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Forget October and Halloween; winter is the perfect season to read these spine-tingling wintry horror books.

The nights are long. You’re staying bundled up with the shades drawn. You might be alone…or are you? Forget October and Halloween; it’s winter that’s the perfect season to read horror. Lucky for you, we’ve picked out eight spine-tingling wintry horror books for your reading pleasure below.

• Near the Bone by Christina Henry

• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

• The Hunger by Alma Katsu

• Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

• The Prey by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

• Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories

• Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes