It’s the most wonderful time of the year - the leaves are turning, there are pumpkins for carving and the ghosts are coming out to play!
Halloween is just around the corner so I thought it was time for a new recommendations post. It’s the perfect time of year for reading about ghosts, witches, vampires or for just getting into an atmospheric book full of twists and turns. So here’s a list of classics, YA, short stories and general fiction to help you get into that spooky mood.
Happy Halloween everybody! 👻
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black *
Anna Dressed in Blood duology by Kendare Blake *
Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakely-Cartwright & David Leslie Johnson
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Hearts and Other Body Parts by Ira Bloom
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moira Fowley-Doyle
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman *
Coraline by Neil Gaiman *
The Chronicles of Alice duology by Christina Henry *
Lost Boy by Christina Henry *
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
The Mara Dyer trilogy by Michelle Hodkin *
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder *
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving *
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson *
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Immortal Rules series by Julie Kagawa *
The Shining by Stephen King
The Green Mile by Stephen King *
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie
Stalking Jack the Ripper series by Kerri Maniscalco
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
How To Hang A Witch by Adriana Mather
There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins *
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe *
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe *
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs *
Jackaby series by William Ritter
The Asylum series by Madeleine Roux *
The House of Furies duology by Madeleine Roux
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley *
The Night World series by LJ Smith *
Toil and Trouble, edited by Jessica Spotswood & Tess Sharpe
When My Heart Was Wicked by Tricia Stirling *
This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, edited by April Genevieve Tucholke
Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke *
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
The Monstrumologist series by Rick Yancey
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
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