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Featured: Spooky Reads

Get ready for some thrills and chills while reading or watching these spooky tales! October 2025

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  • Tonight, twelve hundred expectant passengers have joined the booze-cruise between Sweden and Finland. The creaking old ship travels this same route, back and forth, every day of the year. But this trip is going to be different. In the middle of the…
    Book, 2018London : Jo Fletcher Books, 2018. — F STR
  • "Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in…
    Book, 2022New York, New York : Flatiron Books, 2022. — F REK
  • "It's Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are…
    Book, 2023New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — F GOL
  • What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there…
    Book, 2020New York, New York : Dutton, [2020] — F SAG
  • A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile…
    Book, 2022New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — F GOL
  • Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican…
    Book, 2022New York, New York : Berkley, [2022] — F CAN
  • If the dead can wake and walk among us, how can we know what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow…
    Book, 2024Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2024] — F VEE
  • To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: "Can I go inside your heart?" When horrifying incidents around the house signal that…
    Book, 2024New York : Del Rey, [2024] — F MAL
  • When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn't understand why she's the only one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at the police force dismiss…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2025. — F SEO
  • When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around…
    Book, 2023New York : Saga Press, [2023] — F CUT
  • With her life in disarray after her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure, Ji-won, plagued by horrifying yet enticing dreams of bloody rooms full of eyes, is overcome by hunger and rage that can only be sated by deceit, manipulation…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp., [2024] — F KIM
  • This must-read for horror fans, film buffs, and cemetery caretakers celebrates the chilling moments and outrageous plot points that make horror movies great -- and it just might keep you alive.
    Book, 2019Philadelphia, PA : Quirk Books, [2019] — 791.436164 GRA
  • In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life.…
    Book, 2012London : Hammer, 2012. — F DUN
  • At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin to occur, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. At the urging of a spiritualist patient, the employees attempt to help the…
    DVD, 1997Port Washington, NY : Koch Lorber Films, 1997, [2005]. — DVD F KIN
  • A terrifying, timeless legend comes to life in "The Curse of La Llorona. She is The Weeping Woman, and those who hear her death call in the night are doomed. She creeps in the shadows and preys on the children, desperate to replace her own. In…
    DVD, 2019New York, NY : Warner, [2019] — DVD CUR
  • Strange, Spooky and Supernatural

    Curious Tales of Fascinating People, Places and Things

    Browne, Mike,
    Strange, Spooky and Supernatural recounts stories of unusual and enigmatic people, places and things.
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario : Collins, [2024] — 001.94 BRO
  • Chloë Grace Moretz and Oscar nominee Julianne Moore star in this exhilarating reimagining of Stephen King's iconic best seller. After merciless taunting from classmates and abuse at the hand of her religious fanatic mother (Moore), Carrie's (Mortez)…
    DVD, 2013Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2013. — DVD CAR
  • Everybody is after the girl in the bog. One morning in a field in Connemara, a farmer unearths the body of a young woman, two thousand years old, preserved under layers of peat. Later that evening, she awakens in unfamiliar modern Ireland, ripping a…
    Book, 2024New York : Crooked Lane, 2024. — F DON
  • Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella, are about to be evicted from their apartment. Bad to worse in a heartbeat. Then…
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario : Random House Canada, 2023. — F DIM
  • In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the…
    Book, 2022London ; New York : Hogarth, [2022] — F ENR