Curl Up with a Good Book and Get Scared

Need a good scare?

Something about Halloween urges even the faintest of heart to indulge their adrenaline and seek out thrills. Haunted houses and scary movies are the obvious way to get your fix, but librarians at the Plymouth District Library are also recommending a little reading.

Check out this short list of adults books that the library recommends for Halloween:

• "Traveling with the Dead" by Barbara Hambly. This novel is about vampires, but don't compare it "Twilight," or the "Sookie Stackhouse" books. Set in 1908, the book follows Lydia Asher, who is following her husband, who in turn is following vampire royalty Charles Farren around the globe.
• "For a Few Demons More" by Kim Harrison. This is the latest in the "Hollows" series of books by the popular author. This installment follows heroine Rachel Morgan, who uses her gift of the dark arts to track down a serial killer in Cincinnati.
• "Midnight Mass" by F. Paul Wilson. This is another novel about the most popular dark creature of our time -- the vampire. This one shows what happens when recovering alcoholic and priest Joe Cahill decides to try to reclaim his parish from the vamps.
• "The Night Watch" by Sergei Lukyanenko. A true battle between the concepts of good and evil and light and darkness, this book includes romance, dark magic, witches, vampires and more, all set in modern-day Moscow.
• "The Society of S" by Susan Hubbard. This coming-of-age novel also involves (surprise, surprise) vampires -- but with an interesting twist. The main character, Ariella Montero, discovers as a teenager that she is a vampire and that overprotective father has been hiding her secret since birth.