Six top horror titles featuring libraries or librarians

Lyndsie Manusos’s fiction has appeared in PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked in web production and content management. When she’s not nesting among her books and rough drafts, she’s chasing the baby while the dog watches in confused amusement. She lives with her family in a suburb of Indianapolis.

At Book Riot she tagged "great stories that either take place in a library or involve a library or a librarian," including:

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

This is another example of a story where the library is a key location. Jane Shoringfield knows she must marry to continue her work. She chooses the reclusive doctor, Augustine Lawrence, who agrees to her proposal. He makes her promise one thing in return: never visit his ancestral home, Lindridge Hall.

Yet on their wedding night, she becomes stranded there, and her new husband now seems…different. Without spoiling anything–and this story has a lot of surprises–it’s safe to say a lot of key moments and epiphanies take place in Lindridge Hall’s library. Jane is a curious, competent, and clever heroine, yet even she cannot predict the shock and horror this story brings by the end.

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Death of Jane Lawrence is among Casper Orr's seven top novels that celebrate autistic voices.

The Page 69 Test: The Death of Jane Lawrence.

--Marshal Zeringue