Ten Spooky Ghost Stories for Fall

Fall is finally here, and Halloween is only two weeks away! If you enjoy spooky ghost stories, check out any of these titles below:

1. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas: Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.

2. Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury: Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around. 

3. Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith: When strange things start happening at night near a new, supposedly haunted, rural attraction, including a creepy man stalking young Indigenous women, Hughie Wolfe and his friends set out to discover the truth in order to protect themselves and their community.

4. If I Have to be Haunted by Miranda Sun: Reluctantly agreeing to resurrect her nemesis, Zach Coleson, Cara Tang, gifted with ghost-speaking powers, enters a dangerous world of monsters and magic where she must depend on Zach to survive and discovers she might not hate him so much after all. 

5. Raising the Horseman by Serena Valentino: Wanting nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow’s superstitious celebrations after receiving her ancestor’s diary, Kat van Tassel must uncover a 200-year-old secret that is shockingly linked to her own life in time to protect what she truly loves.

6. Saint Juniper's Folly by Alex Crespo: Wandering into Saint Juniper's Folly, the nearby woods, Theo stumbles on a haunted house with a boy physically trapped inside and turns to witch Taylor for help to free him, forcing them all to face their own demons to escape the Folly's shadows.

7. She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran: Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyen is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.

8. The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass: When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game. 

9. Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry: Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house. 

10. Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour: A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.