It’s Spooky Season on Hoopla
Hoopla offers endless entertainment for all your Halloween cravings. We’ve put together several collections that cover everything we love about Halloween, from giggle-filled treats to flat-out terror.
Whether you’re a fan of witches, werewolves, haunted places, or monsters, Hoopla has a collection ready to make your spooky season unforgettable. Dive into vampire tales, encounter monsters, explore mad science experiments, or laugh your way through Halloween hijinks—all from the comfort of your home. Let’s get spooky!
When Does Spooky Season Start?
Spooky season kicks off in early October and runs through Halloween night, giving you plenty of time to enjoy Hoopla’s extensive Halloween entertainment. From eerie audiobooks and chilling movies to kid-friendly stories and graphic novels, Hoopla is the perfect place to discover infinite tricks and treats this spooky season.
Here’s a sampling from each of our Halloween-themed collections:
Witches & Werewolves Collection
Hate Hex by Gina LaManna and read by Rusty Mewha and Abigail Reno
Trixie Gardens is an ordinary witch and a struggling taxi driver in paranormal New York. After accidentally activating her magic during a clash with Dominic Kent—a grumpy billionaire vampire—they spar with witty curses. But when danger strikes, they must unite, blurring the lines between hate and love.
In these eight episodes, the witchy story continues. A neurosurgeon learns she is the unexpected heir to a lineage of witches and must face a dark force that has plagued her family for generations.
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall
Sadie Revelare protects her heart to preserve her magic, accepting the curse of four heartbreaks. But when her grandmother’s terminal cancer and her estranged family—including her first love Jake and twin brother Seth—return, Sadie must confront secrets, love, and whether magic or love matters most.
Tricks & Treats Collection
The beloved funny picture book is a movie! The Twilight Zone meets the carrot patch as a rabbit becomes convinced his beloved snacks are plotting against him.
Thriller, Monster Mash, Somebody’s Watching Me, and 38 more catchy classics for spooky season, all sung by the Kidz Bop crew.
All 8 episodes of the Spookley the Square Pumpkin series are here, about everyone’s favorite square pumpkin and his pals from Holiday Hill Farm. You’ll also find some animated family-friendly Halloween films, including The Halloween Family and Lil’ Monsters.
Ghosts & Haunted Places Collection
Spooky podcasts for kids! Gather ’round the campfire (or Bluetooth speaker). Perfect for kids ages 8 and up who love a spine-tingling tale. Tune in for two eerie series from Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine—R.L. Stine’s Story Club and Ivy’s Chilling Tales. Then dive into Juniper’s Grave Tales, an exclusive Hoopla podcast by award-winning author Don Roff—so much frightful fun.
How to Survive a Horror Story by Mallory Arnold
When famed horror writer Mortimer Queen dies, a group of authors attends his will reading, each hoping for a share of his fortune. Instead of an inheritance, they’re caught in a deadly game inside his eerie manor. The rules? Solve the riddle to move forward. Fail, and the house claims one of them. The Queen estate isn’t just haunted—it’s hungry.
Bad Dreams in the Night by Adam Ellis
This graphic novel collection delivers original horror stories in the spirit of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, featuring chilling urban legends, eerie twists, and haunting tales. Created by one of the biggest names in webcomics, each story is guaranteed to leave you creeped out—and craving more.
Mad Science & Monsters Collection
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling and read by Jim Dale
Harry Potter’s summer has been anything but ordinary—complete with a terrible birthday, ominous warnings from a mysterious house-elf named Dobby, and a daring rescue from the Dursleys’ by Ron Weasley in a flying car. Now back at Hogwarts for his second year, Harry begins to hear eerie whispers in the deserted corridors of the castle. Soon, students start turning up petrified, and it seems that Dobby’s dark warnings are beginning to come true.
Manga Classics: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, adapted by Mathieu Chedid, illustrated by Linus Liu
A chilling new manga adaptation of Mary Shelley’s iconic story of creation, isolation, and destruction! Young Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret to creating life. But when his experiment succeeds, he recoils in horror and abandons the newborn creature, unable to face what he’s made. The rejected being disappears—and Victor tries to erase the memory of his terrible act. Yet the creature lives. Cast out and condemned to solitude, it turns to the only thing left to it: vengeance.
Terrifier 3 (2024)
He’s back. Art the Clown (who is indeed terrifying) is poised to bring terror to the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they settle in for a quiet Christmas Eve.
Vampires Collection
Daniel Molloy resumes his interview with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac. After a failed attempt to kill Lestat, Louis and Claudia travel to Europe in search of others like themselves. In post-World War II Paris, they encounter the vampire Armand and his coven at the Théâtre des Vampires.
The official soundtrack for the 2025 film Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: Dawn of the Vampires includes nine brand-new pop tracks and two reprises of beloved fan favorites from the series. The music plays a key role in advancing the story, which follows Zed and Addison as they navigate tensions between feuding Daywalkers and Vampires during a summer road trip.
Midnight Pulp is an outstanding BingePass for cult film fanatics. Explore a wild mix of action, horror, sci-fi, and thrillers packed with monsters, aliens, kung fu warriors, slashers, and all kinds of cinematic oddities. If you’re craving something truly offbeat and bizarre, this is your place to stream the strange. *Note: Content is recommended for mature audiences.
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