
Halloween is just around the corner, and we’ve just survived an October Friday the 13. Spooky! October is for witches, ghosts, and the unexplained. It’s for fog and lightning and the feeling that anything can happen. Readers who’ve had your costumes on since 12:01am on October 1, this week’s book club is for you; filled with the supernatural and scary, these new novels are guaranteed to get your pulse — and your imagination — racing.
<em>The Rules of Magic</em>
<em>The Power</em>
<em>The Lairdbalor</em>
Ilana is an English professor, theatre consultant and playwright based in Toronto, Canada. When she’s not at the theatre or insisting that literary criticism can be fun, she’s singing a cappella or Mozart, occasionally harmonizing with the symphony, or playing “Under Pressure” with her rock handbell group, Pavlov’s Dogs.