Spell the Month in Books October 2025 (Spooky)

Spell the Month in Books October 2025 (Spooky)

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A happy welcome to the SPOOOOOOKYYYY Spell the Month in Books of October!

This month was, unlike last year, a bit harder. I wanted it spooky, but unlike last year I had a hard time finding some O’s and that one T. I had nothing on my TBR, nor any spooky books from my Need to Buy shelves. So I set my Goodreads Spooky shelf to A-Z and searched for the O’s (didn’t have a lot but thankfully I only need two) and for a T! It was quite fun to do some more searching and see which spooky book I would select for today’s post. Oh, and one letter is also from last year (Our Wicked Histories).

The books used today are from my Spooktober TBR (2 books), Read Shelf (3 books), To Buy Shelves (2 books).

The original creator of this tag is Reviews From The Stacks!

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Our Wicked Histories by Amy GoldsmithA teen girl’s attempt to make amends with her former friend group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown.

There’s something in the lake at Wren Hall.

At least, that’s what the locals say. Not that Meg cares much about the rumors. When she’s asked to spend Halloween weekend at the Ireland retreat of the wealthy Wren twins, she recognizes the invitation for exactly what it her last, and only, chance to save her spot at Greyscott’s, the exclusive British art school she attended on scholarship until last summer. Clever, beautiful, and talented, the twins are the pride of Greyscott’s, and kindhearted Lottie Wren was once Meg’s closest friends. But not anymore.

None of Meg’s old friend group have talked to her since she left school—and they especially don’t talk about the incident that resulted in her suspension. Now, Meg is willing to do whatever it takes to earn their forgiveness.

But Wren Hall turns out to be far from the idyllic country manor Meg was expecting. The house is damp and drafty, the mirrors are all covered, and the weed-choked lake is at the center of legends that haunt the property to this day—a tainted legacy the estate seems unable to shake.

The truth is, people aren’t the only ones who keep secrets. Places can keep them too—and Wren Hall is drowning in them. When the past bleeds into the present and ancient sins rise to the surface, Meg must ask herself how well she really knows her one-time best friends…or whether any of them will survive the weekend..

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13 Cornish Ghost Stories by Joanne Elle Parsons, blue cover with a ghostly figure running through the woods with hands reaching out to themCornwall is the perfect setting for tales, myths, and legends.

The wild moors, the granite, the clay, the rebellious sea, and flat calm coves make the county a vast and inspirational canvas.

The starry nights, needle-sharp gorse, and windswept tors and carns provide perfect backdrops to eerie full moons and ghostly goings-on.

Mischievous piskies dance across our landscape, while the spectres of the past, both real and imagined, haunt our memories and our dreams.

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Toshi Densetsu-senpai Vol.1 by Kazuki Hiraoka, girl looking a bit oddly at the reader with a guy in the backgroundMokume, a freshman in college, joins the occult club she’s always dreamed of. However, after “Kugutsu-senpai,” rumored to “attract urban legends,” quits, the club has become nothing more than a drinking club… Hoping to live the campus life of her dreams, she decides to visit Kugutsu-senpai, but…?

A mysterious girl who loves the occult x a loser college student who’s drawn to paranormal phenomena

A youthful (?) occult comedy begins!!

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Welcome. Have a seat. The doll will move if you ask nicely. She’s got a story to tell. But be warned. One-Eyed Doll isn’t just any tale. This is a Scary Tale.
Meet Malick Rice and his sister, Tiana. Two kids who love to hunt for hidden treasure and are about to make their biggest find yet. A small box, locked tight, buried behind a deserted house. A box meant to stay buried forever… in this bone-chilling tale from James Preller and Iacopo Bruno.

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Beta Vulgaris by Margie SarsfieldA young woman’s seasonal job takes a dark, surreal turn in this vivid and surprising debut.

When Elise and her boyfriend, Tom, set off for Minnesota, all she knows about harvesting sugar beets (Beta vulgaris) is that her paycheck will cover a few months’ rent on their Brooklyn apartment. She’ll try anything to escape the incessant debt collection calls—and chronic anxieties about her body and her relationship. But as the grueling graveyard shifts set in, Elise notices strange threatening texts, a mysterious rash, a string of disappearances from the workers’ campsite, and snatches of a hypnotic voice coming from the beet pile itself.

As crewmembers vanish, Elise obsesses over Tom’s closeness with their charismatic coworker Cee and falls back on self-destructive patterns of disordered eating and dissociation. Against the horrors of her uncertain future, is the siren song of the beet pile almost . . . appealing? Biting and eerie, Beta Vulgaris harnesses an audacious premise to undermine straightforward narratives of class, trauma, consumption, and redemption.

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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouieFrom the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a heart pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense that takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined possible. A beautiful Russian doll of a story… Episode Thirteen hooks you, creeps you out, and then it overwhelms you. It’s House of Leaves meets Haunting of Hill House, in all the best possible ways. — Peter Clines, NYT bestselling author of The Broken Room Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts. Episode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter’s holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. It’s also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it. But as the house begins to reveal itself to them, proof of an afterlife might not be everything Matt dreamed of. A story told in broken pieces, in tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is the story of Episode Thirteen — and how everything went terribly, horribly wrong.

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The Rotting Room by Viggy Parr Hampton, woman in black dress/nun outfit and a green face staring at the reader“I am ready to join the Sisterhood of Viggy after reading The Rotting Room. Time to take my vows, now that I’ve novitiated on this awe-inspiring novel, and commit myself to a lifelong calling of reading whatever Parr Hampton writes.” —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your EyesSister Rafaela, a newcomer to the cloistered Sisters of Divine Innocence, yearns for redemption from her horrific past. However, her new abbey, bound by a vow of silence and a disturbing burial ritual, hides its own sinister secrets.

When a mysterious stranger arrives and dies soon after, her body resists decomposition, sparking fevered claims of sainthood among the nuns… but Rafaela suspects something far darker.

As the abbey teeters on the edge of madness, Rafaela and local priest Father Bruno race to uncover whether the Sisters of Divine Innocence are graced by a divine miracle—or consumed by unspeakable evil.

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