4 Books That Would Make the Ultimate Creepy Campfire Story
A novel that even scared the crap out of master of horror Stephen King, The Troop is a tightly-written, old-school horror tale steeped in the Canadian wilderness that will have you keeping one eye on the woods and the other on your fellow campers. Check the batteries in your flashlight before reading.
You’d think by now that protagonists would learn to stop moving into old, creepy houses. Christopher Fowler reinvents the haunted house genre in a novel that will have you terrified of the dark and seeing silhouettes out of the corner of your eye long after you’ve finished.
The Creeping has all the building blocks of the perfect scary story: a small town urban legend, a sister trying to repress her memories of the past, and the rumour of something sinister lurking in the forest. This disturbing tale will prove to you that if you go hunting for monsters, you just might find one.
In the latest addition to the Bones series, Temperance Brennan investigates what she thinks to be a run of the mill murder only to be drawn into the clutches of a serial killer, cult, or possibly even something otherworldly. Make sure you know who is in the woods with you at night.