Creepy booklist...

The Institute by Stephen King

Do we really need to sell you a new novel about Stephen King? One of King's favorite themes, children with extraordinary abilities such as telepathy and telekinesis, is picked up by the Institute and plunges them all together into a dark organization that aims to use them for its own nefarious purposes. Who are they, and what's going to happen to the kids who've been taken to the Back Half? To find out, you'll have to read the novel.

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Alicia Berenson, who ruined her seemingly perfect life, committed a shocking crime. However, it isn't what made her infamous. People would soon have forgotten the assassination had it not been for the fact that after committing it, Alicia declined to utter another word. Today, her paintings are skyrocketing in value, while the "silent patient" in a safe forensic unit sits uncommunicative.

Alex Michaelides's novel of twists and turns follows the psychotherapist who becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery of the acts of Alicia and the obsession that will push him to face his own secrets. "This New York Times bestseller was called Entertainment Weekly, "a blend of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy.

The Last by Hanna Jameson

Can't you decide whether to read a post-apocalyptic thriller or a cozy mystery about Agatha Christie's murder? Why not have both with Hanna Jameson's The Last, a novel in which the survivors of a nuclear war hole up in a Swiss hotel with a grim past of murders and suicides, only to find out that in their midst there is a murderer. How relevant is it to solve the mystery of the death of a young girl whose body is located in the hotel's water tank in the midst of global annihilation? The answer could mean life or death for those who survive, or it could mean the only way to hold on to what's left of their own humanity.

The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup

The hit show, The Killing, was written by Søren Sveistrup, and now he has turned his attention to a chilling Nordic thriller in prose form. A horrific serial killer stalks Copenhagen in The Chestnut Man, leaving behind homemade dolls of matchsticks and chestnuts at the scene of his crime. These dolls point investigators in the direction of a cold case involving the daughter of a government minister, who was abducted and killed.

A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney

In the marshes around Shimmer, Maryland, something is rising. A unusual flower called the saltmarsh orchid, somewhere between purple and pink, emits a distinctive hue. Searching for this color, generations of African American artists have come to Glow, blending it into everything from quilts to dolls to landscape paintings. Xavier Wentworth has arrived at Shimmer now. He looks for something, something he felt when he first saw a tapestry created as a child using the saltmarsh orchid hue, but he could find more than he negotiated in the marsh waiting for him.

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