Fall is here, which means that spooky season is just around the corner. The leaves are turning colors, and there is a chill in the air. It’s a good time to get a blanket, a cup of tea, and a book full of horror, mystery, and thrills. Whether you enjoy scary books during the season or year round, this list has plenty of titles to keep you reading. See Fun Reading for Halloween: 9 Picture Books for the little ones.
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1. The Dead Will Never Haunt Me
Stephanie Kuehn | Scholastic | October 1, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
2. Ruin Road
Lamar Giles | Scholastic | September 17, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
3. Immortal Dark
Tigest Girma | Little, Brown BYR | September 3, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
4. The Blonde Dies First
Joelle Wellington | Simon & Schuster BYR | July 30, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
5. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power
Terry J. Benton-Walker (ed.) | Tor Teen | July 16, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
6. Sleep Like Death
Kalynn Bayron | Bloomsbury | June 25, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
7. It Waits in the Forest
Sarah Dass | Rick Riordan Presents | May 14, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
8. Blood at the Root
Ladarrion Williams | Labyrinth Road | May 7, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
9. The Poisons We Drink
Bethany Baptiste | Sourcebooks Fire | May 7, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
10. The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories
Desiree S. Evans | Saraciea J. Fennell | Flatiron | April 2, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
11. Dead Girls Walking
Sami Ellis | Amulet Books | March 26, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
12. Tender Beasts
Liselle Sambury | Margaret K. McElderry Books | February 27, 2024 | Amazon | Bookshop
13. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
Circe Moskowitz | Amberjack Publishing | October 17, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
14. The Forest Demands Its Due
Kosoko Jackson | Quill Tree | October 3, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
15. Monstrous
Jessica Lewis | Delacorte Press | September 12, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
16. There’s No Way I’d Die First
Lisa Springer | Delacorte | September 5, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
17. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
Jamison Shea | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | August 29, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
18. Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight
Shelly Page | Alex Brown | Wednesday Books | August 29, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
19. The Dark Place
Britney S. Lewis | Disney Hyperion | August 8, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
20. You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight
Kalynn Bayron | Bloomsbury | June 20, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
21. I’m Not Supposed to Be in the Dark
Riss M. Neilson | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | May 9, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
22. Blood Debts
Terry J Benton-Walker | Tor Teen | April 4, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
23. Delicious Monsters
Liselle Sambury | Margaret K. McElderry (Simon & Schuster) | February 28, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
24. The Black Queen
Jumata Emill | Delacorte Press | January 31, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
25. White Smoke
Tiffany D. Jackson | HarperCollins/Tegen | September 14, 2022 | Amazon | Bookshop
26. The Getaway
Lamar Giles | Scholastic | September 20, 2022 | Amazon | Bookshop
27. The Weight of Blood
Tiffany D. Jackson | HarperCollins/Tegen | September 6, 2022 | Amazon | Bookshop
28. The Undead Truth of Us
Britney S. Lewis | Disney-Hyperion | August 9, 2022 | Amazon | Bookshop
29. The Witchery
S. Isabelle | Scholastic Press | July 26, 2022 | Amazon | Bookshop
30. Artie and the Wolf Moon
Olivia Stephens | Graphic Universe | September 7, 2021 | Amazon | Bookshop
31. The Taking of Jake Livingston
Ryan Douglass | Putnam | July 13, 2021 | Amazon | Bookshop
32. Bad Witch Burning
Jessica Lewis | Delacorte | August 24, 2021 | Amazon | Bookshop
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