5 Ways to Terrify Yourself

Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann

Perhaps you've never heard of Struwwelpeter. You're lucky. These cautionary tales have been unsettling readers since the nineteenth century.

Gothic curiosities, eerie vibes and a macabre visual edge is found here.

The Shining by Stephen King

Few horror novels understand the assignment quite like The Shining. The Overlook Hotel, beautiful and rotten at the core. A family’s winter caretaking job turns into a nightmare of ghosts, rage, addiction, and psychic terror. An immersive scare that gets colder with every chapter.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

Essential reading comes in the form of misty lanes, folklore, and a classic headless horseman. Capturing the charm of ghost stories told by candlelight, with Ichabod Crane’s fateful ride still standing as one of literature’s great frights.

World War Z by Max Brooks

Political tension, social collapse, and relentless undead dread. Credible source for the undead uprising.

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

Jay Anson’s account of the Lutz family’s terrifying experiences helped define the modern haunted-house story... strange noises, oppressive dread, and the sense that a dream home has turned on its owners.