This Summerween and Christmas in July feel especially meaningful because they celebrate two very different stories that perfectly represent who I am as an author.

Some of the best Halloween and Fall reads this season — ranked by how much they’ll raise your heart rate. Grab a blanket, light a black-flame candle, and let’s descend into the pages.

'Twas The Night Before Halloween and Other Haunting Poems is my love letter to the spooky season. It’s a reimagining of a classic structure — keeping the rhythm and familiarity of Clement Clarke Moore’s original, but cloaking it in cobwebs, moonlight, and the rustle of dead leaves.