Spooky Books Reading List

Listen to some great Halloween reads from thrillers to horror that will have you hearing things going bump in the night!


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The Halloween Store and other tales of All Hallows' Eve

Ronald Kelly

 Step into The Halloween Store for a seemingly normal shopping spree filled with holiday delights, but as you delve deeper, the atmosphere turns sinister, unveiling chilling stories and eerie secrets. Violence and strong language. 2023. Step into The Halloween Store for a seemingly normal shopping spree filled with holiday delights, but as you delve deeper, the atmosphere turns sinister, unveiling chilling stories and eerie secrets. Violence and strong language. 2023.

Book Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Digital Book Number: DB113866

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The Long Weekend: a novel

Gilly Macmillan

t Dark Fell Barn, three couples gather for a relaxing getaway. But when a chilling note threatens the lives of their husbands, their friendships unravel as secrets come to light.

Book Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Digital Book Number: DB113305

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The Nightmare Man

James Markert

Blackwood Mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book's release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life.

Book Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Digital Book Number: DB113280

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Halloween: the Official Movie Novelization

John Passarella

In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized a town on Halloween night. Forty years later, Myers is back after escaping a routine transfer and leaves behind a trail of bodies while searching for Laurie. Based on the 2018 film. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.

Book Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Digital Book Number: DB104085

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Howloween Murder

Laurien Berenson

As Halloween approaches, everyone at Howard Academy is looking forward to Harriet Bloom's famous marshmallow puffs. But when Harriet's elderly neighbor is found dead with one of her delicious delights in his hand, people wonder if Harriet modified her top-secret recipe with poison. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

Book Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Digital Book Number: DB103664

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The Burning Girls: a Novel

C. J. Tudor

Reverend Jack Brooks, single parent to a fourteen-year-old daughter, has been sent to minister to the parish of Chapel Croft. The welcome package of an exorcism kit with an ominous note throws them. They must uncover answers to secrets that are tens and hundreds of years old. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.

Book Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Digital Book Number: DB102286

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