Six top horror books 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 six "great stories that either take place in a library or involve a library or a librarian," including:

The Parliament by Aimee Pokwatka

Like The Library at Hellebore, a group of characters is trapped in a library. But instead of a hoard of hungry faculty members, teens and library goers have to fend off a parliament of murderous owls. Murderous! Owls! I mean, look at that cover. I was hooked from the start.

This novel has strong Hitchcockian The Birds vibes, which is one of my favorite horror movies ever. When a murderous parliament of owls descends on Madeleine Purdy’s town library, she and other library visitors must find a way to survive and escape without getting torn apart.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Page 69 Test: The Parliament.

--Marshal Zeringue