By Cuong Nguyen, Information Assistant, Kings Park Library

Get in the spooky spirit of the season with these horror fiction stories crafted by macabre minds from around the globe. 

• Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Tr. Ebba Segerberg
• A body drained of all blood is discovered in Blackeberg, Sweden, coinciding with the arrival of a new neighbor. 
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang, Tr. Deborah Smith
• Afflicted by dreams of animal violence, Yeong-hye abruptly stops eating meat.  
• Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, Tr. Megan McDowell
• The collection of strange, unsettling and creepy short stories reads like a David Lynch movie.
• The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike, Tr. Deborah Boliver Boehm
• A young couple and their daughter move into an apartment where something lurks in the basement
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, Tr. Jonathan Wright
• War-torn corpses are stitched together by Hadi for proper burial, until one such body comes to life.
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• Four Native Americans went hunting as kids. Years later, something hunts them.
• Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
• Someone is leaving behind their victims' bodies fused with those of animals in abandoned buildings.