{"id":1768,"date":"2026-10-18T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T03:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.als.lib.wi.us\/CPL\/?page_id=1768"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T03:52:20","slug":"shelfways-after-dark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.als.lib.wi.us\/CPL\/shelfways-after-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelfways After Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.2&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;28px|0|10px|0|false|false&#8221; border_width_bottom=&#8221;3px&#8221; border_color_bottom=&#8221;#BF5C35&#8243; global_module=&#8221;545&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;27px|0px|20px|0px|false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.als.lib.wi.us\/CPL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CPL-graphic.png&#8221; url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.als.lib.wi.us\/CPL&#8221; align_tablet=&#8221;center&#8221; align_phone=&#8221;&#8221; align_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; z_index_tablet=&#8221;500&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.2&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;right&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.sharelibraries.info\/client\/en_US\/cli\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.als.lib.wi.us\/CPL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/share-logo-from-website-2gray.png\" width=\"147\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.sharelibraries.info\/client\/en_US\/cli\/\"><strong>SHARE Catalog Search<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<form id=\"quicksearch\" action=\"https:\/\/ent.sharelibraries.info\/client\/cli\/search\/results?\" method=\"get\" target=\"_self\">\n<fieldset id=\"entfield\">Search:\u00a0<input id=\"q\" accesskey=\"s\" class=\"text\" title=\"Enterprise searchbox:\" maxlength=\"250\" name=\"q\" size=\"25\" type=\"text\" placeholder=\"Search our catalog\" \/>\u00a0<input id=\"searchButton\" class=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Search\" \/><\/fieldset>\n<\/form>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;right&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.sharelibraries.info\/client\/cli\/search\/patronlogin\/https:$002f$002fent.sharelibraries.info$002fclient$002fcli$002fsearch$002faccount$003f\">My Account &amp; Bill Pay |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.sharelibraries.info\/help\/user-help_en_US\/index.htm\">Catalog Help<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;40px|0px|54px|0px|false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|27px|0px|false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.als.lib.wi.us\/CPL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/shelfways-after-dark.png&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; alt=&#8221;Creepy banner announcing the shalfways after dark reading list. Candles light a dark spooky library with smoking books on a desk.&#8221; title_text=&#8221;shelfways after dark&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|27px|0px|false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<h1><strong>Shelfways After Dark: A Weird October<\/strong><\/h1>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0||27px||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<p>Everything here is on the Clinton Public Library\u2019s shelves, with call numbers as of September 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>Start at the door<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Haunting+of+Hill+House&amp;type=AllFields\">The Haunting of Hill House<\/a> (H JAC). The house that taught every other house how to be wrong.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Harvest+Home&amp;type=AllFields\">Harvest Home<\/a> (H TRY). A farm village, a harvest rite, and everyone smiling a little too much.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Hausu&amp;type=AllFields\">Hausu<\/a> (DVD HOU). A 1977 Japanese haunted-house film in which a piano eats a girl. Pure joy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Dredge&amp;type=AllFields\">Dredge<\/a> (GAME DRE). A cozy fishing game until the fish start coming up wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Houses that are wrong<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Malpertuis&amp;type=AllFields\">Malpertuis<\/a> (H RAY). A Belgian mansion where the old Greek gods are trapped inside people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Houseguest&amp;type=AllFields\">The Houseguest<\/a> (H DAV). Amparo D\u00e1vila: something lives in the house, and no one will name it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Boss+in+the+Wall%3A+A+Treatise+on+the+House+Devil&amp;type=AllFields\">The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil<\/a> (H DAV). Avram Davidson takes the creature in the walls perfectly seriously.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Seven+Empty+Houses&amp;type=AllFields\">Seven Empty Houses<\/a> (H SCH). Samanta Schweblin&#8217;s Argentine domestic dread.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Wolf+House&amp;type=AllFields\">The Wolf House<\/a> (DVD WOL). A Chilean stop-motion nightmare painted onto the walls of a house.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Skinamarink&amp;type=AllFields\">Skinamarink<\/a> (DVD SKI). Two children, a dark hallway, and the doors are gone.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Jan+%C5%A0vankmajer&amp;type=AllFields\">Jan \u0160vankmajer<\/a> (BLU SVA). Czech animation where meat, dolls and furniture come alive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Old ghosts, east and west<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Collected+Ghost+Stories+of+M.R.+James&amp;type=AllFields\">Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James<\/a> (H JAM). The best ghost stories in English, and this copy has never been checked out.