October is the time of year when the strange and abnormal get to come out in full force. We've curated spooky picks to help you live your best life in October, whether you want to be scared to death by monsters, look like death in the goth scene, or laugh at death with horror parodies. Read more and sleep less with these dark picks.
Go Goth
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Mark Dery
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
David J. Skal
from: $9.79
Classic Creeps
Modern Monsters
True-Crime Terror
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Jeffrey Toobin
from: $5.39
Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History
Maureen Orth
from: $4.79
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
Michael Capuzzo
from: $4.79
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
Robert K. Ressler
from: $4.79
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Michelle McNamara
from: $4.49
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank The Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Charles Brandt
from: $4.49
Twisted Titles
Alice in Zombieland: Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' with Undead Madness
Nickolas Cook
from: $5.19