Get ready to be toyed by a zombie doll in Holly Black's new spine-chilling novel, Doll Bones.

If the title lacks a little imagination, Peter Straub's lengthy novel is not short on creativity. Jumping back and forth between decades, Straub explains the horrific consequences of a series of ghost stories once shared by a group of companions. Fifty years later, not one of them has escaped the clutches of their past.

Bram Stoker's most famous character has had the life sucked out of him by a stream of feeble TV and film adaptations. For a really dark portrayal of this cultural icon get your teeth into the original. Not for fans of Twilight.