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