Fancy reading something scary this year, but not sure which level of creepiness to go for? Here are the best ghoulish reads, ranked in order of thrill.

We find a book to match the movie – from Midsommar to Get Out to Nightmare on Elm Street – to give you your Halloween fix this year.

A list of blood-curdling book antagonists, from bloodsuckers to sea-monsters, cannibals to serial killers, vengeful ghosts to politicians.

Whether you're dressing yourself, your kids or the whole family, we have the easy, literature-inspired idea for you.

Have you always dreamed of being a real-life super sleuth? Then why not use this fun DIY costume to dress up as detectives Daisy or Hazel from Murder Most Unladylike.

Dress up as a spooky skeleton using this fun DIY costume, from Allan and Janet Ahlberg's classic tale Funnybones.

In this chilling short story from legendary horror writer Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales, titled ‘What a Thought’, a happy and loving wife suddenly can't shake a sinister compulsion.

In this short story from her collection Things We Say in the Dark, titled ‘My House is Out Where the Lights End’, author Kirsty Logan ponders: Is there anything scarier than the idea that even those closest to us are unknowable?

In this work of short fiction from new American horror master Chuck Wendig’s The Book of Accidents, the fireflies are behaving oddly – extremely oddly.