Happy Halloween: A Horror Booklist

Happy Halloween, everyone! Is anyone wearing a costume this year? If you enjoy horror or thrillers, be sure to check out this booklist:

1. All These Sunken Souls : a black horror anthology edited by Circe Moskowitz: Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren’t sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love—and a lot of what they fear—through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying.

2. Dead Flip by Sara Farizan: Eighteen-year-olds Cori and Maz, once inseparable best friends, reunite to solve the mystery of what happened to their other friend Sam--who disappeared five years ago and has now returned, not having aged at all. 

3. The Getaway by Lamar Giles: Jay discovers that the mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.

4. Hollow by Shannon Watters: When Isabel “Izzy” Crane moves to Sleepy Hollow, the town made famous by—and obsessed with—Washington Irving’s legend of the Headless Horseman, she becomes friends with, then falls for, Vicki Van Tassel, and together with their prankster friend Croc Byun, the trio must break the Van Tassel family curse before Halloween night as well as uncover the mystery of the legendary Horseman of Sleepy Hollow—before it’s too late.

5. Infested : an MTV fear novel by Angel Luis Colón: In a race against time, seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Manny must rescue his family from a malevolent spirit targeting his apartment building in the Bronx. 

6. Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers: Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.

7. The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White: Shipped away in 1883 London to Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium after a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, 16-year-old autistic trans Silas Bell decides to expose the school’s darkest secrets to the world when the ghosts of missing students beg him for help.

8. The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson: When her classmates discover her biracial identity, Maddy, a white-passing senior, becomes the target of their bullying and discovers she possesses secret powers that pose a risk to all who wronged her.

9. What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell: The last thing they expect to come across is a giant, abandoned corn maze. But with a whole day of playing hooky unspooling before them, they make their second mistake. Or perhaps their third? Maybe even their fourth. Because Sadie and Logan have definitely entered this maze before. And again before that. They quickly realize they've not only entered this maze before, they've died in it too. A lot.

10. Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros: Created as an avenging golem in the image of a man's daughter who was killed by the Nazis, Vera, the Jew the Nazis cannot kill, is made for vengeance but begins to wonder if she's more than the wrath her creator infused within her.