Whether you're partial to pumpkins and lanterns or crave scary shenanigans and ghoulish goings-on, here is where you will find a great selection of gift ideas for Halloween on Tuesday 31 October. From frightening fiction to gruesome gifts and from supernatural stories to activity books filled with witches, vampires and ghosts, we’ve got the best range of spooky books for both children and adults.
Frightful Fun: First Halloween Books for Babies & Toddlers
Horrid Henrys and Mildred Hubbles: Scares for Younger Readers
Keeping the Little Monsters Busy: Activity Books for Halloween
Dead Brilliant: Terrifying Tales for Older Readers
Grisly Glories: Spooky Stories for Teen & Young Adult Readers
Graphically Gruesome: Our Favourite Horror Manga
Monstrous Mayhem: Tricks, Treats and Toys
Fresh Frights: Chilling New Reading for Halloween
Centred around Christmas or Advent, these chilling tales from Bridget Collins, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Jess Kidd and others make for a gorgeously gothic follow-up to the bestselling ghost stories anthology The Haunting Season.
Old Familiars: Classic Tales of Terror
Terrifying True Tales: Our Most Disturbing Non-Fiction
Ghoulish Gifts
Classic horror in beautiful editions
The Best Classic Horror Stories
From vampires and ghosts to possession and twisted folklore, prepare for Halloween with our pick of spooky classics.
The Best Horror Manga
From Junji Ito to Sui Ishida, here is our guide to the most chilling and visceral manga from the masters of horror.
Alaina Urquhart on a Lifetime's Obsession with True Crime
Alaina Urquhart, author of The Butcher and the Wren and presenter of the true crime podcast Morbid, on the effect scary stories and true crime has had on her life and career.
Philippa Pride on Stephen King's Holly Gibney
Ahead of the publication of Holly and fresh jackets for the rest of the series, Stephen King's British editor talks Holly Gibney.
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