Horror - April 2026 @SCCLDLike this list

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• The Haunting of William Thorn

  Alderson, Ben

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  How to Sell a Haunted House meets The Haunting of Hill House in t his split timeline queer romance, set against the backdrop of a haunted English manor from #1 bestselling author Ben Alderson.

• Temple Fall

  Boyle, R L.

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  Flynn and her friends plan to spend the night in Temple Fall, a mysterious house up on the moors with a strange history, but their planned night of drinking and teenage debauchery twists into a surreal nightmare. Suddenly forced into strange choices…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ghosts of Merry Hall

  Davey, Heather

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  In 2025, following the break-up of her marriage, cash-strapped single mother Nell moves into the crumbling Merry Hall with her teenage daughter, Fern, to housesit for its evasive owner. In the 1840s, showman Abel Wenham seduces Dolly, a talented…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House of Monstrous Women

  Fama, Daphne

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  Long orphaned after her father's political campaign ends in tragedy, she's all alone taking care of the family home while her older brother is off in Manila, where a revolution brews. When she receives a letter from her cherished childhood friend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mayra

  a Novel

  Gonzalez, Nicky

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  It's been years since Ingrid has heard from her childhood best friend, Mayra, a fearless rebel who fled their hometown of Miami for college in the Northeast. But when Mayra calls out of the blue to invite Ingrid to a weekend at a house in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Play Nice

  Harrison, Rachel, 1989-

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  Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so-glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio's parent's messy divorce, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Place Where They Buried Your Heart

  Henry, Christina, 1974-

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  A woman must confront the evil that has been terrorizing her street since she was a child in this gripping haunted house novel from the national bestselling author of The House That Horror Built and Good Girls Don't Die.

• 8114

  Hull, Joshua

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  "8114 is a terrifying horror novel investigating the mysterious death of a high school friend through an embattled podcast and hallucinatory hauntings at the abandoned house of his childhood.

• Best Offer Wins

  a Novel

  Kashino, Marisa

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  An insanely competitive housing market. A buyer pushed to the breaking point. How far would you go for the American Dream?

• The Manor of Dreams

  a Novel

  Li, Christina

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  Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Thing Between Us

  a Novel

  Moreno, Gus, 1985-

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  A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from newcomer Gus Moreno.

• The September House

  Orlando, Carissa

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  A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare, no matter the cost...That's what Margaret tells herself when the walls of her house start to drip blood every September.

• It Was Her House First

  Priest, Cherie

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  Venita Rost, a former silent film star, has stayed put for the last century-fuming and raging, luring investors and ambitious DIYers to their doom in her haunted home on the cliff. But her nemesis also remains: a once-famous detective she blames for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House of Splinters

  Purcell, Laura,

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  Not every house is a home... Belinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her anxious mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled. His death means she, her husband, Wilfred, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell Me I'm Worthless

  Rumfitt, Alison

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  Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience.

• On Sundays She Picked Flowers

  SCHOLFIELD, YAH YAH

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  When Judith Rice fled her childhood home, she thought she'd severed her abusive mother's hold on her. She didn't have a plan or destination, just a desperate need to escape. Drawn to the forests of southern Georgia, Jude finds shelter in a house as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Model Home

  Solomon, Rivers

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  The Maxwell siblings return to their childhood home in the Dallas suburbs after the shocking news of their parents' death. They return to find the house, and the family itself, haunted by strange, inexplicable terrors.

• Bad Things Happened in This Room

  Still, Marie (Fiction writer),

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  "In this haunting psychological horror, Willow's life has become a fever dream, her days lost in a twisted loop where time no longer flows as it should. Is she held captive by her husband Liam's iron rules--or by the insidious darkness of her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Haunting of Emily Grace

  Taylor, Elena (Novelist)

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  Drowning in grief, Emily Grace has lost everything: her home, her friends, her career. Only one lifeline remains--a job working for an eccentric millionaire. Along with his wife, he's been building a mansion on a secluded island surrounded by a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Underhistory

  Warren, Kaaron, 1965-

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  "People come to visit my home and I love to show them around. It's not the original house of course. That was destroyed the day my entire family died. But I don't think their ghosts know the difference." As Pera guides a family through her home on…Read moreRead more of this annotation