Free Halloween Fun

The Library leans into Halloween with a mashup of scary story recommendations, frightful films, spine-tingling board games, and other creepy-cool activities and resources. 

Find ghastly good family amusement for all the little goblins at various Library locations this month, such as Boo Bashes at the Bluford and Plaza branches, haunted house collaging at Trails West, and spooky fun in the Friday Night Family Fun series.

Halloween Happenings at the Library

Screaming and Streaming

Hiding deep in the catalog are devilishly delightful titles waiting to keep you up at night. Find both horror and suspenseful thrillers as well as Halloween favorites. If you still want more, locate all your favorite jump scares — in English and in Spanish — on Kanopy and Bibliotele.

• Schlockbusters! A Collection of B-Movies for Halloween
• Nostalgia and Horror Through the Decades

Scary Books

Our librarians use their literary magic to conjure a cauldron of terror-inducing titles and quirky, spooktacular reads to get you into a fearsome mood for Halloween.

• Are You Afraid of the Dark?
• BIPOC Horror & Thrillers
• Dark and Twisted Fairy Tales
• Halloween Horror
• Halloween Titles for Kids
• Horror for Kids
• Instead of Checking On That Creepy Groaning Noise You Heard, How About One More Chapter Instead?
• Ready for Halloween?
• Scary Movies
• Spooked Silly! Not-So-Scary Books for Kids