By Joan Carbone – Senior Youth Services Librarian, Lynnfield Public Library
If spooky tales are your thing, get ready to curl up with one of these frightfully good books for all ages!
Adult Books
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
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Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
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The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
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Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier
Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahemd Saadawi
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Blackwater by Jenannette Arroyo
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
The Sacrifice Box by Martin Stewart
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Jessica Spotswood & Tess Sharpe
The Initial Insult by Mandy McGinnis
The Missing Season by Gillian French
Children’s Fiction
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto by Adrianna Cuevas
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine
Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon
Ravenfall by Kayln Josephson
The Thirteenth Cat by May Downing Hahn
Beginning Chapter Books
Mister Shivers series by Max Brallier
The Ghost Tree by Natasha Deen
Erie Elementary series by Jack Chabert
Mrs. Patty is Batty by Dan Gutman
Notebook of Doom series by Troy Cummings
Picture Books
Substitute Creacher by Chris Gall
Pig the monster by Aaron Blabey
The good, the bad, and the spooky by Jory John
Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket
Leo : a ghost story by Mac Barnett
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
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Pete the Cat : Trick or Pete by James Dean
Monster Trouble by Lane Fredrickson
Halloween is Coming by Cal Everett
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The Haunted Pumpkin Patch by Christy Webster