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CRRL Picks: Startling Supernatural Thrillers

These books are filled with an eerie and unsettling atmosphere that will surely keep you on the edge of your seat.

Central Rappahannock Regional Library

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  • Halloween night, 1984. In Coventry, Massachusetts, trick-or-treaters walk door-to-door as the families behind the doors of Parmenter Road fracture and break. But mixed in with the kids of the neighborhood are four children who don't…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — FICTION Gol
  • To Anna's displeasure, the Pace family destination vacation to Italy has begun. Anna Pace is the only one in her family who doesn't fit in. Her twin brother, Benny, goes with the flow of everything and anything, while her older sister…
    BookNew York : Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — FICTION Tho
  • The Barretts are a run-of-the-mill suburban New England family until their 14-year-old daughter Marjorie begins to show signs of mental illness. But after doctors are unable to figure out what exactly is going on with her, the Barretts…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015. — FICTION Tre
  • Casey Fletcher is an actress just trying to escape... reality. Escape the new feeling of becoming suddenly widowed. Escape the streak of bad press she's been having. That's why she retreats to her family's lake house in Vermont, where she…
    Book[New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022] — FICTION Sag
  • Louise's parents have died. She's dreading going back to Charleston, South Carolina, and she doesn't want to leave her young daughter behind with her ex-husband. She definitely doesn't want to deal with family stuff, either--like her…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2023] — FICTION Hen
  • July, 1995. Newlyweds April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn on their way to a small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot a hitchhiker along the road, they decide to be good Samaritans and offer a ride. But…
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2024. — FICTION StJ
  • Investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects that Ashley Cordova--the daughter of the legendary and reclusive horror movie director, Stanislas Cordova--did not die of suicide in an abandon warehouse in lower Manhattan. For him, another…
    BookNew York : Random House, 2013. — FICTION Pes
  • Margaret and Hal buy a huge Victorian to make it a home of their own. But then the month of September comes. The walls begin to drip blood, and the ghosts of the former inhabitants appear, terrified of something in the basement. Margaret…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2023] — FICTION Orl
  • In West Hall, Vermont, disappearances and old legends always abound. One of the most mysterious legends is of Sara Harrison Shea, who was found dead in a field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. In the…
    eBookNew York : Doubleday, 2014. — FICTION McM