A Bone-Chilling List of the 19 Best Horror Books

Thirty-something Colquitt and Walter Kennedy have charming, peaceful, normal lives in an Atlanta suburb, until construction starts on an undeveloped lot next door. The Kennedys watch as a sequence of different families move into the new house and, one by one, have their lives unraveled. There's no history of murder and no graves in the area, and yet, something is just wrong. That wrongness lingers until it threatens the entire neighborhood. This threat of the American Dream may be why Stephen King called Anne Rivers Siddons's "The House Next Door" ($14) one of the best scary novels of the 20th century.