Books for the Spooky Season
Books for the Spooky Season
The spooky season refers to the time of year leading up to Halloween, which is celebrated on October 31st. During this time, people often decorate their homes with spooky decorations such as jack-o'-lanterns, fake cobwebs, and skeletons. They also wear costumes and attend Halloween parties or go trick-or-treating. Many people enjoy watching horror movies or reading scary stories to get into the Halloween spirit. The spooky season is a fun and exciting time for those who enjoy the thrills and chills of all things spooky and supernatural.
Imagine this: As the sun sets and the shadows grow long, you curl up on your favorite armchair with a spooky book in hand. You pull a cozy blanket over your knees as a chill runs up your spine, setting the mood for the eerie tale you are about to read.
The pages rustle as you turn to the first chapter, and the words draw you into a world of ghouls, ghosts and things that go bump in the night. The flickering candle casts dancing shadows on the walls, enhancing the spooky atmosphere.
As you delve deeper into the story, your heart races and goosebumps prick your skin. You can feel the hairs on the back of your neck standing up, as you become completely absorbed in the spine-tingling narrative.
Outside, the wind howls and branches scrape against the window pane, adding to the eerie ambiance. You just can't resist turning the pages faster, eager to know how the story ends, but also dreading the horrifying conclusion.
Finally, as the last chapter draws to a close, you let out a sigh of relief and set the book down. You sit for a moment, taking in the atmospheric setting, before getting up and shaking off the spooky feeling. As you walk away, you can't help but feel a sense of satisfaction mixed with a lingering sense of unease.
But what book are you reading? Scroll down to find out…
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This is How We End Things by R.J. Jacobs
Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by RJ Jacobs, following a tight-knit group of graduate students studying the psychology of lying. When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group thought they knew about deception crumbles...
Campus is empty, a winter storm is blowing in, and someone is lurking in the shadows, waiting for their chance to kill again.
Forest, North Carolina. Under the instruction of enigmatic Professor Joe Lyons, five graduate students are studying the tedious science behind the acts of lying. But discovering the secrets of deception isn’t making any of the student’s more honest though. Instead, it’s making it easier for them to guard their own secrets – and they all have something to hide.
When a test goes awry and one of them is found dead, the students find themselves trapped by a snowstorm on an abandoned campus with a local detective on the case. As harbored secrets begin to break the surface, the graduates must find out who’s lying, who isn’t, and who may have been capable of committing murder. It turns out deception is even more dangerous than they thought…
A foreboding new dark academia thriller of deception and suspense, This is How We End Things follows the unraveling of a close group of students as they contend with what it means to lie, and be lied to.
Witches Get Stuff Done by Molly Harper
Witches Get Stuff Done, a delightful and hilarious rom-com infused with paranormal charm by author Molly Harper. With her signature wit and love for the supernatural, Harper invites readers into the enchanting world of Riley Everett, a new witch juggling her newfound witchy powers, a house full of ghosts, and verbal battles with the handsome local librarian.
Riley Everett has just inherited a Victorian haunted house and a host of newfound witchy abilities. Eager to learn about her magical heritage, she seeks out a coven in Starfall Point for guidance and sisterhood. Little did she expect to be drawn to the town's handsome head librarian, Edison Held, who is equally fascinated by Riley's magical journey—and her house.
As Riley and Edison's paths intertwine, sparks fly, and a charming romance blooms amidst the witty banter and mysteries of Starfall Point. Will Riley be able to balance her witchy responsibilities, a house full of ghosts, and a blossoming connection with Edison?
This charming rom-com offers a spellbinding love story, celebrates strong female friendships, and includes light mystery elements that will enchant readers from start to finish. Witches Get Stuff Done is the first installment in the Starfall Point series, offering readers a captivating new world to explore.
When Life Gives You Vampires by Gloria Duke
When Life Gives You Vampires is a paranormal Dumplin’ for adults—part a journey of body positivity, part a story about learning how to accept love at face value and part a hysterical rom-com told through a paranormal lens.
When Life Gives You Vampires masterfully addresses the issues many plus-size women experience, including myself—internalized sizeism. Lily accidentally gets turned into a vampire and must grapple with the fact that she lives in a diet-obsessed world with a body that will never age, never die and never change. She has to learn to love the body she has. And she does that with the help of none other than the man who turned her—it’s against vampire law. They strike a truce, fending off other vampires and her mother’s tone-deaf romance and diet advice.
Can she learn to love the (plus size) woman she’ll be…forever more?
The Only Purple House in Town by Ann Aguirre
The Only Purple House in Town by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Ann Aguirre is a fantastical LGBTQIA+ story of found family, love, and acceptance, perfect for readers of The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Iris has always been the disorganized, messy one in the family. No one is more surprised than she is when she inherits a peculiar Victorian mansion that needs a lot of TLC. She has grand plans to turn it into a Bed and Breakfast, but in order to cover her living expenses, she rents out the extra rooms and accidentally creates a haven for other magical lost souls.
Booksellers are calling it "fresh and unique" (Caitlin Vanorder, Bookmarks, NC) and bestselling authors are calling it "adorable romance we need right now." (Kristen Callihan, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Game On series)
And I can’t go without mentioning Ann’s Fix-It Witches Series as well!
Wings Once Cursed & Bound by Piper J. Drake
Wings Once Cursed & Bound, the first book in the Mythwoven series, is a bold and captivating fantasy that effortlessly blends modern magic with Thai and Southeeast Asian mythology, perfect for fans fans of Sarah J. Mass and Jennifer Armentrout.
The author says, “The story of มโนห์รา (romanized spelling: Manora) has always been my favorite. And really, I would love it if กินรี (kinnaree), bird people who live deep in the forests of the Himmapan, became every bit as recognizable to us today as werewolves or vampires or witches or fae.”
Peeraphan Rahttana, Thai bird princess known as The Kinnaree, has stepped into The Red Shoes and is now cursed to dance to her death unless Bennet Andrews—who represents a secret organization dedicated to locating and acquiring objects of myth and magic—is able to break it. If they don’t, she will be lost in darkness…forever.
When Bennet meets Peeraphan, it’s too late—she has already been trapped by the curse. When the shoes don’t seem to harm her, he realizes he’ll have to save her from creatures she never knew existed. He sweeps her into a world of myth and power…far beyond anything she ever imagined. There, she finds that magic exists in places she never dreamed—including deep within herself.
The Witches at the End of the World by Chelsea Iversen
Rage burns brighter than any spellfire...
Deep in the birchwoods of Norway, magic courses through the veins of two sisters. For years they've been alone, but sweet-tempered Kaija is tired of living in shadows and longs for a life filled with community, even if it means stifling her magic. But Minna is a witch through and through, with wrath always simmering just below the surface. Different as they may be, both will never forget the day they were driven from their village. The day their mother burned.
When Kaija leaves to pursue a new life, Minna is left alone in the darkness of the forest. Devastated and outraged at the betrayal, Minna casts a curse to punish those who took everything from her. What she doesn't realize is that this act will incite a deadly chain of events. Soon it will destroy everything, including the life Kaija has lovingly built. But once a witch's rage boils, regret means nothing—she can't take back what's already done.
Someone will have to burn.
