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Thirteen books for the longest night of October: haunted houses, vampires, a possessed child, a village that is not what it seems. Start with a classic, finish with something that makes you check the lock.
The list runs from Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby and Stephen King's The Shining, Salem's Lot and Pet Sematary. It also finds room for Neil Gaiman's Coraline, for readers who like their fear with a button eye. Thirteen books, one night: pick one and turn the lights down.
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