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Tales+of+Moonlight+and+Rain&amp;type=AllFields\">Tales of Moonlight and Rain<\/a> (H UED), then <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Ugetsu&amp;type=AllFields\">Ugetsu<\/a> (DVD UGE). The 1776 ghost stories and the 1953 film Mizoguchi made from them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Shadow+Book+of+Ji+Yun&amp;type=AllFields\">The Shadow Book of Ji Yun<\/a> (H YUN). Eighteenth-century Chinese fox spirits and &#8220;true&#8221; weird tales.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Kwaidan&amp;type=AllFields\">Kwaidan<\/a> (BLU KWA), <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Jigoku&amp;type=AllFields\">Jigoku<\/a> (DVD JIG) and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Daiei+Gothic&amp;type=AllFields\">Daiei Gothic<\/a> (BLU DAI). A Japanese ghost-film night.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Book+of+Yokai&amp;type=AllFields\">The Book of Yokai<\/a> (398 FOS), then the <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Yokai+Monsters&amp;type=AllFields\">Yokai Monsters<\/a> films (BLU YOK) and Mizuki&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Kitaro&amp;type=AllFields\">Kitaro<\/a> manga (MANGA MIZ BK. 0). Read the monsters, watch the monsters, read the comics about the monsters.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Ghosts+of+Okinawa&amp;type=AllFields\">The Ghosts of Okinawa<\/a> (398.2 HIT).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Slavic dark<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Vourdalak&amp;type=AllFields\">The Vourdalak<\/a> (DVD VOU). A Tolstoy vampire tale whose vampire is played by a puppet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Savage+Hunt+of+King+Stakh&amp;type=AllFields\">The Savage Hunt of King Stakh<\/a> (DVD SAV). A Belarusian gothic: fog, marshes and a ghostly hunt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Orchard+of+the+Dead&amp;type=AllFields\">Orchard of the Dead<\/a> (H GRA). Stefan Grabi\u0144ski, the Polish Poe.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=There+Once+Lived+a+Woman+Who+Tried+to+Kill+Her+Neighbor%27s+Baby&amp;type=AllFields\">There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor&#8217;s Baby<\/a> (H PET). Petrushevskaya&#8217;s scary fairy tales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The cosmic and the yellow sign<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fred Chappell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Dagon&amp;type=AllFields\">Dagon<\/a> (H CHA), plus <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Under+Twin+Suns&amp;type=AllFields\">Under Twin Suns<\/a> (H CHA), new tales of the King in Yellow.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Lovecraft+Anthology&amp;type=AllFields\">The Lovecraft Anthology<\/a> (GN LOC VOL. 1), then <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Call+of+Cthulhu&amp;type=AllFields\">Call of Cthulhu<\/a> (793.93 CTH) and its <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Grand+Grimoire+of+Cthulhu+Mythos+Magic&amp;type=AllFields\">Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic<\/a>. Read it, then play it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Planet+of+the+Vampires&amp;type=AllFields\">Planet of the Vampires<\/a> (BLU PLA). Mario Bava&#8217;s 1965 space horror, the film Alien borrowed from.<\/li>\n<li>Sun Ra, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=It%27s+After+the+End+of+the+World&amp;type=AllFields\">It&#8217;s After the End of the World<\/a> (CD SUN). The soundtrack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>True(ish) weird<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Passport+to+Magonia&amp;type=AllFields\">Passport to Magonia<\/a> (001.94 VAL) and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=American+Cosmic&amp;type=AllFields\">American Cosmic<\/a> (001.94 PAS). UFOs, fairies and belief.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=They+Flew%3A+A+History+of+the+Impossible&amp;type=AllFields\">They Flew: A History of the Impossible<\/a> (133.8 EIR). Levitating saints, documented.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Poltergeists&amp;type=AllFields\">Poltergeists<\/a> (133.1 SIT). Sacheverell Sitwell&#8217;s 1940 case files.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=City+of+the+Beast&amp;type=AllFields\">City of the Beast<\/a> (133.43 BAK). Aleister Crowley&#8217;s London.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Memoirs+of+My+Nervous+Illness&amp;type=AllFields\">Memoirs of My Nervous Illness<\/a> (616.89 SCH). A judge&#8217;s 1903 account of his own psychosis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Novels+by+Aliens%3A+Weird+Tales+and+the+Twenty-First+Century&amp;type=AllFields\">Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century<\/a> (133 MAR).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Fortean+Times&amp;type=AllFields\">Fortean Times<\/a> (MAG FOR) and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Weird+Tales&amp;type=AllFields\">Weird Tales<\/a> (MAG WEI). Monthly dispatches from the unexplained.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Haunted+Wisconsin&amp;type=AllFields\">Haunted Wisconsin<\/a> (WISC 133.1 SCO). Closer than you&#8217;d like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>In panels<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Junji Ito, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Uzumaki&amp;type=AllFields\">Uzumaki<\/a> (MANGA ITO VOL. 1-3). A town infected by spirals. On hold, so get in line.<\/li>\n<li>Shintaro Kago, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Dementia+21&amp;type=AllFields\">Dementia 21<\/a> (MANGA KAG VOL. 1). Grotesque, absurd and funny.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+EC+Archives&amp;type=AllFields\">The EC Archives<\/a> (GN EC): <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Tales+from+the+Crypt&amp;type=AllFields\">Tales from the Crypt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Vault+of+Horror&amp;type=AllFields\">The Vault of Horror<\/a>. The comics Congress panicked about in 1954.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Creepy+archives&amp;type=AllFields\">Creepy archives<\/a> (GN CRE) and Alan Moore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Saga+of+the+Swamp+Thing&amp;type=AllFields\">Saga of the Swamp Thing<\/a> (GN MOO BK. 1).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Hellboy&amp;type=AllFields\">Hellboy<\/a> (GN MIG VOL. 1), then <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Hellboy+Animated&amp;type=AllFields\">Hellboy Animated<\/a> (DVD HEL).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Beyond the edge of the screen<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Mad+God&amp;type=AllFields\">Mad God<\/a> (BLU MAD). Phil Tippett&#8217;s 30-year stop-motion descent into hell.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Junk+Head&amp;type=AllFields\">Junk Head<\/a> (DVD JUN). A one-man stop-motion epic about a world underground.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Dogra+Magra&amp;type=AllFields\">Dogra Magra<\/a> (BLU DOG). A Japanese amnesia nightmare from a famously &#8220;unfilmable&#8221; novel.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Inland+Empire&amp;type=AllFields\">Inland Empire<\/a> (BLU INL). David Lynch at his most lost.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Magick+Lantern+Cycle&amp;type=AllFields\">The Magick Lantern Cycle<\/a> (BLU MAG) and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Maya+Deren+Collection&amp;type=AllFields\">The Maya Deren Collection<\/a> (DVD MAY). Occult cinema and dream cinema.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Living+Skeleton&amp;type=AllFields\">The Living Skeleton<\/a> (DVD LIV), <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Goke%2C+Body+Snatcher+from+Hell&amp;type=AllFields\">Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell<\/a> (DVD GOK) and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+X+from+Outer+Space&amp;type=AllFields\">The X from Outer Space<\/a> (DVD X FR). Glorious 1960s Japanese strangeness.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Woodlands+Dark+and+Days+Bewitched&amp;type=AllFields\">Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched<\/a> (DVD 791.43 WOO). Three hours on folk horror; pair it with Harvest Home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Roll the bones<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Call+of+Cthulhu%3A+Gateways+to+Terror&amp;type=AllFields\">Call of Cthulhu: Gateways to Terror<\/a> (793.93 CTH). A ready-made Halloween one-shot.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=FE+BORG%3A+A+Dark+Fairytale&amp;type=AllFields\">FE BORG: A Dark Fairytale<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Pirate+Borg&amp;type=AllFields\">Pirate Borg<\/a> (793.93 BOR).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Big+Squirm&amp;type=AllFields\">The Big Squirm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Acid+Death+Fantasy&amp;type=AllFields\">Acid Death Fantasy<\/a> (SF 793.93 GEA), and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Ruinous+Palace+of+the+Metegorgos&amp;type=AllFields\">The Ruinous Palace of the Metegorgos<\/a> (SF 793.93 LOC). The weirdest adventures on the shelf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Put a record on<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Cramps, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Bad+Music+for+Bad+People&amp;type=AllFields\">Bad Music for Bad People<\/a> (CD CRA). Psychobilly for carving pumpkins.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Sun+Ra&amp;type=AllFields\">Sun Ra<\/a>, any of them (CD SUN).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Small and sinister (kids and teens)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Edward Gorey (SPOOKY JUV E GOR): <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Gashlycrumb+Tinies&amp;type=AllFields\">The Gashlycrumb Tinies<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+West+Wing&amp;type=AllFields\">The West Wing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Evil+Garden&amp;type=AllFields\">The Evil Garden<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Osbick+Bird&amp;type=AllFields\">The Osbick Bird<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Soap+Lady&amp;type=AllFields\">The Soap Lady<\/a> (SPOOKY JUV E FRE). Based on a real mummified body in a Philadelphia museum.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Struwwelpeter&amp;type=AllFields\">Struwwelpeter<\/a> (SPOOKY JUV E HOF) and Belloc&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Cautionary+Tales&amp;type=AllFields\">Cautionary Tales<\/a> (SPOOKY JUV 821.91 BEL). Grim books from the 1800s and early 1900s.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Scary+Stories+to+Tell+in+the+Dark&amp;type=AllFields\">Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark<\/a> (SPOOKY JUV FIC SCH). Still the best gateway there is.<\/li>\n<li>For teens: <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Our+Shadows+Have+Claws&amp;type=AllFields\">Our Shadows Have Claws<\/a> (YA MEN) and <a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Mary%27s+Monster&amp;type=AllFields\">Mary&#8217;s Monster<\/a> (YA 921 SHE).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The first-reader challenge<\/h2>\n<p>None of these has ever been checked out. Be the first reader and claim a prize.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Of+One+Blood&amp;type=AllFields\">Of One Blood<\/a> (H HOP). Pauline Hopkins, 1902: mesmerism, ghosts and a hidden African city.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=My+Bones+and+My+Flute&amp;type=AllFields\">My Bones and My Flute<\/a> (H MIT). A Guyanese ghost story &#8220;in the old-fashioned manner.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Cold+Skin&amp;type=AllFields\">Cold Skin<\/a> (H PIN). A lighthouse on an island, and things that come out of the sea at night.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Flaw+in+the+Crystal&amp;type=AllFields\">The Flaw in the Crystal<\/a> (H SIN BK.36). May Sinclair&#8217;s uncanny stories.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/clinton.sharelibraries.info\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Cruise+of+Shadows&amp;type=AllFields\">Cruise of Shadows<\/a> (H RAY). 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