I have compiled a top 10 list of interesting and creepy books in the spirit of Halloween this year. I bet you can’t guess which one is my favorite…
1. Holly
Author: Stephen King
Released: September 5th, 2023
Available formats: Hardcover/Audio book/ebook
Stephen King's “Holly'' marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy recluse in Mr. Mercedes, to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers, and finally to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In this new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.
When Penny Dahl calls the detective agency Finders Keepers hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Peter, her partner, has COVID. Her mother has just died and Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.
2. Playing the Witch Card
Author: KJ Dell’Antonia
Released: September 12th, 2023
Available formats: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/Library binding
The latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Chicken Sisters, the story follows one woman's Halloween homecoming to the town where she gave up on magic, only to discover that magic refuses to give up on her. Flair Hardwicke takes over her grandmother’s bakery and unwittingly unleashes magic over the Kansas town when she bakes a batch of Tarot card cookies.
3. Bright Young Women
Author: Jessica Knoll
Released: September 19th, 2023
Available formats: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
A serial killer has terrorized women across the Pacific Northwest, January 1978. President of the sorority Pamela Schumacher had made an unpopular decision to stay home — a decision that saved her life. After being startled awake in the early morning by a strange sound, she decides to investigate. Here is where she finds a scene of implausible violence: two of her sorority sisters maimed and two dead. Pamela is now pushed into a terrifying mystery inspired by the crime that’s captivated public interest for more than four decades.
4. Enchanted to Meet You
Author: Meg Cabot
Released: September 5th, 2023
Available formats: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong in her teenage years and brought her all the wrong kind of attention.
Fifteen years later, no one is more surprised than Jess when the tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the chosen one.
However, just when Jess is beginning to think that she and Derrick might have a certain magic of their own, Jess learns he may not be who she thought he was. She suddenly finds herself making another kind of choice. Either trust Derrick and work with him to combat the sinister force battling to bring down West Harbor, or use her gift as she always has: to keep herself, and her heart, safe.
5. Hex Education
Author: Maureen Kilmer
Released: September 19th, 2023
Available formats: Paperback/Kindle/Audible Audiobook
Luxury realtor Sarah Nelson looks like every other mom in the neighborhood on the outside: running errands, navigating the school pickup line, and begrudgingly volunteering at the high school concession stand. Yet she has an edge that others don’t… she’s a witch! She uses magic in small, secret ways and absolutely no one knows about it.
Except her estranged ex-coven. In college, when she and two friends first uncovered the magic, it didn’t take long before they used it to improve their lives. Yet they made a mistake one night, and their dorm went up in flames and burned to the ground.
6. The September House
Author: Carissa Orlando
Released: September 5th, 2023
Available formats: Hardcover/Audiobook/ebook/Kindle
Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street at a surprisingly reasonable price and couldn’t believe that they now owned a home. By then there were hauntings being discovered. Every September, the ghosts of former inhabitants appear and the walls drip blood. Most were terrified of what was lurking in the basement and would flee.
But not Margaret!
Will the hauntings ever stop? Must read to see if she ever finds a solution to this horrible and spooky situation. …
7. The First Date Prophecy
Author: Kate & Danny Tamberelli
Released: June 27th, 2023
Available formats: Paperback/Kindle/ebook/Audio book
Star of Nickelodeon’s All That and The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Danny Tamberelli teams up with his wife Kate for this fiercely funny novel.
Aspiring writer Lucy Minninger has a big problem when it comes to romance. As the rejection slips pile up, Lucy refuses to give up hope — or her HeartThrobs dating profile. …
Rudy Riziero is a former child star who made his mark on some of the most popular kids shows of the 90s. As he continues to neglect his work since his early success, he is now ready for a relationship, if he could only just find someone who is uninterested in who he once was. Will Lucy and Rudy be that outstanding couple that they dreamed to have?
8. Vampires of El Norte
Author: Isabel Canas
Released: August 15th, 2023
Available formats: Hardcover/Kindle/Audio book/ebook/library binding
From the author of one of the best mystery, thriller, and suspense novels The Hacienda, Isabel brings us a supernatural western. Nena, a healer, and Nestor, a vaquero, must team up to defeat a horrifying force in 1840s Mexico. The legends of witches, vampires, and El Cucuy, a scary boogeyman in the Rio Grande Valley, are drawn into place in this instant USA Today bestseller.
9. Black Sheep
Author: Rachel Harrison
Released: September 19th, 2023
Available formats: Hardcover/Audiobook/Kindle/ebook
Horror fiction writer Rachel Harrison brings us her newest book Black Sheep, in which a cynical twenty-something must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly… something else. …
10. In Charms Way
Author: Lana Harper
Released: August 22nd, 2023
Available formats: Paperback/Audiobook/Kindle/ebook
New York Times bestselling author of Payback’s A Witch, Lana Harper brings us her newest book “In Charms Way,” which is about Delilah Harlow who lost her memory and casts a healing spell to help her reclaim it. But her spell has unexpected consequences: she attracts evil spirits into Thistle Grove. After an unfortunate encounter with a demon, she meets monster hunter Catriona Quinn, and the two must team up to save the town.
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