In honor of Friday the 13th, I’ve put together a list of ten* scary/freaky/eerie books appropriate for reading today, complete with 13 word** blurbs on each:
It by Stephen King – It gets uncomfortably weird, and it’s mega long, but man, is it great.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – Has one of the greatest twists I’ve read. Totally didn’t see it coming.
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin – Outside of Stephen King, I’ve never enjoyed a horror book more. Superb stuff.
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris– The equal of the movie, with a heaping helping of Hannibal to savor.
Batman: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder – Batman faces a faceless Joker with a literal face mask for a face.
Pet Sematary by Stephen King – One of King’s best. Raising the dead goes about as well as this.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess – I’ll bet you’ve never put anything quite like this book in your gulliver.
Horns by Joe Hill – Others compulsively tell a man the ugly truth, like dark, reverse Liar Liar.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman – Everyone could use more Gaiman magic. He keeps it real through the unreal.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy – A story as unsettling as its author’s flagrant disregard for punctuation and grammar.
*Why not thirteen? Because that would be unlucky, of course.
**D’oh
