This past October, I recommended some eerie books––one per day, in the hope of getting everyone in a heebie-jeebie frame of mind, and distract us from the dire news cycle. Here is the complete list, plus a few bonus suggestions (because, you know, too many books and not enough days of the month).

1. Rizzio by Denis Mina
2. The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
3. Every Day is Mother’s Day and Vacant Possession by Hillary Mantel
4. Grimoire: New Scottish Folk Tales by Robin Robertson
5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
6. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
7. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
8. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
9. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McGrath
10. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
11. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
12. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
13. Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
14. The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
15. Cracks by Sheila Kohler
16. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Echo
17. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
18. The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
19. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
20. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson
21. Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
22. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
23. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
24. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
25. Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead
26. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
27. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
28. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
29. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
30. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
31. Dracula by Bram Stoker

And some bonus suggestions, in no particular order: The Goth Girl books by Chris Riddell, His Bloody Project by Graham Macrae Burnett, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd, An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge, The Collector by John Fowles, The End of Alice by A. M. Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale, A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell, The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan, The Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Everything Under by Daisy Johnson, Swimming Home by Deborah Levy, The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark, The People’s Act of Love by James Meek …