The best Halloween films, TV & books

Breaking the wish-granting willow gets a hopeless romantic exactly what he asked for — at a sinister price.

A journalist's daughter disappears into the desert; eight years on, someone comes back — but the reunion turns nightmare.

A strange doorway in a furniture showroom basement opens onto something that should not exist.

Jake Sully's family faces the Ash People, a ruthless Na'vi tribe, after the war's devastating losses.

A novelist retreating to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes finds witch legends disturbingly close to real.

Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira are drawn into the Infinity Castle for a desperate fight against Upper Rank demons.

A masked killer stalks a familiar group of teens in this sharp satire of horror movie conventions.

A medical student eating human ashes as a weight-loss craze finds herself haunted by the ghost of the consumed.

Two brothers raised as hunters pursue the paranormal evil that killed their mother across America.

A missing boy, secret experiments, and a strange girl unsettle a small town's sense of reality.

A high-schooler eats a cursed finger to save a classmate and must battle spirits before the curse kills him.

Kidnapped and remodeled by the evil organisation Shocker, Takeshi Hongo becomes a weapon against his captors.

A teenager transported to another world discovers he revives every time he dies — with growing consequences.

Two vampire brothers, obsessed with the same girl, bring centuries of dark history into a small town.

A New England mayor's push to build tourist trade runs into locals who insist their town is cursed.

An anthology series that rebuilds its horror setting every season — asylums, covens, hotels, cults, and more.

Roland and his ka-tet battle a suicidal sentient monorail before a long detour into Roland's past begins.

Luke Ellis's parents are murdered in the night and he wakes in a secret facility — escape is not simple.

Mia the demon-mother seizes control of Susannah and flees, forcing the rest of the ka-tet into a desperate rescue.

A girl discovers she is not human but a faerie — and trouble follows immediately.

Tim carves a pumpkin, names it Jack, and watches it slowly rot and transform through the seasons.

Wisty and Whit Allgood are arrested by a regime that has banned books, music, art, and magic.

Shadowhunter Clary Fray navigates vampires, werewolves, and faeries while her mother lies in a magical coma.

Children playing an Egypt game become entangled in a real murder — and find unlikely shelter with the Professor.