Halloween Reading List

Spooky season is here! Please enjoy this wickedly curated list of our favorite books that invoke the magic of October. Hopefully, you are already acquainted with many of the titles below. If not, well R.I.P. to your book budget, because these books are too gourd to be true. Happy scaring!

Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

Arthur Schnitzler, Dream Story

Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

David Pinner, Ritual

Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Edith Wharton, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

Fritz Leiber, The Conjure Wife

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories

Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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