Books if you love Beetlejuice

If you enjoyed the two Beetlejuice movies, then I have a few book recommendations. This is based on a tone that is reminiscent of these movies (spooky, bizarre, humorous, offbeat/quirky, dark, and supernatural elements).

Neil Gaiman:

Neverwhere

The Graveyward Book

Good Omens (also by Terry Pratchett)

Coraline

Grady Hendrix

How to Sell A Haunted House

Horrorstor

My Best Friend’s Exorcism

Audrey Niffenegger

Ghostly

Her Fearful Symmetry

Christopher Moore

The Stupidest Angel

A Dirty Job

You Suck

Other Authors:

We Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronvitch

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

Johannes Cabal the Neromancer by Jonathan L. Howard

The Library of the Unwritten by AJ Hackwith

I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Well

Big Fish by Daniel Wallace

Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

John Dies At the End by Vera Brosgol

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

Bunny by Mona Awad

Reeper Man by Terry Pratchett

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Graham-Smith

Shade House by David Mitchell

The Library of Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Jam by Yahtzee Croshaw

The Dead Father’s Club by Matt Haig

Cackle by Rachel Harrison

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetle…

Hey, you are messing with powers you do not understand alright!

Happy reading, Book Nerds!

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