Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols (DB53631)
by Edna Barth
The history of many Halloween traditions such as witches and goblins, bats and owls, Jack-O’-Lanterns, and trick-or-treating.
A Discovery of Witches (DB72629)
by Deborah Harkness
After scholar and witch Diana Bishop requests an alchemical manuscript from the depths of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, she finds the magical power within the leather cover disturbing and hastily sends it back. But the book’s reemergence causes a chain reaction through the paranormal community.
Coraline (DB54845)
by Neil Gaiman
While exploring her new home, Coraline goes through a doorway that shouldn’t be there into a dangerous world where she has a disturbingly different set of parents. Since this other mother kidnaps Coraline’s real parents, it is up to Coraline to rescue them and return to her world safely.
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (DB117262)
edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be unsettled?” Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls a Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl and snatch the foolish whistlers in the dark. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear-and even follow you home. In twenty-five wholly original and shiver-inducing tales, bestselling and award-winning authors including Tommy Orange, Rebecca Roanhorse, Cherie Dimaline, Waubgeshig Rice, and Mona Susan Power introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious revelling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.
The BFG (DB44101)
by Roald Dahl
Sophie is taken from her orphanage by a big friendly giant (“BFG”) who enjoys “dream blowing” — sending happy dreams to children with his magical trumpet. Together they devise a plan to save the world from nine people-eating “cannybull” giants.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (DB92229)
by J.K. Rowling
On Harry Potter’s eleventh birthday, he learns that he is more than an unwanted orphan. The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry recruits him because he has inherent magical abilities. As he purchases his school supplies–robes, wand, and messenger owl–Harry looks forward to attending his new boarding school.
A Court Of Thorns And Roses (DB81722)
by Sarah J. Maas
Dragged to a treacherous magical land, nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. Her feelings for him become complicated.
The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher (DB96620)
by Andrzej Sapkowski
Geralt is a witcher, with magic powers that have made him a brilliant fighter and merciless assassin. His targets are monsters that ravage the land and attack the innocent. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil, and not everything fair is good. T
Monster Hunter International, Books 1-3 (DB80117)
by Larry Correia
Books one through three in the Monster Hunter International series which feature a group of creature hunters at a premier eradication company. In “Monster Hunter International” CPA Owen Zastava Pitt tosses his crazed boss out the window and wakes up in the hospital to an odd job offer.
Storm Front (DB67342)
by Jim Butcher
Chicago. Harry Dresden, a wizard-for-hire specializing in paranormal investigations, helps the police probe the murders of mob enforcer Tommy and Tommy’s lover, Jennifer, an escort who worked for a powerful vampire. Clues indicate rogue sorcery, but there are no leads and no suspects.
