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This selection of cozy mysteries, witchy romances, and peculiar paranormal tales will get you in the Halloween spirit (without making you want to sleep with the lights on).

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match

by Sally Thorne

After helping her brother Victor with his famous experiment, Angelika realizes she may now have a solution to her lack of suitors.

The Kiss Curse

by Erin Sterling

Rival shop owners Gwyn and Wells team up (whether they want to or not) when a new coven of witches arrives in town and Gwyn’s powers begin to fade.

Under the Whispering Door

by TJ Klune

Wallace is dead, but he’s not ready to go. When a tea shop owner promises to help him cross over, he gets seven days to make up for a life not really lived.

In the Company of Witches

by Auralee Wallace

When a guest dies at the Warren witches’ bed and breakfast, Brynn is forced to conduct an investigation to prove her aunt’s innocence.

Dead to the World

by Charlaine Harris

After a vampire with amnesia falls into the care of a small-town waitress (who happens to read minds), it becomes clear that whoever cursed him is still after him.

Death Overdue

by Allison Brook

After a homicide detective dies during a presentation at the local library, the new program director tries to find the killer — with the help of the friendly librarian ghost.

Vampires, Bones, and Treacle Scones

by Kaitlyn Dunnett

An effort to turn a spooky abandoned house into a Halloween haunted house is upended by strange occurrences. Namely: the decorative skeleton is replaced with a real body.

Payback’s a Witch

by Lana Harper

Three young witches have had their hearts broken by the same guy. When one of them returns home after a long absence, they team up for revenge.

The League of Gentlewomen Witches

by India Holton

Charlotte, future leader of a league of witches who use magic to correct the world as they see fit, teams up with a rogue pirate to protect a newly-uncovered talisman.

Lady of Bones

by Carolyn Haines

The Delaney Detective Agency is getting ready for Halloween when they’re asked to look into a series of disappearances in New Orleans that may have something to do with a mysterious cult.

Be My Ghost

by Carol J. Perry

After Maureen loses her job, a surprise inheritance of an inn in Florida from a woman she doesn’t know seems like a saving grace—until one guest turns up dead and others turn out to be ghosts.

Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter

by Nancy Atherton

When Lori’s 5-year-old twins say they spotted a vampire, she calls upon her late Aunt Dimity and her good friend Kit to help her uncover the truth about the being.