What is better at this time of year (especially with the much-needed rain) than curling up with a scary book?  We now have the entire Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan.  The twelve book series features an average boy, Darren Shan, whose life becomes much more complicated (and less average) when he and his friends obtain tickets to the Cirque Du Freak (french for “circus of freaks”).  The ghoulish excitement turns into terror as Darren’s friend  realizes that one of the performers is a true vampire.  This series can be found in our Young Adult Science Fiction/Fantasy section. 

We have many other spooky stories that are perfect to get you into the Halloween spirit.  To mention a few we have:   The Ghosts of Virginia by L. B. Taylor; The Ghosts and Glories of Monroe Park, Richmond, Virginia:  A Sesquicentennial History by David M. Clinger; and Haunted Hikes:  Spine Tingling Tales and Trails From North America’s National Parks  by Andrea Lankford.

For our younger readers we have a great selection of spine-tingling stories including:  Dudes, The School Is Haunted! by R.L. Stine; In A Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwarts; and Short and Shivery:  Thirty Chilling Tales by Robert D. San Souci.

For our youngest readers we have many wonderful Halloween stories, a few of which are:  Who Goes Out On Halloween? by Sue Alexander; A Woggle of Witches by Adrienne Adams; and 10 Trick-or-treaters:  A Halloween Counting Book by Janet Schulman.

Happy haunting and happy reading!