Modern horror books to scare you silly

Proper horror – the sort that crawls under your skin and infects your dreams and leaves you double-taking your own shadow as you walk home at night – didn’t die with Bram Stoker, or Edgar Allen Poe or even HP Lovecraft.

The genre is alive and well - or should that be undead and terrifying? - meaning there are plenty of fresh hells for you to curl up with this Halloween.

Here are ten leave-the-lights-on modern horrors that will linger, uninvited, long after you’ve turned the last page.