By William March

 “The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before (From the Publisher).”

By Stephen King

An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.

By Bethany C. Morrow
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Being faced with her home’s foreclosure, one of only two black girls in a wealthy gated community manipulates her way into her friends’ household where she starts noticing strange things happening and her suspicion of the seemingly–perfect family grows.

By Stephanie Wrobel

Enduring decades of serious illness as a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy before exposing her mother’s behavior, Rose Gold invites her unrepentant mother back into her life to secretly settle the score.

By Alan Moore

In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.

By Frank Peretti

Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.

By Dan Wells
Series I Am Not a Serial Killer

John Wayne Cheever keeps his obsession with serial killers in check by a set of rigid rules that he lives by, hoping to the prevent himself from committing murder.

By Dean Koontz

A young woman staying as a guest in a Napa Valley farmhouse becomes trapped in a fight for survival with a self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer", and races to warn his next intended victim.

By Stephen King
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Novelist Paul Sheldon wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding that he bring his heroine back to life.

By Dean Koontz
Series Odd Thomas Novels
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

“Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm (From the Publisher).”

By Stephen King

When a young boy's body is found in the town park, Detective Ralph Anderson finds the evidence and the witnesses all pointing to one of the city's most popular citizens.

By Patrick Süskind

Born without a scent, Jean-Baptiste spends his life pursuing the perfect perfume and investigates all methods of making it.

By Thomas Harris
Series Hannibal Lecter Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Will Graham's unusual, fearful ability to project himself into the minds of psychopaths puts him on the trail of Francis Dolorhyde, whose bizarre and bloody murders of two suburban families have been triggered by his viewing of a William Blake watercolor.

Became the movie: Red Dragon and the TV show: Hannibal.

By Thomas Harris
Series Hannibal Lecter Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

FBI Academy trainee Clarice Starling hopes that Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a criminally insane psychiatrist imprisoned in a Boston hospital, can lead her to the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill.

By Robert Kirkman
Series The Walking Dead
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family isstill alive and endures many horrors along the way.

Became the TV show: The Walking Dead.

By Robert Kirkman
Series Walking Dead Trilogy

In the Walking Dead universe, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury. The world will finally understand what drove Philip Blake to become....The Governor.