If you’ve had enough of the mostly terrible and seldom excellent horror flicks that invade your TV screen during Halloween, it’s time you get your chills from a book. Warren Adler, with the help of his staff and interns, has complied a list of 13 unlucky books that will satisfy your cravings for blood and creeps. Sharpen up your own scary reading list if you already have one. Let us know if we missed any titles or any books you want to resurrect from the grave and add to the list. Here’s the list in no particular order:

Novels:

 

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Misery by Stephen King

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

1984 by George Orwell

Short Stories:

The Catbird Seat by James Thurber

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Very Old man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Any of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories

Any of Ray Bradbury’s Stories

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Conner

The Body by Stephen King

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka