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October 24, 2025

Spooky Season reads & watches

Poetry

At Night by Lisa Ciccarello

Salt is for Curing by Sonya Vatomsky

Scarecrone by Melissa Broder

Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

Fiction

Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link

Cruddy by Lynda Barry

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Help the Elder Millennial in your life relive their childhood nightmares.

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

Painting Their Portraits in Winter by Myriam Gurba

The Illustrated Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, illustrated by Dame Darcy

Nonfiction

Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton

Initiated: Memoir of a Witch by Amanda Yates Garcia

Bruja: A Dreamoir by Wendy C. Ortiz

Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life by Joanna Ebenstein

White Magic by Elissa Washuta

TV Shows

Only Murders in the Building (mystery)

Gravity Falls (animation)

Over the Garden Wall (animation)

What We Do In the Shadows (comedy)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (drama)

All the Halloween episodes of “Bob’s Burgers” (animation)

All the Halloween episodes of “New Girl” (comedy)

All the Halloween episodes of “The Office” (comedy)

Every “Treehouse of Horror” episode of “The Simpsons” (animation)

The Twilight Zone

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