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Fear the Library 2024
Fear the Library
Oct 01 - Oct 31
Fear the Library 2024

Fear the Library is a horror themed reading program for kids, teens, and adults. Register online through ReadSquared or pick up your tracking card at the information desk and start reading!

Looking for reading suggestions? Check out our Fear the Library LibGuide for haunt-spiration!

Registration opens on October 1st, and you have until October 31st to complete 4 activities, which can be any combination of reading horror books/short stories and/or attending any of the Fear the Library events listed below.

What programs should I attend? Choose from any of the following events:

10/1 - 10/31 Write a Spooktacular Story (Children)

10/1 - 10/12 Teen Halloween Buttons in the Teen Room (Teens)

10/2 Read with Pride – discussion of Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Adults, Teens)

10/5 Saratoga Book Festival – Writing Terror panel featuring Daniel Kraus, Paul Tremblay, and Clemence Michallon (All audiences)

10/7 - 10/12 Take-and-Make Halloween Cemetariums (Teens)

10/9 Book Club is my Alibi – discussion of Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch (Adults)

10/9 Teen Ghastly Gulps (Teens)

10/12 Monster Story Time (Children/Families)

10/12 Family Movie Spooky Saturday (Children/Families)

10/15 Teen Crafternoon: Masquerade Masks (Teens)

10/16 Haunted Saratoga Tours Adult Group Haunted Tour (2pm)

10/16 Haunted Saratoga Tours Kids/Teens/Families Haunted Tour (4pm)

10/17 Adult Minecraft Meetup: Spooky Builds

10/18 A New Chapter – discussion of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara Butcher (Adults)

10/19 Intro to Embroidery: Halloween Ghost (Children)

10/21 Teen Neurodiversity Club – Make Halloween-Themed Cupcakes

10/22 Afterschool Art: Haunted House (Children)

10/22 Blood on the Clocktower – A Social Deduction Game for Adults

10/23 Teen Crafternoon: Spooky Spell Jars

10/24 Teen Crafternoon: Halloween Perler Beads

10/24 & 10/25 Owl Prowl (Children)

10/26 On the Road: SSPL Visits the Saratoga Farmers' Market & Halloween Activity

10/27 Drop-in Craft: “Good Luck” Ghost (Children)

10/28 Mystery Boxes (Children)

10/28 Teen Halloween Party

10/29 Teen Crafternoon: Sugar Skull Ornaments

10/29 An All-Poe Evening! History, Hauntings, and Hysteria! (All audiences)

10/30 SSPL Visits the Farmers Market: Spooky Make-it-Take-it (Children/Families)

10/30 Bats in New York (All audiences)

10/31 Halloween Trick-or-Treat in the Children’s Room (Children)

What are the prizes? If you can complete 4 Fear the Library activities (any combination of: reading horror books/short stories and/or attending spooky themed library programs), teens and adults get a special horror t-shirt or keychains/swag, and children who complete the challenge will receive a plushie of their choosing! All while supplies last.  

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