We asked four local authors who specialize in the paranormal what bone-chilling books influenced them. Here are a few of their favorites:

Shirley Kennett (aka Dakota Banks)

"Phantoms" by Dean Koontz

"It" by Stephen King

"Let the Right One In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist

 

Heather Brewer

"Pet Sematary" by Stephen King

"Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury

"Cirque du Freak" and "Demonata" series by Darren Shan

 

John McFarland

Books by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, M.R. James and H.P. Lovecraft

"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

 

Angie Fox

"The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty

"World War Z" by Max Brooks

"Bullet" by Laurell K. Hamilton

 

By Sarah Bryan Miller