Halloween

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. ...more

The Book Witch
The Caretaker
Japanese Gothic
Molka
Dark Is When the Devil Comes
Wife Shaped Bodies
Odessa
These Familiar Walls
Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
The Seventh Sister
Bodies of Work
Aviary
The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own
You Did Nothing Wrong
Wolf Worm
The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)
The Caretaker
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
The Book Witch
First Witches Club
Play Nice
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Incidents Around the House
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Starling House
The Final Girl Support Group
How to Sell a Haunted House
Soul Searching (Sweetwater Peak, #1)
We Live Here Now
The Shining by Stephen  KingDracula by Bram StokerThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti BiswasThe Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan PoeCoraline by Neil Gaiman
Halloween Reads
400 books — 311 voters
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Woman in Black by Susan         HillJamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersSecrets of Rose Briar Hall by Kelsey James
Gothic Historical Fiction
295 books — 155 voters

Truly, Devious by Maureen JohnsonPeople Like Us by Dana  MelePrep School Confidential by Kara TaylorPrivate by Kate BrianThe Broken Girls by Simone St. James
Boarding School Mysteries
142 books — 95 voters
Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley CusickRemember Me by Christopher PikeThe Betrayal by R.L. StineBury Me Deep by Christopher PikeThe Baby-Sitter by R.L. Stine
'80s–'90s Young Adult Horror
124 books — 143 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Shining by Stephen  KingThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books to Read for Halloween
1,206 books — 1,257 voters
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzWait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing HahnThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanCoraline by Neil GaimanMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Spooky books for Kids
243 books — 202 voters

The Halloween Tree
The Ex Hex (The Ex Hex, #1)
Dracula
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Haunting of Hill House
Room on the Broom
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Coraline
The Graveyard Book
Dark Harvest
Scream For Us (Order of the Unseen, #0.5)

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Ray Bradbury
Nobody moved. Everybody sat in the dark cellar, suspended in the suddenly frozen task of this October game; the wind blew outside, banging the house, the smell of pumpkins and apples filled the room with smell of the objects in their fingers while one boy cried, “I'll go upstairs and look!” and he ran upstairs hopefully and out around the house, four times around the house, calling, “Marion, Marion, Marion!” over and over and at last coming slowly down the stairs into the waiting breathing cell ...more
Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight

Clive Barker
Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they'd been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved ...more
Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

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