Spooky Season: Books for Adults

Updated September 25, 2024
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Haunted tales : classic stories of ghosts and the supernatural
Morton, Lisa
Paper Book
Following their acclaimed Ghost Stories and Weird Women, award-winning anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton present a new eclectic anthology of ghosty tales certain to haunt the reader long past the closing page. In ...
Lute
Thorne, Jennifer
Paper Book
Wicker Man meets Final Destination in Jennifer Thorne's atmospheric, unsettling folk horror novel about love, duty, and community. On the idyllic island of Lute, every seventh summer, seven people die. No more, no less. Lute and its inhabitants are...
Spooky Great Lakes : tales of hauntings, strange happenings, and other local lore
Schlosser, S. E.
Paper Book
Pull up a chair or gather 'round the campfire and get ready for thirty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Folklore traditions of the Great Lakes are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser and through...
Wildwood whispers
Reece, Willa
Paper Book
"A witchy story full of found family, lush nature, and small-town secrets." --Hester Fox "A magical, romantic tale about our essential connections to nature and to each other." --Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author
Haunted U.S. battlefields : ghosts, hauntings, and eerie events from America's fields of honor
Crain, Mary Beth
Paper Book
Do places where violent deaths occur somehow absorb the horror, only to conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? Many people believe that this can indeed happen; above all, in the context of that manmade phenomenon that reaps so great a toll in so short a time: War. Haunted U...
The library of the dead
Huchu, T. L.
Paper Book
Now a USA TODAY bestseller! Ilube Nommo Award 2022 for Best Novel "An absolute delight . . . kept me totally hooked." - Genevieve Cogman, bestselling author of The Invisible Library Sixth Sense meets Stranger Things<...
Certain dark things
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
From a critically-acclaimed novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia comesCertain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding and action-packed contemporary fantasy that turns vampire fiction on its head. Welcome to Mexico City...An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires... Domingo, a...
The spook in the stacks
Gates, Eva
Paper Book
Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina...
Muckross Abbey : and other stories
Murray, Sabina
Paper Book
"I binge-read this book, savoring the gothic creepiness at the heart of each tale. Packed with compelling, nuanced lives and the deaths that haunt them, each story is a séance--an invitation for unsettled spirits to let their presence be known, 'desperate...
Minnesota Hauntings: Ghost Stories from the Land of 10,000 Lakes
Jacobson, Ryan
Paper Book
What college is "Minnesota's most legendary haunted place"? Where did a ghost reportedly murder two victims? How has a haunted hutch predicted several people's deaths? This incomparable collection by Minnesota author Ryan Jacobson features only the state's scariest, most surprising ghost...
Diamond Head : a novel
Wong, Cecily
Paper Book
A sweeping debut spanning from China to Hawaii that follows four generations of a wealthy shipping family whose rise and decline is riddled with secrets and tragic love--from a young, powerful new voice in fiction. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Frank Leong, a fabulously wealthy...
Where ivy dares to grow
Thompson, Marielle
Paper Book
Mexican Gothic meets Outlander in this spellbinding, atmospheric timeslip debut novel, as a woman struggling with her mental health spends the winter with her cruel in-laws in their eerie, haunting manor that sweeps her back through time and into the arms of her fiance's mysterious,...
The Haunting of Las Lagrimas
Cleese, W.M.
Paper Book
Wakenhyrst meets du Maurier in South America, based on the author's time spent living in Brazil. Las Lágrimas takes the classic trope of a rattling English country house and transposes it to the wilds of Buenos Aires, for a fresh, updated take on the...
Snowblind
Golden, Christopher.
Paper Book
In Christopher Golden's first horror novel in more than a decade--a work reminiscent of early Stephen King--Snowblindupdates the ghost story for the modern age. The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards . . . but never one like this. Icy figures...
Hide : a novel
White, Kiersten
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this "marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end" (Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying)  "The suspenseful plot combines elements of...

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