Disney and Marvel YA Perfect for Halloween Time

Looking for a YA book to enjoy this Halloween season? Explore backstories and new adventures of some of your favorite Disney and Marvel characters. From anti-heroes and villains to unlikely heroes and witches, add these books to your reading list in time for the season.

Agatha Harkness: Fall of the Coven

By Sara Shepard

When Agatha Harkness finds herself yanked out of her mysterious past and plopped in a modern-day high school, the race is on to find the key to saving her coven while discovering first love and battling an ancient foe.

Shadow Over the Pumpkin Queen

By Megan Shepherd

Follow Sally to a dark realm called Shadow Town—where a powerful foe awaits her—in the #1 New York Times bestselling series inspired by Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas!

Malevolent Souls

By Delilah S. Dawson

A spine-tingling young adult horror about the untold origins of Maleficent’s dark magic—because evil is seldom what it seems, from New York Times bestselling author, Delilah S. Dawson.

Her story begins once upon a nightmare . . .

Welcome to Merlin Academy

By Melissa de la Cruz

Brimming with mystery and magic, this new stand-alone prequel to the Descendants series stars the original class of Disney’s best-loved Villain Kids.

Before their Descendants rocked the world, the baddest villains made waves in the classroom.

Fairest of All

By Serena Valentino

This gripping novel examines the life of one of Disney’s cruelest villains: the Evil Queen.

For anyone who’s seen Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, you’ll know that the Evil Queen is one wicked woman! After all, it’s not everyone who wants to cut out their teenage step-daughter’s heart and have it delivered back in a locked keepsake box (and even if this sort of thing is a common urge, we don’t know many people who have acted upon it.)

The Winter Soldier

By Mackenzi Lee

In the third book from New York Times best-selling author Mackenzi Lee in Marvel’s Rebel and Renegade series, she explores Bucky Barnes—also known as the Winter Soldier.