Happy Halloween!

CELEBRATE WITH A SCARY MOVIE…

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

As Above, So Below

The Babadook

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Blair Witch (2016)

The Boy

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie (1976)

CELEBRATE WITH A SCARY MOVIE…

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

As Above, So Below

The Babadook

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Blair Witch (2016)

The Boy

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie (1976)

Carrie (2013)

Cloverfield

The Conjuring

The Crazies

Dark Water

Darkness

Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence

Deliver Us from Evil

Don’t Look Now

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

1408

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friday the 13th (2009)

Fright Night

Get Out

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Goodnight Mommy

The Grudge

Halloween

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Hills Have Eyes

The Innkeepers

The Innocents

Insidious

The Invisible Man

It Follows

Jaws

Kwaidan

The Last Exorcism

The Last House on the Left

Let Me In

Let the Right One In

Lights Out

Magic

Mama

The Messengers

Mirrors

The Mist

My Bloody Valentine

The New Daughter

Night of the Living Dead

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Omen

Orphan

The Orphanage

The Others

P2

Paranormal Activity

Poltergeist (1982)

Poltergeist (2015)

The Possession

Quarantine

The Ring

Ringu

The Rite

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Rosemary’s Baby (2014)

The Ruins

Shutter

Silent Hill

Sinister

The Skeleton Key

Sorority Row

Stay Alive

The Strangers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Thing

30 Days of Night

Train to Busan

The Uninvited (1944)

The Uninvited (2009)

Vacancy

Vampyr

We Are What We Are

White Noise

The Witch

Wolf Creek

The Wolfman

The Woman in Black

Skulls

Featured Display: Haunted America

Get hyped for Halloween with some spooky, scary, and spine-chilling tales of haunted places around America! Our “Haunted America” display features books with true stories of ghosts and haunted houses, including several on Long Island hauntings.

Get hyped for Halloween with some spooky, scary, and spine-chilling tales of haunted places around America! Our “Haunted America” display features books with true stories of ghosts and haunted houses, including several on Long Island hauntings.

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Titles on display:

Long Island’s Most Haunted: A Ghost Hunter’s Guide by Joseph Flammer and Diane Hill

Spooky Creepy Long Island by Scott Lefebvre

Ghosts of Long Island: Stories of the Paranormal by Kerriann Flanagan Brosky

Ghosts of Long Island II: More Stories of the Paranormal by Kerriann Flanagan Brosky

Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets by Chris Gethard

Guide to the World’s Supernatural Places by Sarah Bartlett

Historic Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott

Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof by Roger Clarke

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum

Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side by James Van Praagh

Happy Halloween!

Celebrate with a scary movie…

Celebrate with a scary movie…

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

The Birds

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie (1976)

Carrie (2013)

Cloverfield

The Conjuring

The Crazies

Dark Water

Darkness

Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence

Deliver Us from Evil

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

1408

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friday the 13th (2009)

Fright Night

The Grudge

Halloween

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Hills Have Eyes

The Innkeepers

The Innocents

Insidious

The Invisible Man

Jaws

The Last Exorcism

The Last House on the Left

Let Me In

Let the Right One In

Magic

Mama

The Messengers

Mirrors

The Mist

My Bloody Valentine

The New Daughter

Night of the Living Dead

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Omen

Orphan

The Orphanage

The Others

P2

Paranormal Activity

Poltergeist

The Possession

Quarantine

The Ring

Ringu

The Rite

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Rosemary’s Baby (2014)

The Ruins

Shutter

Silent Hill

Sinister

The Skeleton Key

Sorority Row

Stay Alive

The Strangers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Thing

30 Days of Night

The Twilight Zone: Essential Episodes

The Uninvited

Vacancy

Vampyr

We Are What We Are

White Noise

Wolf Creek

The Wolfman

The Woman in Black

Skulls

Witchy Reads!

A selection of fiction titles for your reading pleasure. Happy Halloween!

Cabot, Meg. Jinx. 2009. Sixteen-year-old Jean “Jinx” Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

Coakley, Lena. Witchlanders. 2011. After the prediction of Ryder’s mother, once a great prophet and powerful witch, comes true and their village is destroyed by a deadly assassin, Ryder embarks on a quest that takes him into the mountains in search of the destroyer.

Duncan, Lois. Gallows Hill. 1997. Role playing takes on a terrifying cast when 17-year-old Sarah, who is posing as a fortune-teller for a school fair, begins to see actual visions.

