It’s never too early for scares — check out our picks for the best books to get you into the Halloween mood this summer:

  • Trick or Treat on Scary Street by Lance Bass
  • Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
  • It by Stephen King
  • The Ghostkeeper by Johanna Taylor
  • The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
  • Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
  • Things that Go Bump in the Day by Melinda Beatty
  • The Black Girl Survives in This One edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell
  • I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
  • The Troop by Nick Cutter
  • Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  • The Between by Tananarive Due