Spooky Season: Books for Adults

Updated September 25, 2024
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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
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...
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,...
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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