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Saturday, October 18, 2025
Halloween Health & Safety Tips 
Help keep Halloween fun and safe for your family with
these tips.
23 Halloween Dinners To Make Before a Night of Trick-or-Treating
Browse this collection of recipes that'll make all the  ghouls scream with delight.
IMBD's Top 48 Halloween Movies and TV Specials
From Hocus Pocus to IT, check out this list of spooky films just in time for Halloween.
Santa Maria Public Library Programs 
Check out some of the Library's upcoming fun events below. 
For more information, or to register for events, please call (805) 925-0994, visit our website at www.cityofsantamaria.org/library, or click on any of the event images 
below to be redirected to our Library events calendar.
Flirty Fiction Book Club
Monday, October 20
5:15 p.m., Learning Loft
  For ages 18 and up.
Registration is required. 
Teen Zone Art
Friday, October 24
3:30 p.m., Altrusa Theater
  For junior high and high school students.
No registration is required.
Día de los Muertos
Thursday, October 30
3:00 p.m., Altrusa Theater
For families of all ages.
No registration is required.
Sensory Story Time
Friday, October 31
10:00 a.m., Altrusa Theater
For ages 3 to 6.
No registration is required.  
Crafty Construction
Saturday, November 8
11:00 a.m., Altrusa Theater
For ages 6 to 12.
No registration is required. 
D&D and Board Games
@ the Library
Sunday, November 9
1:00 p.m., Shepard Hall
For ages 18 and up.
Registration is required.
Spanish Tech Help/
Ayuda Técnica en Español
Sunday, November 9
1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Learning Loft
 For ages 18 and up.
This session will be offered in Spanish.
Registration is required.
Casual Crafternoon: Fall Candles
Monday, November 10
3:30 p.m., Learning Loft
For ages 18 and up.
Registration is required. 
Adult Book Recommendations
Take a look at some of our recommended books below. 
Visit the Black Gold catalog, or call (805) 925-0994, to place a hold on these titles.
Wolf Land by Jonathan Janz
Wolf Land
by Jonathan Janz

The small town of Lakeview offers little excitement for Duane, Savannah, and their friends. They're about to endure their ten-year high school reunion when their lives are shattered by the arrival of an ancient, vengeful evil. The werewolf. The first attack leaves seven dead and four wounded. And though the beast remains on the loose and eager to spill more blood, the sleepy town is about to face an even greater terror. Because the four victims of the werewolf's fury are changing. They're experiencing unholy desires and unimaginable cravings. They'll prey on the innocent. They'll act on their basest desires. Soon, they'll plunge the entire town into a nightmare. Lakeview is about to become Wolf Land.
The Essential Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
 
 
The Essential Poe gathers the most thrilling and enthralling of Poe’s poems and short stories, including “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Raven” as well as two illuminating essays on the nature of poetry and the art of storytelling. Sweeping yet concise, this new edition offers an engaging introduction written specifically for contemporary readers, pivotal excerpts from French poet Charles Baudelaire’s path-breaking essays on Poe, and a detailed biographical timeline of Poe’s brief, turbulent life.
 
'Salem's lot by Stephen King
'Salem's lot
by Stephen King

In a classic tale of horror by Stephen King, a man returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to find it infested with vampires. 
Children's Book Recommendations
Vamos! Let's celebrate Halloween and Dâia de los Muertos by Raâul the Third
Vamos! Let's celebrate Halloween and Dâia de los Muertos
by Raâul the Third

With easy-to-learn Spanish vocabulary and packed with cultural details, this vibrant story of two fall holidays follows Little Lobo and his friends as they decorate ofrendas in the cemetery after celebrating Halloween so they can enjoy Día de los Muertos with the spirits of those they love. 
The zombees by Justin Colâon
The Zombees
by Justin Colâon

On Halloween, a swarm of undead bees invades the town to deliver spooks and sweets.
Teen Book Recommendations
The last Halloween. :  Children Volume 1, Children by Abby Howard
The Last Halloween: Children Volume 1, Children
by Abby Howard

In a gothic adventure at the end of the world, a 10-year-old girl and a motley crew of ghouls must stop an invading horde of monsters on a fateful Halloween night.
 
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