Horror Fiction with Female Characters

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Horror
  
• Suspense and mystery
• Romance
• Female Characters

Dark Debts
By Karen Hall
F HALL
When her former boyfriend commits suicide after killing a Los Angeles liquor store clerk, Randa, a journalist for an alternative newspaper, launches a search for his brother, a sexy, liberal Jesuit priest exiled to Georgia because of his belief in possession.

Haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson
YA F JACKSON
Four paranormal seekers plan to spend the summer at Hill House looking for evidence of a truly haunted house: Dr. Montague the scholar who gathered the group, Eleanor a lonely woman who had a poltergeist experience as a child, Theodora a free spirited psychic, and Luke the future heir to Hill House. Together they get what they hope for, but at what price?

The Turn of the Screw
By Henry James
F JAMES
The story unfolds with the arrival of a new governess at a remote country estate. She has been hired by the uncle of two young orphans to take complete charge of the children's lives and upbringing. Her first peaceful weeks are disturbed by the apparition of the ghosts of two evil servants who once served in the house.

The Passion
By Donna Boyd
F BOYD
After the violent murder of three werewolves in Manhattan, Alexander Devoncroix realizes he must tell his son, heir to his leadership of the pack, the story of his disastrous love for a human. In a flashback to 1897 Paris, 28-year-old Tessa LeGuerre attempts to kill Alexander in revenge for his having let her father die on an expedition in the American wilderness. She fails and falls in love with Alexander, while he introduces her to the world of werewolves, who, neither half-wolf nor half-human, are superior animals who designed the pyramids, live hundred of years and secretly control human civilization.