Nice, colourful book covers are all very well, but it's much more fun to do something dark, disturbing and distinctly creepy.
We've found 25 book covers that are ever-so-slightly sinister and unsettling. Some of them are obviously strange, others require a little more attention before that sense of unease starts to drift across you.
And all this before you even start reading; you'll be a mess by the end of the book.
Also see or list of the 30 scariest books ever written
The Vivisector
Author: Patrick White
Year: 1970
The Replacement
Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Year: 2011
Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Year: 1897
American Psycho
Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Year: 1991
The Brief History Of The Dead
Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Year: 2006
The Millstone
Author: Margaret Drabble
Year: 1965
Carrie
Author: Stephen King
Year: 1974
The Exorcist
Author: William Peter Blatty
Year: 1971
Haunted
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Year: 2005
Pick Your Victim
Author: Pat McGerr
Year: 1946
The Fall of the House of Usher
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Year: 1839
A Wolf at the Table
Author: Augusten Burroughs
Year: 2008
Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Year: 1866
Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy
Author: R.L. Stine
Year: 1993
Ubik
Author: Philip K. Dick
Year: 1969
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Year: 2011
The House of Dead Maids
Author: Clare B. Dunkle
Year: 2010
1984
Author: George Orwell
Year: 1949
Jaws
Author: Peter Benchley
Year: 1974
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Author: Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
Year: 2009
Sleepless
Author: Thomas Fahy
Year: 2010
They Thirst
Author: Robert R. McCammon
Year: 1981
Black Eyed Children
Author: David Weatherly
Year: 2012
Edith & Big Bad Bill
Author: Dare Wright
Year: 1968
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die
Author: April Henry
Year: 2013
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