Literary links to put you in the Halloween spirit

Happy Halloween! If you're not at a costume party or out trick-or-treating, you can still capture the Halloween spirit with these (calorie-free) seasonally appropriate goodies from the archives.

Thematic travel 

• Agatha Christie's house is for sale 

• Take a look at Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein

• Take a tour of Edward Gorey’s "elephant house"

Reading recommendations 

• Congrats to the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe award winners!

• Congrats to the 2020 Bram Stoker Award winners!

• Magazine publishes unseen Shirley Jackson short story

• Stephen King's latest short story raises money for the ACLU

• The short story behind the movie Candyman

• Ghost stories for those who don't care for the supernatural 

• Why the Goosebumps books were one reader's perfect COVID escape

Old school

• First-edition Frankenstein sells for $1.17 million 

• Happy 124th birthday to Dracula 

• The lesser-known works of Thackeray
   

From beyond the grave 

• Miss Marple is coming back in September 2022 

• Sue Grafton's widower sells TV rights to her Kinsey Millhone novels

What to watch

• "The Yellow Wallpaper" has been adapted into a full-length movie 

• Stephen King discusses the new Lisey's Story miniseries 

• Stephen King reviews past TV adaptations of his books 

• The best fifty Draculas, according to Literary Hub 

• The Frankenstein adaptations to watch ... and avoid