Twelve creepy small town horror titles

Richard Chizmar is the author of New York Times bestselling novels Chasing the Boogeyman, Becoming the Boogeyman, Memorials, and Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting (cowritten with son, W.H. Chizmar), and coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Times bestselling novella Gwendy’s Button Box, the novel Gwendy’s Final Task, and the solo novella Gwendy’s Magic Feather. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, most recently, the bestselling anthology, The End of The World as We Know It: New Stories of Stephen King’s The Stand.

Chizmar's new novel is Killing the Boogeyman.

At People magazine the author tagged twelve top creepy small town horror novels, including:

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge

With echoes of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Stephen King’s The Long Walk, Dark Harvest serves up a tasty Halloween treat — or is it a trick? — for all seasons. Set in a small midwestern farming town in 1963, Partridge gives us the story of the October Boy and a strange and violent All Hallow’s Eve tradition. If you’re thinking it sounds like a modern-day Ray Bradbury tale, you would be right.

Read about the other novels on the list.

The Page 99 Test: Dark Harvest.

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