Spooky Books for Spooky Season

We’ve got a selection of Halloween, horror and slightly spooky reads available in the shop that are perfect for all ages in the month of October.

In this blog we’ll talk you through some of our favourites, our most anticipated reads and some exciting new releases:

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

Pub. 2025

This is a folk horror, coming-of-age story, with a side of cannibalism. Margot lives with her mama in a cottage, and mama has a taste for the strays that wander to their front door. This book is full of metaphors, with themes of love, familial relationships and female rage, and is anything but your average horror.

 

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

Pub. 2022

This can’t be a horror list without including the King of Horror at least once. In his most recent standalone novel, King stitches together fantasy and horror to create a story about a boy with a key to a fantastical land. In this land, good and evil are at war, and the stakes are high for both their world and ours.

 

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Pub. 2005

It’s been twenty years since this love story between a high schooler and vampire turned millennial teenagers vampire-crazy (and we can’t forget the werewolves either)! With some grizzly murders happening around town, Edward Cullen and his vampire family are just as keen to find out what’s happening as the humans. Because they’re not like other vampires, they’re “vegetarian” (don’t feed on humans), but these murders are seeming very vampiric. Alongside this, Bella Swan has just moved to town, and Edward can’t seem to stay away from her, risking both her life and his own.

 

Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

Pub. 2023

This is a gothic, young adult, LGBTQ+ story about a town cursed by a witch who appears once a generation to claim a companion. Lost daughter of the duke, Mina, doesn’t feel like she has much to live for, so when the witch appears to claim her next companion, Mina offers to go with her. This is a lyrical, gothic tale which explores loneliness and love.

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Pub. 1971

We had to include at least one horror classic on the list! This book follows the demonic possession of a previously sweet child, Regan, who suddenly becomes afflicted with convulsions and fits of foul-mouthed tirades towards her mother. With medical professionals unable to figure out what’s happening to the child, her mother turns to the church for help and an exorcist is called in.

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

Pub. 2024

When Cordelia and her evil, sorceress mother have to run away from their village, they end up knocking on the door of a wealthy older man with an unwed squire. Cordelia’s mother comes up with a plan to trick the squire into marrying her, but his sister, Hester, has other plans. She can see the sorceress for what she is and wants to protect her brother, and save sweet Cordelia in the process.

Paddington’s Trick or Treat by Michael Bond

Pub. 2024

A perfect story to get into the Halloween spirit with the little ones. Paddington is very excited about Halloween! He’s going to go Trick or Treating with Jonathan and Judy and then the Brown’s are having a family party! But their plans are ruined when their mean next door neighbour, Mr Curry, invites himself to the party. Thankfully, Paddington has a trick up his sleeve to get the party back on track!