Staff Picks

Kids: Spooky (But Not Too Scary) Stories

October Staff Picks List

  • The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything


  • The Haunted Library


  • Room on the Broom


  • Vampire Baby


  • How to Make Friends with a Ghost


  • The Haunted House Next Door


  • Never Kick a Ghost and Other Silly Chillers


  • Ghosts in the House!


  • Fox at Night


  • Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep


  • Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories


  • Things in the Basement


  • Creepy Crayon!


  • The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale


  • Leo: A Ghost Story


  • There’s a Ghost in this House


  • In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories


  • Los Gatos Black on Halloween


  • Hardly Haunted


Teens: YA Witchy Reads

October Staff Picks List

  • Hooky


  • The Wicked Deep


  • A Hunger of Thorns


  • Truthwitch


  • Season of the Bruja, Vol. 1


  • Witchy, Vol. 1


  • Curious Tides


  • The Spells We Cast


  • Over My Dead Body


  • The Witchery


  • Crumbs


  • The Ravens


  • When We Were Magic


  • All Our Hidden Gifts


  • How to Succeed in Witchcraft


  • Mamo


  • Toil and Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft


  • The Witch Boy


  • Night of the Witch


  • Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1


Adults: Horror Fiction

October Staff Picks List

  • This Wretched Valley


  • The Silent Companions


  • Anybody home?


  • Coyote Songs: A Barrio Noir


  • The Ballad of Black Tom


  • Bad Cree


  • The Graveyard Apartment


  • The Good House


  • Frankenstein in Baghdad


  • The Book of Accidents


  • The House That Horror Built


  • I Was a Teenage Slasher


  • The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires


  • The Ruins


  • A Head Full of Ghosts


  • The Salt Grows Heavy


  • Ghost Story


  • Bury Your Gays


  • The Last House on Needless Street


  • A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories