If you are looking for a spooky Halloween read, the staff at the New York Public Library have some suggestions for you.

Affinity by Sarah Waters. Set in a gray, damp, haunted Victorian London women's prison. —Lynn Lobash, Manager Readers Services

Nonfiction:  Talking To The Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg. Follows the story of the Fox sisters, whose reports about strange noises in their mid-nineteenth-century home and claims that they could talk with ghosts gave rise to contemporary séance practices and modern beliefs about spiritualism. Fiction: Ordinary Horror by David Searcy.  This is not your run-of-the-mill horror story.  There is a brooding sense of unease and disquiet that permeate the story.  More literary than most horror stories—somewhat akin to Henry James’ Turn of the Screw crossed with Stephen King’s The Plant. —Wayne Roylance, Selection Team

I love Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Flesichman for teens and adults. There is a lot about Houdini’s death on Halloween plus his wife’s attempts, after his death, to contact him during seances….despite Houdini’s deep seated disbelief and full on antagonism towards séances during his lifetime, not to mention his well publicized campaigns to defrock psychics and mediums. For full on creepy, few things—for me—surpass Clive Barker’s Abarat series, Hiromi Goto’s Half World, or Mo Hayder’s Devil of Nanking. —Amie Wright, MyLibraryNYC

Bliss House by Laura Benedict, Amity by Micol Ostow (Adult/YA crossover) and The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey. —Miriam Tuliao, Selection Team

I’m a fan of Turn of the Screw by Henry James for a classic ghost story. I remember being surprised at how scary, Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill was. (One of Stephen King’s sons.) I was tempted to sleep with the lights on and every nighttime sound made me jump. —Maura Muller, Volunteers Program

Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. A deliciously atmospheric read. —Stephanie Whelan, Seward Park Library

For adult book creepiness I say Ubik by Philip K Dick. Nothing about Halloween, but creepy! In YA, Lips Touch There Times by Laini Taylor. Luscious glorious gothic vignettes. Nothing too racy. —Jill Rothstein, Andrew Heiskell Library

How about The Strain by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan? The new FX series is based off of this book, and the show sure makes me hide under the covers.  —Sherise Pagan, Grand Concourse Library

—Seconded by Andrea Lipinski, Kingsbridge Library

Speaking of The Strain, its opening evokes the same chills as the Stephen King classic Salem’s Lot. Probably the only vampire book that made me keep a light on. —Joshua Soule, Spuyten Duyvil Library

New YA horror: The Fall by Bethany Griffin, inspired by Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. Party Games by R.L. Stine. —Jenny Baum, Jefferson Market Library

Right up my alley! I just recently read these: We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory—five survivors gather in a group therapy session to discuss the  horrors they escaped. House of Small Shadows by Adam Nevill—A house full of puppets and preserved animals. Enough said. The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco—While we were all busy screaming at the sight of the creepy girl with the long black hair crawling out of a well Rin Chupeco was imagining things from her perspective. —Rosa Caballero-Li, AskNYPL