Library Of Souls by Ransom Riggs (Quirk, £12.99)

In the third adventure in the series of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, 16-year-old Jacob dives headfirst into history to save his companions from a dreadful fate.

Accompanied by Emma Bloom, who has fire at her fingertips and a talking dog, he battles hollowghasts, confronts wights and learns to control his own special powers in this brilliantly strange tale illustrated with eerie vintage photographs.

Goth Girl And The Wuthering Fright by Chris Riddell (Macmillan, £10.99)

The nights are getting shorter, the weather’s closing in, the moon is full and there are unusual paw prints on the snowy grounds of Ghastly-Gorm Hall, home to Goth Girl Ada and her father Lord Goth. There’s a Literary Dog Show in the offing but Ada thinks there’s a supernatural explanation for the paw prints in this witty, warm and wonderfully illustrated adventure.

Knitbone Pepper Ghost Dog by Claire Barker, illustrated by Ross Collins (Usborne, £9.99)

Death has come as a shock to Knitbone, the pet of the whimsical Pepper family who inhabit ramshackle Starcross Hall. But when the Hall is under threat and the family are facing eviction, Knitbone and his fellow ghosts, including a hamster and a hare, plan a charmingly spirited defence of their haunted home.

Pop-Up Haunted House (Usborne, £16.99)

This fantastical pop-up book is oodles of fearsome fun. Skeletons, headless ghosts and strange spectral hands are lurking in the corners of gloomy rooms and, with a pull of a green-faced Frankenstein monster and sheet-shaped spectre, they appear from behind a door marked “Strictly Private”.

Best of all is Count Fiercefangs looming out at you from a picture frame in the gruesome gallery.

Vampires Sticker Book (Usborne, £6.99)

There are 400 vampire-related stickers in this activity book, ready to be applied to “fangtastic” scenes within. Lurk in the creepy crypt with its worryingly empty coffins, go on a vampire vacation where the streets are ready to be filled with Transylvanian tourists or attend fright school and learn bloodthirsty skills: bleeding, biting and a nifty trick of fading to a shadow.

Fright Club by Ethan Long (Bloomsbury, £6.99)

Fright Club leader Vladimir the vampire is trying to train his band of spooky monsters for the annual Operation Kiddy Scare but he’s bored to sobs by their efforts, even when Mumford the Mummy pulls the stops out to impress him.

When a gang of woodland animals beg to join Fright Club, Vladimir laughs – well, cackles – in their faces, but then the monsters learn the hard way that you should never judge by appearances. Toddlers will love this lively story and with its creepy cast of characters, even parents will have fun reading it aloud.