We are approaching the end of October. The world is preparing for the coming winter, leaves are falling, harvests are coming in. And the Bishop Dunne community is preparing for Halloween, for Día de los Muertos, and for All Saints Day and All Souls Day.

Don’t forget to keep logging your reading minutes in Beanstack. “Hallow-Read” is the current monthly challenge, through the end of October.

Need some suggestions for what to read? Come by the library to see the selection of books we have on all of these topics. Do you like scary stories? We have those. Want to know more about Día de los Muertos? Come check out some of these books. Curious about the difference between All Saints and All Souls? The library is the place to go for answers.

Have you seen these new books?

We also have these books about Día de los Muertos.

Don’t forget the classic horror stories. The library has Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, as well as retellings of the classics and nonfiction books about the writers.

And for fun, scary stories, look no further! Your Bishop Dunne Library has you covered.

Fans of more recent vampire and horror fiction can find Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, Darren Shan’s The Vampire’s Assistant, and This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel.

Don’t forget poetry!

Alberto Rios was born in Arizona and has spent much of his life there.  He teaches at Arizona State University where he serves as the director of the creative writing center. He became the first state poet laureate of Arizona in 2013 and has been a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (2014-2020).

His poem, “November 2: Día de los muertos,” reminds readers of the similarities and differences among these days that we mark each year at this time: Halloween, Día de los muertos, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day. The poem begins: “It is not simply the Day of the Dead—loud, and parties. More quietly, it is the day of my dead. The day of your dead.”

Read the poem at poets.org.