As Halloween fast approaches, we wanted to share seven fang-tastic books that are guaranteed to get you into a ghoulish mood with October’s 7Stories Selects : Spooky Season!

Allow yourself to be whisked away into the world of vampires, werewolves, and all creatures in between, and find your next favourite spooky read!

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Trick Or Treat? By Catherine Emmett

Picture Book

When a little girl knocks at a witch’s door, the witch cannot believe her luck: a little girl was just what she needed for her potion! The little girl compliments the witch on her “Halloween outfit” as she is invited inside, but little does the witch know, adding her potion’s missing ingredient will not be as easy as she thought.

The girl is playing trick or treat, and she has a trick in store for the unsuspecting witch!

Creaky Castle By Jane Clarke and Christyan Fox

Five & Over

Dare you visit the Creaky Castle when the day becomes the night?  Dare you find out what’s inside? Are you ready for a fright?

There is someone hiding around every corner. Perhaps you’ll find a werewolf in the shower, or a vampire in the clothes chest!

Lift the flaps to discover a host of characters, as they get ready to have a bone-shaking ball at the Creaky Castle party!

Monster Support Group: The Werewolf’s Tale By Laura Suárez

Story Seller Rec

Twelve-year-old Lowell has moved to a new village and is struggling to fit in at school. He is becoming grumpier, growlier and hairier than usual! And on one full-moon night, after a VERY bad day at school, he transforms into a werewolf!

Now Lowell needs the help of his local Monster Support Group to make him ‘normal’ again. This is the first instalment in the Monster Support Group series. Find out what happens to Lowell as well as the stories behind everyone’s favourite monsters!

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven By Juno Dawson

YA Fave

Known as Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, they protect crown and country from magical forces and otherworldly evil.

But their greatest enemy will come from within… There are whisperings of a prophecy that will bring the coven to its knees, and four best friends are about to be caught at the centre.

Life as a modern witch was never simple… but now it’s about to get apocalyptic.

Mallory Vale and the Curse of the Maggoty Skull by Martin Howard

Middle Grade

Mallory Vayle can see dead people and mostly tries to ignore them. But when her parents are GHOST-NAPPED, she is forced to team up with a talkative skull to get them back.

Can this unlikely pair vanquish an evil spirit, free Mallory’s parents AND even become friends?

We have special signed editions of this ready to buy in our Bookshop!

Sharp Objects By Gillian Flynn

Book Club Pick

From the author of the New York Times Bestselling novel Gone Girl…

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.

For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows.

Now, newly installed in her old bedroom and dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her past if she wants to get the story – and survive this homecoming.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Classic

This shocking tale gave birth to the popular idea of split personalities through the character of Dr Jekyll, who unleashes his deepest cruelties and most murderous instincts when he is transformed into the sinister Mr Edward Hyde.

The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde explores the depths of humanity’s capacity for evil, set within the backdrop of Victorian England, a place haunted by its own evil: Jack the Ripper.