YA Friday: Spooky Season

October is my favorite month!  With Halloween right around the corner, I am inclined to binge on spooky tv, podcasts and books.  I am a dyed in the wool skeptic, but I love reading about the paranormal and all things strange and mysterious.  If you are craving more strange stories, be sure to check out Thứ sáu YA: ngày 13 for some superstitions and more ghost stories; and our YA Horror staff picks book list for more fiction.  Let us know your favorite spooky media in the comments below!

Creepy Nonfiction

Ghosts Unveiled!, book cover

Ghosts Unveiled! by Kerrie Logan Hollihan

Kerrie Logan Hollihan takes a humorous but meticulously researched, well-balanced look at ghost appearances, unsolved mysteries, and eerie hauntings around the world-from the perennial Vanishing Hitchhiker, the child-nabbing La Llorona, and Korean water ghosts to school hauntings and wraiths in the White House (including the well-documented ghost of President Abraham Lincoln).



Jack the Ripper, bìa sách

Jack the Ripper bởi Michael Burgan

Nhìn vào một trong số anh ấytornhững kẻ giết người hàng loạt khét tiếng nhất thế giới được biết đến với việc thực hiện những vụ giết người khủng khiếp vào cuối thế kỷ 19, người vẫn là một trong những kẻ giết người khét tiếng nhất thế giới.torbọn tội phạm ghê gớm.



The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal, book cover

The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal by Marley Gibson

Three paranormal investigators impart their wisdom to the next generation of ghost hunters, including information on how to set up a ghost-hunting team, the equipment needed and how to use it, safety, and where to look for spirits.



Missing: Mysterious Cases of People Gone Missing Through the Centuries, book cover

Missing: Mysterious Cases of People Gone Missing Through the Centuries by Brenda Z. Guiberson

Explores the stories of individuals who have disappeared throughout history, including Jimmy Hoffa, D.B. Cooper, and Amelia Earhart.



Witch-Hunt, book cover

Witch-Hunt by Marc Aronson

What happened in Salem? Sifting through the facts, myths, half-truths, misinterpretations and theories the book presents a vivid narrative of one of the mysteries of American history.



Creepy Fiction

Những cô gái hoang dã, bìa sách

Cô gái hoang dã bởi Rory Power

Những người bạn Hetty, Byatt và Reece cố gắng hết sức để khám phá sự thật đen tối về căn bệnh bí ẩn đã khiến họ phải cách ly tại trường nội trú trên đảo Maine.



Ghost Tree, book cover

Cây ma by Bobby Curnow

Seeking a refuge from an unhappy life, Brandt returns to his ancestral home in Japan to find a haunted tree and the departed souls that are drawn to it, including his Grandfather. Getting more involved with the tree's inhabitants he attempts to heal some of history's wounds but will he be able to find any measure of peace for himself when someone special from his past returns?



Dracula, bìa sách

Draculan by Stacy King

A manga version of the classic.



When All the Girls are Sleeping, book cover

When All the Girls are Sleeping by Emily Arsenault

When a disturbing video of her late ex-best friend surfaces, making it like look like she was murdered, Haley digs into what really happened and must solve this supernatural mystery before history has a chance to repeat itself.



Anna Mặc Máu, bìa sách

Anna mặc trong máu bởi Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.



Việc bắt giữ Jake Livingston, bìa sách

Việc chiếm đoạt Jake Livingston bởi Ryan Douglass

When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.



Phù thủy dát vàng, bìa sách

Phù thủy dát vàng bởi Ciannon thông minh

Two enemy witches must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a tyrant who threatens both their worlds-with unpredictable results.



Buffy the Vampire Slayer, book cover

Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jordie Bellaire

A graphic novel based on the classic 90's tv show.