Cherie Priest's Toll does not strictly involve the Three Billy Goats Gruff and a troll but it could.

The novel details a small town in a swamp that has a problem with people going missing.  Two old ladies may know the secret, or they may not.  

What makes the novel work is the atmosphere which propels the story forward.   The story is pretty straight forward, but the book does leave the possibility open for more stories set in the same place.  (I want more about the doll house to be honest).

Libby and May met when they were in the 5th grade and became fast friends. Together they created a comic called "I am Princess X." After Libby is killed in an auto accident, May gives up on the comic and Princess X is no more.
Fast forward about 3 years and May is now 16/17 and she notices Princess X everywhere (a sticker on a window, graffiti). Does this mean Libby is alive? Turns out there was more to the accident. And there are clues everywhere May looks. She enlists a boy in her building (who believes himself to be a computer hacker).
I did like the mix between traditional story/comic-graphic novel. I recognize May's a teen, but there were some things I thought she did/said/should have picked up on (like thinking her computer doesn't work- when it just needed to be plugged in to charge, really?!). This was a decent mystery and a good cast of characters. There was no romance in this one. Very much about friendships.
I read this for Romance-opoly Post Office moon track

My favorite horror reads are ones that involve some kind of mystery, one that gets more horrifying the more you unravel it. Ghost stories do that for me: mysterious deaths, haunted asylums, that one spirit that keeps trying to tell you something.

I'll make this largely a visual post, since it's all about judging a book by its cover ;)

As I mentioned in the previous question, I love ghosts, especially the vengeful kind. I also like ghost stories where the ghost may or may not be a figment of someone's imagination.

My top pick for ghost story (and it's really so much more than a ghost story) is Beloved, by Toni Morrison, which starts with the line "124 was spiteful."