JCKL Library Blog

Read these books for Spooky Season!

This Halloween, sink your teeth into these hauntingly good titles available right here at JCKL:

Featured Horror Books

• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix – Follow Louise as she travels back to her home town to sell her family home after her parents' death. There, she learns some houses simply don’t want to be sold. 
  
  
• Rogue by Mona Awad – A gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path. Sometimes described as a “Horror Retelling of Snow White”.
  
  
• Middle of the Night by Riley Sager – A man returns home to face the mystery of his childhood friend’s disappearance, and the ghosts still haunting his old neighborhood

More of an audiobook or eBook reader? You can find these spooky reads on Overdrive! And don’t forget about the library’s expansive movie collection! Located on the third floor AND on Kanopy (found in the library database section on our website). 

Spooky Warrensburg Activities

Get into the Halloween spirit with these library and Warrensburg happenings:

• Halloween Virtual Costume Contest (Oct. 31, all day) — Join the library and show off your costume by sending in a picture to the JCKL snapchat! First place wins a library prize pack!
  
  
• Nightmare on South Holden Street (Oct. 25, 7-10 p.m.)  — Have a spooky experience at the Union for Nightmare on South Holden Street!
  
  
• Halloween Market and Haunted Trail (Oct. 24, 25 and 31, 6 - 10:30 p.m.) — Enjoy a free Halloween themed market AND a spooky haunted trail on the outskirts of town! Located at Twin Oaks Event Center!

You can find more spooky activities at the Muleskinner’s Instagram page (@muleskinner_ucm). Spend some spooky time at the library this year and pick up a good SCARE!

Post contributed by Brea Parnell.