Halloween is right around the corner, and if you’re looking for a spooky read this month, our library staff have a few favorites to recommend!

Some of the books below we own, while others can be requested through the Commonwealth Catalog (ComCat) using your UMassD login. You can also download ebooks and audiobooks from the Boston Public Library collection if you register for a free Boston Public Library eCard (https://www.bpl.org/ecard/).

Questions about how to get fun books to read or listen to when you need a break from school? Ask a librarian!

Great reads from your librarians:

Rachel Baum, social sciences & data services librarian

• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (read a review; read our copy; read free online)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (read a review; read our copy; read free online)

Billy Cryer, web & discovery services Librarian

• Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (read a review; request a copy)

Judy Farrar, Archives & Special Collections Librarian

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr (read a review; read our copy)

Lorraine Heffernan, business & economics librarian

• Dracula by Bram Stoker (read a review; read our copy; read free online)
• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (read a review; read our copy)

Hilary Kraus, nursing & health librarian

• Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard (read a review; request a copy)
• Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw (read a review; request a copy)
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (trigger warning: true crime, rape and murder) (read a review; request a copy)

Olivia Miller, arts & humanities librarian

• The graphic novel series Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (content warning for violence, sexual assault, and physical abuse) (read a review; request a copy)

Kari Mofford, undergraduate & user services librarian

• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (read a review; request a copy)
• Coma by Michael Crichton (read a review; request a copy)
• Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? by Max Brallier (read a review; request a copy)

Susan Raidy-Klein, collection development & acquisitions Librarian

• “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe (read a review; read our copy; read free online)
• “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving (read a review; read in our copy of the anthology American Gothic Tales; read free online)

Matt Sylvain, systems and digital services librarian

• Passing Strange by Joseph A. Citro (read a review; request a copy)

The Science Fiction Book Club team recommends A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (read a review; read our copy) and Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (read a review; request a copy), both of which we read last year. Heather Tripp, video production specialist in University Marketing and one of our dedicated Science Fiction Book Club members, suggests Hannibal by Thomas Harris (read a review; request a copy).