100 Must-Read Books Featuring Ghosts and Vampires
If you’re like me, you like books that scare you all year long, not just at Halloween. Luckily, there are thousands and thousands to choose from. And what is scarier than the supernatural? Things you can’t see haunting you house! Fanged creatures draining your blood! There are so many fun books featuring ghosts and vampires. Some aren’t even scary, but funny or serious instead. But they’re all great! So while this is a seasonally appropriate list, if you love ghosts and/or vampires, you should find new reads on this list to keep you eyeballs deep in books for the next several months.
Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn
Shutter by Courtney Alameda
The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
One Blood by Qwantu Amaru
Ghosts by César Aira
The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
Naomi’s Room by Jonathan Aycliffe
The Jumbies by Tracy Baptiste
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Long Lankin by by Lindsey Barraclough
Tamsin by Peter Beagle
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
Fledgling by Octavia Butler
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley
Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Good House by Tananarive Due
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Vlad by Carlos Fuentes
The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Little Sister Death by William Gay
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
Memoirs of the Damned by Yasir Hayat
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Dawn of the Vampire by William Hill
Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe
Already Dead by Charlie Huston
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Moonshine by Alaya Johnson
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano
‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Summer of the Ubume by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
The House by Bentley Little
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Necroscope by Brian Lumley
The Disappearance of Tejas Sharma by Manish Mahajan
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
In the Dark by Brandon Massey
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
The Elementals by Michael McDowell
Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo by Miyuki Miyabe
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono and Akihiro Yamada
The Quick by Lauren Owen
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Candlenight by Phil Rickman
Enter Night by Michael Rowe
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
Nathaniel by John Saul
I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
Children of the Night by Dan Simmons
Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh
The Light at the End by John Skipp and Craig Spector
Vampire$ by John Steakley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Hunger by Whitley Strieber
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot
The Dust of Wonderland by Lee Thomas
Haunted by Tamara Thorne
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi
Dark Lover by J. R. Ward
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
