In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a…
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31 Days of Halloween: A Haunting Collection
Ready for a scary story (or two)? Try one of these chilling tales, perfect for the scary season (if you dare). All items are located in the Greenwich Library Digital Collection.


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The Night Country
a Hazel Wood Novel
- Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. However, during the night something strange has happened. Everything outside the camping grounds has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse…
- Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's magazine. Letter by letter, Bramber Winters reveals more of her strange, sheltered life in an institution on…
- As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage,…
- A wealthy woman suspects something is off about the luxurious complex she lives in . . . and she is right, in this riveting domestic-suspense novel from international bestselling author Alexandra Burt. Donna Pryor lives in the lap of luxury. She…
- A century after an early 20th-century New York community is intentionally flooded to redistribute water downstate, an inspector overseeing a dangerously neglected dam uncovers a prophecy that warns of additional sacrifices.
- Raised in isolation by her mother and Maeve on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpen’s life has revolved around training to fight a threat she’s never seen. More and more she feels the call of the mainland, and the…
- Shielded by his mother and sisters from his father’s obsessive construction of a haunted house attraction, young Noah considers an ultimate sacrifice when he chooses to acknowledge a monster that his family members have tried to ignore.
- The reunion of a missing, presumed dead woman and her three best friends leads to hair-raising horror and pure entertainment in Harrison's compulsively readable debut.
- Thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including In the Tall Grass; one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the 160; basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
- A gripping and unsettling novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it.
- The four visitors at Hill House-- some there for knowledge, others for adventure-- are unaware that the old mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.
- The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.
- Winterbourne Hall is a large, imposing manor in Cornwall, England. In 1947, Alice Miller is the family's newest governess, charged with taking care of two children, Constance and Edmund de Gray, who are still grieving the loss of their mother,…
- Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in…
- A retelling of the fate of the Donner Party, with a Walking Dead style twist.
- Here are four novellas—"Mr. Harrigan's Phone," "The Life of Chuck," "Rat," and "If It Bleeds"—guaranteed to take you to a dark place.
- Silently whisked away after his parents are murdered, Luke Ellis wakes up in a creepy place called the Institute, surrounded by kids like him with special gifts of telekinesis and telepathy that the sadistic staff want to exploit for the Institute's…
- An astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity.
- Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. Neither knows the other exists—until now. The author of Bird Box invites you into a world of secrets and chills in a coming-of-age story like no other.
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