Spooky Season: Books for Adults

Updated September 18, 2025
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Spooky Season: Books for Adults

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A season with the witch : the magic and mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
Ocker, J. W.
Paper Book
Salem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history-the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal town-and its season happens to be Halloween. Every October, this small city of 40...
The Djinn waits a hundred years
Khan, Shubnum
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE "Rich and swoony...an ambitious delight, with rich characters and some exceptionally lovely writing...This is the start of a major career." -- The New York Times Book Review AN INDIE NEXT PICK A LIBRARY...
Taaqtumi : an anthology of Arctic horror stories
Christopher, Neil
Paper Book
"Taaqtumi" is an Inuktitut word that means "in the dark"--and these spine-tingling horror stories by Northern writers show just how dangerous darkness can be. A family clinging to survival out on the tundra after a vicious zombie virus. A door that beckons, waiting to unleash the terror behind it...
The guests on South Battery.
White, Karen
Paper Book
With her extended maternity leave at its end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and beautiful twins to return to work, especially when she's awoken by a phone call with no voice on the other end-and the uneasy feeling that the ghostly apparitions that have stayed silent...
Yours cruelly, Elvira : memoirs of the mistress of the dark
Elvira
Paper Book
**Instant New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller** On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached...
Halloween party murder
Ebook
We Live Here Now : A Novel
Paper Book
Limited edition printing with stenciled edgesUSA TODAY BESTSELLER! "Atmospheric, immersive, surprising and as dark as wet tires." --New York Times Book Review "Brilliant. . . The twist completely blew my mind. I adored every page." --Lisa Jewell...
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