Inspection (2019)

A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay

2015 · 286 pages · 4 reviews

Others: Mixed

"The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's bizarre outbursts and subsequent descent into madness. As their home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts plight for a reality television show."--Book jacket.

A New Kind of Clean

Iain Reid

2026 · 1 review

Others: Mixed

Haunting, philosophical horror for these modern times about what one aspiring actress is willing to give up in exchange for making her dreams come true—a groundbreaking collaboration from the author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things and the filmmaker of Our Father, the DevilMissy Djalo has been pounding the pavement for several years, running from audition to audition, juggling a dead-end security job, no closer to her dream of playing Helena in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. Since Missy’s perpetually broke and desperate for a change, a commercial audition for a cryptic company appears to be the light at the end of the tunnel—the big break she’s been waiting for. But as she journeys deeper into the experimental audition, boundaries are crossed, day becomes night, and the limits of reality and fantasy are increasingly blurred, all pushing Missy towards a critical decision.Told in spare, hypnotic prose, A New Kind of Clean is a surreal, philosophical suspense story about memory, identity, ambition, and reality; how the lines between what's real and what's not are becoming increasingly blurred; and how much we are willing to forfeit our individuality, our memories, our relationships, our identities, as we give ourselves over to the illusion and artifice of a virtual life that more closely mirrors our fantasies.

Bag of Bones

Stephen King

1998 · 548 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

Bag of Bones is a 1998 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writer's block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife. It won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. The book re-uses many basic plot elements of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which is directly referenced several times in the book's opening pages; however, the relation of these elements (including a wife who is dead as the book opens, her posthumous effect on future romance, a drowning, and house haunted by the memories of previous inhabitants) to the plot and characters is markedly different. When the paperback edition of Bag of Bones was published by Pocket Books on June 1, 1999 (ISBN 978-0671024239).

Becoming the Boogeyman

Richard Chizmar

2023 · 512 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

Bonus Room

Ben H. Winters

2023 · 1 review

Others: Negative

From New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author Ben H. Winters, this supernatural page-turner about a real-estate nightmare will make you think twice about your dream home. Alex and Susan’s new Brooklyn apartment seems too good to be true. Big kitchen, lots of light, a real bedroom for their little girl, even a studio for Susan to paint in—all for under $4,000 a month. Yes, the landlord is a little intense, and they’re not allowed in the basement, but who needs to go in the basement, right? But then Susan starts hearing mysterious noises, feeling crawling sensations on her skin and in her throat, and seeing bugs nobody else can see. The exterminator swears there are no bedbugs in the building—but does that mean they’re infested with something even worse? This creepy-crawly thriller about a horrifying home infestation will get all the way under your skin. Previously published in 2011 as Bedbugs .

Christine

Stephen King

1983 · 503 pages · 2 reviews

Others: Mostly negative

A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly.