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Spooky Mysteries

The Unknown is one of mankind's most primal fears. So, it's no surprise that spooky tales and mysteries go together like peanut butter and chocolate. If that sounds like an intriguing literary flavor, we've prepared a list of prose and graphic novels featuring intrepid detectives and the sinister, often supernatural forces standing in their way that you can read right now via hoopla & Libby.

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  • In this novel, Jim Butcher introduced readers to the hero that steps up when Chicago's criminal and mystical underworlds collide, private investigator and wizard, Harry Dresden. It's the first book in a series that would come to be known for its…
    eBook, Penguin Publishing Group
  • Stephen King's "The Outsider" opens with a shocking and bizarre crime that leaves a police detective wondering if it was perpetrated by a human monster or an inhuman one hiding in plain sight?
    eBook, 2018Scribner, 2018
  • This is the graphic novel collection that introduced the titular, heroic, demon, paranormal investigator who hunts monsters and other supernatural phenomenon for a secret, government agency. In this story, he becomes embroiled in a mystery involving…
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2004Dark Horse Comics, 2004
  • This novel kicks off Mike Carey's Felix Castor series which follows the exploits of a British, freelance exorcist and private investigator who lives in a world where something has caused the dead to rise from their graves as ghosts that occasionally…
    eBook, 2007Orbit, 2007
  • "Ghost Road Blues" is the first book in a trilogy of novels set in the fictional rural town of Pine Deep Pennsylvania; a quaint burg known for the big way it celebrates Halloween. Beneath the towns reputation for manufactured horrors lie real ones;…
    eBook, 2016Kensington Books, 2016
  • This horror novel from mystery writer, Michael Koryta, follows a documentary film maker tasked with digging into the mysterious past of 95 year old billionaire. it's an investigation that leads him to a recently restored hotel with a storied past,…
    eBook, 2010Little, Brown and Company, 2010
  • In this kick-off to a three volume graphic novel series readers are transported to a a fully fleshed out, horror themed amusement park named Devil Land. It's a place of fiendish fun, macabre and cute mascots and sinister, supernatural, secrets that…
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2023Image Comics, 2023
  • This kick-off novel to the titular series that includes multiple novels, novellas , short stories, and graphic novels finds a young officer of the Metropolitan Police Department discovering his city is a lot more stranger and dangerous than he…
    eBook, 2022JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2022
  • This first volume of a series of graphic novels is set in Detroit in the 1970s follows the exploits of a reporter whose investigation into a series of grizzly murders plunges her into the world of dark, occult forces.
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2018BOOM! Studios, 2018
  • In "The Nightmare Man", the release of a new horror novel kicks off a wave of gruesome murders that eerily mimic chapters from the book. It's a book that was written in a large, spooky mansion with a shadowy history. The book's writer and heir to…
    eBook, 2023Crooked Lane Books, 2023
  • In "Ninth House" Leigh Bardugo takes readers deep into the mystical underworld of the secret societies of a prestigious Ivy League university. It's a world of sinister magic and rituals that can kill the living and raise the dead. When that happens,…
    eBook, 2019Flatiron Books, 2019
  • This novel follows a group of competitors who are supposed to hide for a week in an abandoned amusement park. The prize is a life changing amount of money, but unbeknownst to the contestants something sinister is searching for them and taking them…
    eBook, 2022Random House Worlds, 2022