🍂 Spooky Season Stories: A Fa-boo-lous Fall Book List
A Fa-boo-lous Fall Book List means fall is here, and it’s officially the season for chills, cozy sweaters, pumpkin spice everything… and spine-tingling stories to pair with it. Over on my Benable page, I’ve curated a “Spooky Season Stories list full of haunted romances, dark mysteries, supernatural thrills, and more — perfect reads for October nights.
From A Killer Motive to The First Witch of Boston, each title on this list brings its own brand of delicious tension and otherworldly intrigue. Whether you prefer psychological suspense or light paranormal romance, there’s something here to haunt your TBR.
Let’s check out my October 2025 Fa-boo-lous Fall Book List
1. Ghost Writer
Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she’s offered a job to ghostwrite her father’s last book. What she doesn’t know, though, is that this project is another one of his lies. Because it’s not another horror novel he wants her to write. After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.
2. How to Survive a Horror Story (Deluxe Edition)
A savvy group of authors gather at the remote manor of famed horror writer Mortimer Queen, expecting to inherit his fortune — only to discover they’ve been locked into his sinister final will. Survival depends on outwitting the deadliest twists Queen prepared for them.
3. The Corpse in the Closet (Riley Thorn, #2)
Paranormal investigations meet small-town secrets when Riley Thorn, ghost hunter and psychometric empath, is led to a haunted manor and a corpse hidden in a secret cupboard — with more to the murder than meets the eye.
4. Terror at the Gates (Blood of Lilith, #1)
Dark fantasy and horror collide as Lilith, cast away and betrayed, rises from ruin to reclaim her magic — and face the forces that sought to destroy her long ago.
5. A Killer Motive by Hannah Mary McKinnon
Stella Dixon, host of a true crime podcast, has long carried guilt over her brother’s disappearance. When someone responds to her pleas for a clue with a twisted challenge, Stella is forced into a deadly game — and the stakes just got real.
6. Love, Mom (Deluxe Edition)
A haunting letter arrives after her mother’s passing, forcing a daughter to unravel a lifetime of secrets. What begins as a journey of grief and guilt becomes a fight for truth and identity.
7. Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice
Fall meets romance in this cozy seasonal tale. Between pumpkin patches, spiced lattes, and harvest festivals, hearts begin to thaw, and unexpected love brews in crisp autumn air.
8. Bewitched (Deluxe Edition)
When an antique mirror from Salem arrives, strange reflections—and voices—begin to surface. A woman must unearth the witchcraft tied to her lineage before the past repeats itself.
9. Anathema (The Eating Woods, #1)
Some forests hide more than trees. In Anathema, when a young woman returns to the cursed woods of her childhood, she discovers deadly rituals, ghosted memories, and her own uncanny connection to the wild.
10. Falling Like Leaves (Bramble Falls)
Gilmore Girls fans! Pour yourselves a hot cup of tea and get ready to fall in love with this cozy YA romance that will have you dreaming of autumn all year long. Small town, autumn magic, and a romance tangled in grief. As leaves fall in Bramble Falls, two people with broken pasts try to piece together love, loss, and new beginnings.
11. You Weren’t Meant to Be Human: A Novel
When magic doesn’t belong to everyone, what does belonging even mean? This chilling fantasy follows a character torn between two worlds — one of mortal blood and one of monstrous power.
12. Breathe In, Bleed Out
A dark and visceral horror-romance where a town’s secret cult intersects with one woman’s inexplicable power. As violence escalates and boundaries rupture, nobody is safe—and normal is a dangerous illusion.
13. The First Witch of Boston: A Novel
Two generations ago, a vampire slaughtered a family. Now, a Vietnam veteran and his adopted niece hunt—and are hunted—through Boston’s dark streets and supernatural underbelly to claim justice for the past.
14. Coffin Moon: A Novel
In a town entrenched in ritual, the moon holds dark bargains. When an outsider arrives seeking solace, the local lore and dangerous pacts become his test — and his temptation.
15. Spider to the Fly by J. H. Markert
In this tense psychological thriller, one person’s obsession becomes another’s trap. A young woman gets lured by a charismatic stranger, and the boundary between seduction and danger blurs with every page.
What did I miss on my Fa-boo-lous Fall Book List? Drop them in the comments!
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