Gray, Claudia. Spellcaster. 2013. Descended from witches, high school senior Nadia can tell as soon as her family moves to Captive’s Sound that the town is under a dark and powerful spell. Then she meets Mateo, the teenage local whose cursed dreams predict the future, and they must worktogether to prevent an impending disaster that threatens the entire town.

Green, Sally. Half Bad. 2014. In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.

Hearn, Julie. The Minister’s Daughter. 2005. In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.

Hemphill, Stephanie. Wicked Girls: a novel of the Salem Witch Trials. 2010. Wicked Girls is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials told from the perspective of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692. Ann Putnam Jr. plays the queen bee. When her father suggests that a spate of illnesses within the village is the result of witchcraft, Ann grasps her opportunity. She puts in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of the people around her forever.

Horowitz, Anthony. Raven’s Gate. 2005. Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.

Kontis, Alethea. Hero. 2013. Saturday Woodcutter accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard and, with sword in tow, sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and held captive by a mountain witch with the power to destroy the world.

Lamb, Victoria. Witchstruck. 2013. Meg Lytton has always known she is different — that she bears a dark and powerful gift. But in 1554 England, in service at Woodstock Palace to the banished Tudor princess Elizabeth, it has never been more dangerous to practise witchcraft. Meg knows she must guard her secret carefully from the many suspicious eyes watching over the princess and her companions. One wrong move could mean her life, and the life of Elizabeth, rightful heir to the English throne. With witchfinder Marcus Dent determined to have Meg’s hand in marriage, and Meg’s own family conspiring against the English queen, there isn’t a single person Meg can trust.

MacCullough, Carolyn. Once a Witch. 2011. Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical “Talent,” but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny.

Powell, Laura. Burn Mark. 2012. In an alternate London, England, the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl eagerly awaiting the development of her “fae,” or witch abilities, and the son of a man who sentences witches to death by burning, intersect when the son makes a startling discovery.

Pratchett, Terry. The Wee Free Men: the Beginning. 2011. Young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

Rees, Celia. Witch Child. 2000. In 1659, 14 year old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Rinaldi, Ann. A Break with Charity: a story about the Salem Witch Trials. 1992. While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

Schwab, Victoria. The Near Witch. 2011. 16 year old Lexi, who lives on an enchanted moor at the edge of the village of Near, must solve the mystery when, the day after a mysterious boy appears in town, children start disappearing.

Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron. 2012. Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Diana Peterfreund, and Garth Nix are just a few of the authors who have toiled over their cauldrons and conjured up bewitching new creations inspired by and celebrating the might and mystery of the witch.

Dare To Be Scared! Horror Novels for Teens

We have a creeptastic selection of fantastic books. Here is a compilation of our horror novel selections from September 2014.

Aguirre, Ann. Mortal Danger. 2014. 376p. YA AGU

Baron, Ruth. Defriended. 2013. 248p. YA BAR

Bick, Ilsa J. White Space. 2014. 551p. YA BIC

Carroll, Emily. Through the Woods: Stories. 2014. YA GRAPHIC CAR

Chupeco, Rin. The Girl from the Well. 2014. 267p. YA CHU

Clare, Cassandra. City of Heavenly Fire. 2014. 725p. YA CLA

Garner, Em. Contaminated. 2013. 330p. YA GAR

Grant, Mira. Feed. 2010. 599p. YA GRA

Green, S.E. Killer Instinct. 2014. 257p. YA GRE

Hill, Joe. Locke & Key. 2008-2014. YA GRAPHIC HILL

Kooistra, Alison. The Night Wanderer: a graphic novel. 2013. 108p.  YA GRAPHIC KOO

Kraus, Daniel. Scowler. 2013. 289p. YA GRE

Lettrick, Robert. Frenzy. 2014. 298p. YA LET

May, Elizabeth. The Falconer. 2014. 378p. YA MAY

Ostow, Micol. Amity. 2014. 361p. YA OST

Snyder, Scott. American Vampire. Volume One. 2010. YA GRAPHIC AMERICAN VAMPIRE

Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Welcome to the Dark House. 2014. 357p. YA STO

