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Here are the Top 25 Most-requested Horror Titles from The Library

Ready for a spine-tingling tale or two in time for Halloween?

Here are the top 25 horror titles that Springfield-Greene County Library readers checked out most often this fall. Reserve your copy at thelibrary.org/catalog, then pick it up at your neighborhood branch, lock your doors and windows, slide under the covers and enjoy being scared!

"It," Stephen King

"Sleeping Beauties," Stephen King

"Gwendy's Button Box," Stephen King

"Carrie," Stephen King

"Doctor Sleep," Stephen King

"Salem’s Lot," Stephen King

"Bury Him Darkly," John Blackburn

"Horrorstor," Grady Hendrix

"Under the Dome," Stephen King

"Dark Entries," Robert Aickman

"The Running Man," Richard Bachman

"My Best Friend's Exorcism," Grady Hendrix

"Duma Key," Stephen King

"Hearts in Atlantis," Stephen King

"The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon," Stephen King

"Interview with the Vampire," Anne Rice

"MEG," Steve Alten

"Deadline," Mira Grant

"Elizabeth: A Novel of the Unnatural," Ken Greenhall

"Dead Ice," Laurell K. Hamilton

"Heart-shaped Box," Joe Hill

"The Haunting of Hill House," Shirley Jackson

"Different Seasons," Stephen King

"Everything’s Eventual, 14 Dark Tales," Stephen King

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