Halloween Books

Updated December 19, 2023
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Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
In nineteenth-century Starkfield, Massachusetts, a poor young farmer falls in love with the vivacious Mattie, cousin of his sickly, demanding wife, and starts a devastating chain of events. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text, an introduction discussing the author and the background of...
Kindred
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
Experience the novel that redefined American literature by the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower, MacArthur "Genius," and Nebula and Hugo award winner Selected by The Atlantic as one of the "most consequential novels of the past 100 years"...
The witches
Dahl, Roald
Paper Book
From the World's No. 1 Storyteller, The Witches is a children's classic that has captured young reader's imaginations for generations. This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the...
Coraline
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil.
Ebook
The original audiobook edition of the acclaimed novel, read by the author! The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel ever to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Nobody Owens is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place...
The turn of the screw
James, Henry
Paper Book
A chilling ghost story, wrought with tantalising ambiguity, the basis for the new Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor A Penguin Classic In what Henry James called a 'trap for the unwary', The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess...
It : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain...
Beloved
Morrison, Toni.
Ebook
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers....
Halloween : pagan ritual to party night
Rogers, Nicholas.
Paper Book
Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and...
Macbeth
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist   "To be able to read Macbeth with the eye of one of our profession's top linguists and scholars is a treat for the heart as well as the...
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein (The Complete Uncensored 1818 Edition)" is a seminal work that delves into the moral and philosophical quandaries of creation and consequence within the burgeoning industrial age. Written in a lyrical and Gothic style that blends Romanticism with early science fiction,...
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Ebook
Having deduced the double identity of Count Dracula, a wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
Ring
Suzuki, Kōji
Paper Book
Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist. The novel that inspired the cult Japanese movie and the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his...

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