Scary books and psychological thrillers

I don’t read thrillers - I watch them and then have nightmares. I don’t recommend it - stick to reading ?

@Jaxjacky if you liked mark billingham I recommend the books by Peter James novels featuring Roy Grace and Peter Robinson novels with DI Banks

I recommend Phil Rickman's series, set in a Herefordshire parish where Merrily Watkins is the vicar. They are moderately scary, but not terrifyingly so. You get to know the characters and follow the ups and downs of their lives. Merrily is a complex character, juggling her pastoral role, her parental responsibilities and her emotional involvement.

I avoid anything like that like the plague. Ever since i saw the film 'the Picture of Dorian Gray.
I think there's some truth in it which I don't want to know about.

I don't think anyone has mentioned Stephen King.
I'm sure it's because everyone has read at least some of his books.

O thanks for those everyone. I am off to ‘Libby’to see what I can find !

I agree that Stephen King has written scary novels. Right at the beginning of his career I read Salem's Lot. It was so scary that I had to finish the book during daylight hours, it was too frightening to read it after dark.

I like the Nicci French novels. Particularly the Frieda Klein Novels which should be read in order.

When I read The Shining years ago and during the daytime, I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure no one was there. The movie scared me and I won't watch it anymore.

I recently read Leave the World Behind. I don't remember the author. It's about a New York city couple who rent a vacation home along with their two teenage children and then some strange things happen. Really good and my daughter liked it, too.