In This Issue

If you're reveling in the final bewitching nights of spooky season, be sure to scare up a copy of Justine Pucella Winans's "eerie, captivating" middle-grade novel, A Little Too Haunted, about a 13-year-old "paranormal scholar" juggling the pressures of middle-school crushes, chronic IBS, and exorcising ghosts. And Deston J. Munden conjures up some appetizing, if unorthodox, enchantments in Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife, a "novel of found family and fierce love," about an undead orc turned restaurateur. Or brave the chilling echoes of generational trauma in Jen Sookfong Lee's "unnerving... terrifying" The Hunger We Pass Down, whose ghostly horrors are rooted in cruel historical events. As the reassuring Ina Garten meme goes, "If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine!"