
October 2025 Guest Booksellers: the Authors of ‘Hollow’
The authors of the bestselling graphic novel series ‘Hollow’ will be signing copies of their books, recommending their favorites, and chatting it up with fans.

Introducing King’s Candy ‘Legends’ Bespoke Mixes
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow custom candy mixes, exclusive to Transom Bookshop and for a limited time only this Halloween season.

In-Store: Clay McLeod Chapman on Oct. 25th at 12pm
Horror stalwart Clay McLeod Chapman joins the Transom Bookshop team as a guest bookseller on Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 12pm ET.

Fiction Picks for the Non-Halloween Crowd
Chris’s latest literary fiction picks for those avoiding horror and thriller this Halloween season. PAN by Michael Clune, THE SLIP by Lucas Schaefer, and WALK SOFTLY ON THIS HEART OF MINE by Callie Collins.


“How do I get my book in your store?”
I want you to be a bestselling author, but first you have to be the best seller of your own book.



Staff Picks: Best of 2024
The beginning of the end….of the year! Celebrate our 2024 faves.


Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!)
Three esteemed writers of horror join the ranks to recommend their favorite spooky books for the season.

Staff Picks August 2024
Whimsy, wit, scandal, panic, and fateful first contact—the team leaves no stone unturned with this month's recs.

Hilarity, Heartbreak, and Writing with Constraints
Award-winning author Julie Schumacher answers a few Q’s about her new novel, The English Experience, in which a curmudgeonly professor is tasked with bringing a dozen undergrads to the UK.

Staff Picks July 2024
This month, the team shows off their insatiable curiosity and sense of adventure with a wildly diverse selection of staff picks—from the patient and lyrical, to the light and comical, to the dark and foreboding.

Staff Picks June 2024
Ask this crew for beach reads, and you get serial killers and, well, more serial killers. But also distressed stand-up comics. Happy summer!

Staff Picks May 2024
In which the team endorses surreal, weird, dark, funny, affirming, and eye-opening work — including a rare non-fiction pick.


Halfway to Halloween Celebration
Join us for a Halfway to Halloween celebration on Saturday, April 29, 2024.

Complexity, Darkness, and a Strange Sense of Fun: an Interview with Colin Winnette
Fiction writer Colin Winnette generously shares his thoughts on horror, speculative sci-fi, protagonistic (im)purity, and AI as a great motivator for creativity.

Staff Picks March 2024
Two Mona Awads is better than one, plus a bonus pick for Women’s History Month.