Part of This Complete Spooky Season


September 7, 2021 —
It’s that pumpkin-stabbing-dead-leaves-scratching-sweater-sporting-spine-chilling-broom-riding time of year again. Time to sort out your spooky reads. Here are eight short pitches for why you should choose one of mine as part of your complete spooky season.


You’ll be monster-mashed by all the ghosts and vampires and werewolves and witches this season. But you’ll find only one Smashed Man. His terrors are unique and worth adding to your and your kids’ phobias.

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Cursed objects are the genesis of almost every spooky story we have, so go right to the source and learn the true stories of the most infamous ones. It could save your soul. Also, a great gift book. We should do Halloween presents.

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The real estate market for haunted houses is hellishly hot during the Halloween Season, and this book will change how you look at them.

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Don’t let it’s green and yellow cover fool you. This story is set deep within the soft orange jack-o-lantern heart of Halloween—there’s a harvest carnival, giant pumpkins, creepy graveyards. Plus, it’s kids vs. a serial killer. You’ve been looking for that.

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If you plan on visiting Salem this season or are only going there in your mind spooky-James-Taylor style, this book can be your Bible. If your Bible has a pentacle on the cover. Also, you can use the book itself as a Halloween decoration.

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Poe’s a Patron Saint of Halloween, so celebrate his October 7 Death Day by learning what parts of him are left behind. There’s a lot. Everything from pieces of his coffin to his honeymoon suite.




Start spreading the boos, the state of New York has a dark side, and if you wanna learn about it or experience the Addams Family State yourself, this book can be your guide. Do it for the Headless Horseman.

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For New Anglophiles everywhere, and for those who want to do a Fall road trip of the northeast, this should be in your passenger seat. Even if you have passengers. And especially if that passenger is a ghostly hitchhiker you picked up.

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And here's an easy Amazon link to all of them. Buy 'em from anywhere, though.