Sullivan, Kiki. The Dolls. 2014. 371p. YA SUL

Vanhee, Jason. Engines of the Broken World. 2013. 262p. YA VAN

Vega, Danielle. The Merciless. 2014. 279p. YA VEG

Happy Halloween!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie

Cloverfield

The Conjuring

The Crazies

Dark Water

Darkness

Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

1408

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friday the 13th (2009)

Fright Night

The Grudge

Halloween

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Hills Have Eyes

House of Wax (1953)

House of Wax (2005)

The Innkeepers

Insidious

The Invisible Man

Jaws

The Last Exorcism

The Last House on the Left

Let Me In

Let the Right One In

Magic

Mama

The Messengers

Mirrors

The Mist

My Bloody Valentine

The New Daughter

Night of the Living Dead

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Omen

Orphan

The Orphanage

The Others

P2

Paranormal Activity

Poltergeist

The Possession

Quarantine

The Ring

Ringu

The Rite

Rosemary’s Baby

The Ruins

Shutter

Silent Hill

Sinister

The Skeleton Key

Sorority Row

Stay Alive

The Strangers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Thing

30 Days of Night

The Uninvited

Vacancy

Vampyr

White Noise

Wolf Creek

The Wolfman

The Woman in Black

Skulls

Or, enjoy a book about the paranormal and supernatural!

Happy Halloween!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie!

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project

The Cabin in the Woods

Carrie

The Cave

Cloverfield

The Crazies

Dark Water

Darkness

Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence

The Descent

Devil

The Devil Inside

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Drag Me to Hell

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

Final Destination

1408

The Fourth Kind

Friday the 13th

Fright Night

The Grudge

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Hills Have Eyes

House of Wax

Insidious

The Invisible Man

Jaws

Land of the Dead

The Last Exorcism

The Last House on the Left

Let Me In

Let the Right One In

Magic

The Messengers

Mirrors

The Mist

My Bloody Valentine

My Soul to Take

The New Daughter

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Omen

Orphan

The Orphanage

The Others

P2

Paranormal Activity

Piranha

Poltergeist

Quarantine

Ringu

The Rite

Rosemary’s Baby

The Ruins

Saw: The Final Chapter

Shutter

Silent Hill

The Sixth Sense

The Skeleton Key

Sorority Row

Stay Alive

The Strangers

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Thing

30 Days of Night

The Unborn

The Uninvited

Vacancy

Vampyr

White Noise

Wolf Creek

The Wolfman

The Woman in Black

 

Or, enjoy a book about the paranormal and supernatural!

Scary Movies for Halloween

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie from the library!

Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie from the library!


1408

The Amityville Horror

The Birds

The Blair Witch Project

Carrie

The Collector

The Crazies

Dawn of the Dead

The Exorcist

Eyes Without a Face

The Grudge

The Hills Have Eyes

Insidious

Jaws

Magic

Mirrors

The Mist

The Omen

Paranormal Activity

Ringu

The Strangers

The Uninvited

Vacancy

Vampyr

White Noise

And, some Frightening Reads.

Halloween Reads for Teens

Looking for something spooky to read this October? Check out both our Creepy Reads display in the Young Adult area, ask Miss Kate whatever she’s reading (trust us, the creepier the book, the happier she is), or … check out any of the books listed below.

The Summoning (Darkest Powers Trilogy) – Kelley Armstrong

Chime – Franny Billingsley

White Cat (Curse Workers) – Holly Black

Anna Dressed in Blood – Kendra Blake

Beastly – Alex Flinn

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

Tighter – Adele Griffin

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin

Devilish – Maureen Johnson

Blood and Chocolate – Annette Curtis Klause

The Betrayal of Maggie Blair – Elizabeth Laird

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer – Lish McBride

The Wager – Donna Jo Napoli

Firespell (Dark Elite) – Chloe Neill

Rampant – Diana Peterfreund

Die for Me – Amy Plum

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs

Vampire Crush – A.M. Robinson

We Hear the Dead – Dianne Salerni

Cirque du Freak – Darren Shan

Misfit – Jon Skovron

Peeps – Scott Westerfeld

Blood – K.J. Wignall

The Replacement – Brenna Yovanoff

Halloweening It Up

Halloween is next Sunday, and to get everyone in the creepy mood, here are some suggested books and movies. Note: some titles can be found in Adult Fiction.

If you want to get your nerd on, the library WILL be open on Sunday, October 31st, and at least one staff member will be in costume. If you come in costume, you might be featured here, on our blog!