The Art of Spooky Season

The Ultimate List of Spooky Books, Shows, and Movies to Dive into this Halloween

Double, double, toil and trouble…something spooky this way comes. The witches are dusting off their broomsticks, and the vampires are exiting their cozy coffins for 31 nights of fright. Get ready, you’re in for a scare!

Dear reader, we’ve compiled the ultimate list of books, movies, and TV shows so that you can have the most haunting October yet.

If you didn’t already know, Page Street puts out reading lists at the beginning of every season on our social media. Our Autumn Reading list is currently pinned on our Instagram, and it’s a comprehensive guide to fall cookbooks, crafts, and even some of our Young Adult books, to read this fall. Since Page Street is located in Salem, MA, we thought it was only fitting to create this special edition spooky season list with all of the horror recommendations you could possibly need this Halloween.

FRIGHTENING FILMS: A List of Horror Movies to Watch

• Get Out

• Us

• Nope

• Children of the Corn

• The Devil’s Carnival

• The Evil Dead

• The Babadook

• Crimson Peak

• It Follows

• Pearl

• Midsommar

• Jeepers Creepers

• Scream Franchise

• Halloween Franchise

• Hocus Pocus

SPOOKY SHOWS: A List of Scary Shows to Watch

• True Blood

• American Horror Story (Best Seasons: Murder House, Asylum, Coven, Hotel, Roanoke, and Red Tide)

• The Haunting of Hill House

• Midnight Mass

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• The Secret Circle

• Lovecraft Country

• Locke & Key

• Charmed

• Ratched

• The Haunting of Bly Manor

• The Vampire Diaries

• Supernatural

• The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

• Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

• Mindhunter

BEWITCHING BOOKS: A List of Spooky Books to Read

• Clown in a Cornfield

• Bunny

• I Am Not a Serial Killer

• Coyote Songs

• Uzumaki

• The Haunting of Hill House

• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

• Horrorstor

• This Thing Between Us

• The Hacienda

• Dead Silence

• The Watchers

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

• The Cabin at the End of the World

• The Hollow Places

• The Final Support Group

If you’re looking for a more comprehensive guide to the horror book genre, I highly recommend picking up a copy of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann. It has everything you’ll need to properly dive into the genre!