Are you the type to shut yourself in with a good book on Halloween night? These seven books are as spine-chilling for their terrific prose as they are for their supernatural storytelling. Get in the spooky spirit this season in the company of these literary ghosts.
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre.
I am Homeless If This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
A time-hopping ghost story told through the eyes of a teacher visiting his dying brother, a therapy clown and an assassin. It’s a tragicomic tale that’s peppered with the author’s unmistakable banter and unpredictable twists.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
In Sri Lanka, a dead photographer tries to solve his own shocking murder in this 2022 Booker Prize winner that the judging committee called "a rollercoaster journey through life and death.”
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted by the store's most annoying customer. A unique ghost story that wades into themes of incarceration, grief, justice and protest during one of the most turbulent years in the city’s history
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations.
Blackouts by Justin Torres
This 2023 National Book Award winner for fiction fuses fiction and true history to shine a spotlight on the forgotten queer lives of a bygone era.
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
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