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Must-read Halloween books for 2026 🎃🕸️

Words by Bloomsbury | Aug 26 2026

Looking for the best Halloween books of 2026? Explore our spooky season reading list, featuring gothic horror classics, gripping YA thrillers, and chilling new fiction and non-fiction.

Find unforgettable literary classics like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to the dark, twisty alleys of contemporary mysteries like A Case of Mice and Murder or an all knives out Three Crime Novels from Anthony Bourdain. 

If it's YA or non-fiction you crave, lose yourself in breathless young adult supernatural thrillers like Make Me a Monster or serial killer truths in The Blood Countess.

Fiction for adult readers

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Mothsblood
Lynn D. Jung
$28.80 RRP $32.00
Hardback +3 other formats
Honeysuckle
Bar Fridman-Tell
$26.09 RRP $28.99
Hardback +3 other formats
Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain
$21.60 RRP $24.00
Paperback +1 other formats
All Us Saints
Katherine Packert Burke
$26.09 RRP $28.99
Hardback +2 other formats
The Salt King
Natasha Pulley
$26.99 RRP $29.99
Hardback +2 other formats
A Case of Mice and Murder
Sally Smith
$17.09 RRP $18.99
Paperback +3 other formats
Beings
Ilana Masad
$26.09 RRP $28.99
Hardback +4 other formats
Bog Queen
Anna North
$26.09 RRP $28.99
Hardback +3 other formats
The Midnight Shift
Cheon Seon-Ran
$25.19 RRP $27.99
Hardback +3 other formats
The Watchers
A.M. Shine
$16.20 RRP $18.00
Paperback +2 other formats
Stay in the Light
A.M. Shine
$17.99 RRP $19.99
Paperback +3 other formats
What Hides in the Cellar
Graham Masterton
$17.99 RRP $19.99
Paperback +1 other formats

Non-fiction for adult readers

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The Blood Countess
Shelley Puhak
$29.69 RRP $32.99
Hardback +2 other formats
Are They Dead Yet?
Sam Roberts
$26.10 RRP $29.00
Hardback +2 other formats
Foraged Basketry
Delia Fian
$31.50 RRP $35.00
Hardback +2 other formats
Cunning Folk
Tabitha Stanmore
$26.99 RRP $29.99
Hardback +2 other formats
Witchy Stitching
Meghan Westfall
$19.80 RRP $22.00
Paperback +2 other formats
Typhoid Mary
Anthony Bourdain
$16.19 RRP $17.99
Paperback +2 other formats
Ghosted
Alice Vernon
$25.20 RRP $28.00
Hardback +4 other formats
V is for Venom
Kathryn Harkup
$25.20 RRP $28.00
Hardback +4 other formats
Making the Monster
Kathryn Harkup
$16.20 RRP $18.00
Paperback +2 other formats

Frighteningly good academic books

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Inside the World’s Haunted Libraries
Courtney M. Block
$32.35 RRP $35.95
Hardback +2 other formats
The Cure's Disintegration
Andi Harriman
$13.45 RRP $14.95
Paperback +2 other formats
Hitchcockian Thrillers
Stephen Rebello
$44.95 RRP $49.95
Hardback +2 other formats
The Exorcist
Mark Kermode
$14.35 RRP $15.95
Paperback +3 other formats
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Barry Keith Grant
$16.15 RRP $17.95
Paperback +2 other formats
Grave
Allison C. Meier
$13.45 RRP $14.95
Paperback +2 other formats
Night of the Living Dead
Ben Hervey
$14.35 RRP $15.95
Paperback +2 other formats
The Basque Witch-Hunt
Jan Machielsen
$31.50 RRP $35.00
Hardback +3 other formats
The Night of the Hunter
Simon Callow
$16.15 RRP $17.95
Paperback +3 other formats
Women, Beware the Devil
Lulu Raczka
$17.05 RRP $18.95
Paperback +2 other formats
Scream
Michael J. Seidlinger
$13.45 RRP $14.95
Paperback +2 other formats
Metallica's Metallica
David Masciotra
$13.45 RRP $14.95
Paperback +2 other formats
The Birds
Camille Paglia
$16.15 RRP $17.95
Paperback +2 other formats
The Devil
Philip C. Almond
$20.65 RRP $22.95
Paperback
Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft
John L. Steadman
$25.15 RRP $27.95
Paperback +3 other formats
100 American Horror Films
Barry Keith Grant
$25.15 RRP $27.95
Paperback +3 other formats
You Can't Kill the Boogeyman
Wayne Byrne
$29.65 RRP $32.95
Hardback +2 other formats
The Stepford Wives
Paul Moody
$16.15 RRP $17.95
Paperback +2 other formats
Horror on the Early Modern Stage
Hannah Korell
$99.00 RRP $110.00
Hardback +2 other formats
Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
Lindsay C. Watson
$31.45 RRP $34.95
Paperback +3 other formats

