October: Our Autumnal Favorites

Halloween, Grandma Moses, 1955

Ariel K. Moniz (she/her) is a queer Black poetess and…

Spooky season has arrived once again, and we’re more than thrilled to be free from the summer heatwaves. To celebrate cooler months, we thought we’d put together a selection of our favorite autumnal picks: books, shows, films, music, art, and more!

Also take a look at last year’s October: A Month In Favorites, which is packed with more specifically Halloween-inspired suggestions to help you make the most out of this wonderful time of year.

Poetry

Fall, leaves, fall – Emily Brontë

Autumn Rain– D.H Lawrence

Autumn Fires– Robert Louis Stevenson

Moonlit Apples– John Drinkwater

To Autumn– John Keats

Autumn– Christina Rossetti

Symphony in Yellow– Oscar Wilde

Plums– Gillian Clarke

Digging– Edward Thomas

The Wild Swans at Coole– W.B Yeats

Books

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The Secret History – Donna Tartt

Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

Don’t Look Now – Daphne du Maurier

The Lights Of Prague – Nicole Jarvis

The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix

For the Wolf – Hannah Whitten

For the Throne – Hannah Whitten

Providence Girls – Morgan Dante

The Atlas Six – Olivie Blake

Shows & Films

Over The Garden Wall

Lockwood & Co

Twin Peaks

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The Ghost Whisperer

X-Files

The Midnight Club

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Stranger Things

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities

Music

This year we’ve included both a Halloween-themed playlist and a cozy autumn inspired one. Enjoy!

Moodboards

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Ariel K. Moniz

Ariel K. Moniz (she/her) is a queer Black poetess and Hawaii local currently living abroad. She is a co-founder of The Hyacinth Review, and serves as a poetry reader for The Lumiere Review as well as the social media manager for Liminal Transit Review. She is the winner of the 2016 Droste Poetry Award and a Best of the Net nominee. Her writing has found homes with Blood Bath Literary Zine, Sledgehammer Literary Journal, Black Cat Magazine, and Sunday Mornings at the River Press, among others. She holds a B.A in English from the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where she once served as the editor-in-chief of Kanilehua Art & Literary Magazine. You can find her on her website at kissoftheseventhstar.home.blog, on Twitter @kissthe7thstar, on Instagram @kiss.of.the.seventh.star, or staring out to sea.