Spooky season is finally here! Time to put on that costume, huddle around a campfire, and tell scary stories. May the frights begin this Halloween season with some spooky book recommendations . . .

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

What would you do if you found dead children with special abilities? For Jacob Portman, to find his grandfather’s killer—the mysterious creature lurking in the woods. Ever since he was little, Jacob’s grandfather would tell him of these peculiar children who could wield fire, become invisible, and levitate objects. Jacob finally learns the truth, but at what cost? Solve the mystery alongside Jacob in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

A simple pen stroke can seal your fate. When a young girl finds a book, she keeps it as sort of journal in which writes down everyone she hates. Mysteriously that same person disappears the next day after after having his name recorded in the book. How? Flipping to the page on which she wrote his name, she ends up finding a scary story involving that person. There are a lot of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Who will be next?

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

A boy in a glass case for millennia and two siblings wondering when he will awake in a world where faeries and humans live side by side . . . Hazel and Ben live in mysterious times, but when the boy in the case awakes it creates even more turmoil within their community. Will Hazel and Ben find this boy, or will the boy bring evil to The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black.