Thrillers & mysteries for young adults

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Tell the Ghosts I'm Gone
Kalynn Bayron
$18.89 RRP $20.99
Hardback +2 other formats
Your Boyfriend Needs an Exorcist
Justine Pucella Winans
$18.89 RRP $20.99
Hardback +2 other formats
Seven Deadly Thorns
Amber Hamilton
$22.49 RRP $24.99
Hardback +4 other formats
I Didn't Do It
Elle Gonzalez Rose
$18.89 RRP $20.99
Hardback +2 other formats
It's Only a Game
Kelsea Yu
$17.99 RRP $19.99
Hardback +2 other formats
They Bloom at Night
Trang Thanh Tran
$17.99 RRP $19.99
Hardback +4 other formats
Make Me a Monster
Kalynn Bayron
$13.49 RRP $14.99
Paperback
Devils Like Us
L.T. Thompson
$18.89 RRP $20.99
Hardback +2 other formats
How to Survive a Slasher
Justine Pucella Winans
$17.99 RRP $19.99
Hardback +3 other formats
She Is a Haunting
Trang Thanh Tran
$11.69 RRP $12.99
Paperback +3 other formats

Fright-free children's books

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Greta Grimsdark and the Normal New Neighbor
Haley Neil
$16.19 RRP $17.99
Hardback +3 other formats
Leroy Has Something to Say
Emily Rosenthal
$17.09 RRP $18.99
Hardback +1 other formats
Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel
Kalynn Bayron
$16.19 RRP $17.99
Hardback +3 other formats
Witch Cat
Lucy Rowland
$17.09 RRP $18.99
Hardback +3 other formats
Camp Monster
Kate Messner
$13.49 RRP $14.99
Hardback +1 other formats
Cat's Halloween
Alison Murray
$17.09 RRP $18.99
Hardback +2 other formats
Zombie and Brain Are Friends
Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic
$17.09 RRP $18.99
Hardback +2 other formats
The Otherwoods
Justine Pucella Winans
$8.99 RRP $9.99
Paperback +3 other formats
The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick
Larry Hayes
$9.89 RRP $10.99
Paperback +4 other formats
My Vampire vs. Your Werewolf
Paul Tobin
$8.99 RRP $9.99
Paperback +2 other formats

Horror classics from Alma

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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
$9.90 RRP $11.00
Paperback
Dracula
Bram Stoker
$10.80 RRP $12.00
Paperback
The Raven and Other Poems
Edgar Allan Poe
$9.00 RRP $10.00
Paperback
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
$7.20 RRP $8.00
Paperback
The Island of Dr Moreau
H.G. Wells
$9.90 RRP $11.00
Paperback
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
$9.90 RRP $11.00
Paperback

Games to play this Halloween

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Ofrenda
Orlando Sá
$60.00
Game
Cryptid
Hal Duncan
$45.00
Game
Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter
Martin Wallace
$85.00
Game
The Doomed
Chris McDowall
$31.50 RRP $35.00
Hardback +2 other formats
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Marco Maggi
$50.00
Game
Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse
Ash Barker
$27.00 RRP $30.00
Hardback +2 other formats

Chilling audiobooks for adults

Cunning Folk
Tabitha Stanmore
$22.00
Audiobook +2 other formats
Dead Air
William Elliott Hazelgrove
$27.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
Death Metal
T Coles
$22.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
The Exorcist
Mark Kermode
$18.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
Mothsblood
Lynn D. Jung
$27.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8
Jeff Wood
$22.00
Audiobook +4 other formats
Alien
Roger Luckhurst
$18.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
The Salt King
Natasha Pulley
$30.00
Audiobook +2 other formats
The Shining
Roger Luckhurst
$18.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
The Birds
Camille Paglia
$18.00
Audiobook
A Case of Mice and Murder
Sally Smith
$22.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
The Musical Lives of Charles Manson
Nicholas Tochka
$30.00
Audiobook +4 other formats
Attack of the Monster Musical
Adam Abraham
$21.00
Audiobook +4 other formats
The Midnight Shift
Cheon Seon-Ran
$22.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
Stay in the Light
A.M. Shine
$18.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd
Rick Pender
$27.00
Audiobook +3 other formats

Spooky audiobooks for kids

Zombie and Brain Are Friends
Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic
$-15.00 RRP $15.00
Audiobook +2 other formats
Greta Grimsdark and the Normal New Neighbor
Haley Neil
$-15.00 RRP $15.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel
Kalynn Bayron
$-15.00 RRP $15.00
Audiobook +3 other formats
Tell the Ghosts I'm Gone
Kalynn Bayron
$-3.00 RRP $27.00
Audiobook +2 other formats
Seven Deadly Thorns
Amber Hamilton
$-3.00 RRP $27.00
Audiobook +4 other formats
She Is a Haunting
Trang Thanh Tran
$-8.00 RRP $22.00
Audiobook +3 other formats

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