell in love with this book. Here’s the story–you are broke and you are supposed to house sit a luxurious apartment rent free. The Catch? No disturbing the neighbors, no visitors and no leaving the apartment at night.

Too creepy right?

4. The Broken Girls – Simone St. James

Here’s the thing, if you want to read books about horror, Simone St James is the best.

Though personally I like the Sundown Motel than this one, still the Broken Girls gave me a creeps–a house for delinquent girls in the 1950’s, with a dark history, and the present day focuses on Fiona Sheridan whose sister went missing near an abandoned house that was used to house for delinquent girls. The atmosphere is dark and tense.