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

Grim Tidings (Ghosted, #2)
The Witches of Cambridge (The Witches of Cambridge, #1)
Trust Fall
A Time of Witches
Kiss Slay Replay
Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror
Big Bad Wolf (Maple Hollow, #1)
Free Falling (Sweetwater Peak, #2)
Blacktail
Mazywood
Doomsdate
Nightjars
Our Cut of Salt
She's a Doll
The Sisters of Crimson House
The Witch
The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)
Trust Fall
The Unknown
The Ex Hex (The Ex Hex, #1)
Incidents Around the House
Entities to Lovers
Grim Tidings (Ghosted, #2)
Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Trust No One
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Falling Like Leaves (Bramble Falls, #1)
Big Bad Wolf (Maple Hollow, #1)
Kiss Slay Replay
Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti BiswasIn the Lonely Hours by Shannon  MorganHer Little Flowers by Shannon  Morgan
Books to Read On or Around Halloween
338 books — 193 voters
Walking the Cat by Lorraine EvanoffThe Arbitrator by Max NowazIn a Holidaze by Christina LaurenStolen by D.L. MaddoxHenry the Queen’s Corgi by Georgie Crawley
Off the beaten path holiday books
4,909 books — 1,168 voters

The Halloween Tree by Ray BradburyDracula by Bram StokerSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Best Halloween Books
720 books — 754 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyInterview with the Vampire by Anne RiceHer Little Flowers by Shannon  MorganIn the Lonely Hours by Shannon  Morgan
Books for Halloween
329 books — 159 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 — 149 voters
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzWait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing HahnThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsCoraline by Neil Gaiman
Spooky books for Kids
243 books — 204 voters

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

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Lewis Spence
“ At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West Highlands charms were used to avert their influence. In the Isle of Man the gorse was set alight to keep them at a distance. In some parts of Ireland the house was sprinkled with holy water to ward off fairy influence. These are only a mere handful out of the large number of references available, but they seem to me to reveal an effort to avoid the attentions of d ...more ”
― Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins

Robert Bloch
“ Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this Eve to the grinning Unknown. A million doors had once been barred against the evil visitants, a million prayers mumbled, a million candles lit. There was something majestic about the idea, Henderson reflected. ”
― Robert Bloch, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

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