From funny picture books filled with make-believe monsters and mayhem to a truly horrifying collection of vampire, werewolf, and creepy cryptid books for adults - you'll find plenty of scary and not-so-scary books at the Library. Feed your curiosity... or fuel your next nightmare. It's all just a bit of spooky season fun!
Find all of the frightful (and delightful) book recommendations below...
# Attention Gamers
Prefer fighting monsters? Play games like Dungeons & Dragons at your library! You'll find Dungeons & Dragons games for kids, teens and adults happening regularly at multiple library locations. All experience levels welcome! You can even check out D&D (5.5 edition) rulebooks and supplemental guides and adventure modules as well as guides to several other popular tabletop roleplaying games.
Teens: Are you ready to reveal what lurks in the shadows? Over four chilling weeks, join Teen Advisory Board in crafting zines that twist nightmares into narratives, monsters into main characters, and haunted spaces into handmade worlds. Join us at TAB: Horror Zines this October.
Horror fans: Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. Her book, The Reformatory, delves into haunting historical fiction, shedding light on the tragedies of the infamous Dozier School for Boys. Meet her at our next Lit Chat on Saturday, Oct. 24.
#A Free-to-Stream "Fright" Film Fest
Kanopy's Crypt Collection is here and your watchlist will never be the same! They’ve curated a killer lineup of cult classics, arthouse nightmares, international chillers, and slashers — the best in horror film and TV. Browse, borrow, and maybe sleep with the lights on...
Reminder: You get 10 tickets each month to stream award-winning films and documentaries for free with Kanopy and your library card. As you browse for titles, you'll see the number of tickets required to watch each title and how long you have to watch it without using new tickets.
