{"id":11049,"date":"2015-10-15T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=11049"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:40","slug":"staff-picks-spooky-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2015\/10\/15\/staff-picks-spooky-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Spooky Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

We asked Loyola Library staff members to share their favorite spooky books in time for Halloween. Books available at the Loyola Libraries are hyperlinked.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Karen from the access services department recommends\u00a0In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories<\/em><\/strong> by Alvin Schwartz.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“One of my favorite books! A few of the stories scared the bejesus out of me. And looki\"martianng back, I don\u2019t really know why. But there is still something about this book that brings me back childhood.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Abby of the reference department says,\u00a0“it\u2019s not SUPER spooky, but I love the Martian Chronicles<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>by Ray Bradbury.\u00a0 It is really eerie, and unsettling at times, which I think makes it fall into the spooky category.<\/span>“<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Katherine from the cataloging department suggests\u00a0Outer Dark<\/strong> <\/a><\/em>by\u00a0Cormac McCarthy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“This is one of the most \"cormac\"chilling books I\u2019ve ever read. The basic plot follows a brother\u2014Culla\u2014and his sister\u2014Rinthy\u2014sometime around the turn of the century. Culla abandons his and Rinthy\u2019s newborn baby in the woods to die. When she discovers that the baby didn\u2019t die in childbirth, Rinthy sets out to find it. Culla then goes out searching for her, but three mysterious men\u2014who may be the literal embodiment of evil\u2014are also roaming the bleak landscape, leaving destruction in their wake.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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David Schmidt of the access services department says, “I\u2019m all about the classics.\u00a0 I recommend Don\u2019t Look Now<\/a><\/em> <\/strong>by Daphne duMarier (or, really, anything else by her) or The Collected Ghost Stories<\/em><\/strong> of M.R. James.\u00a0 Both are wonderfully enchanting authors who tell a great story with just the right chill for the Halloween season!”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sarah from the serials department suggests Broken Harbor<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Tana French. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ve been reading a lot of detective novels lately and this one stands out as being particularly creepy. Every detail that is revealed throughout the story just adds to the creepiness, even the title is creepy.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We asked Loyola Library staff members to share their favorite spooky books in time for Halloween. Books available at the Loyola Libraries are hyperlinked.   Karen from the access services department recommends\u00a0In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz. “One of my favorite books! A few of the stories scared the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":11073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1,5016],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17700,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions\/17700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}