Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

In honor of Halloween I thought I'd write about Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.  The story is impressively and creepily paired with aged photographs of a levitating girl, a human-faced dog, a contortionist, and many more.  As a kid, Jacob has been regaled with his grandfather's unbelievable stories of Miss Peregrine and his peculiar friends on some distant island.  Years later, after a strange phone call from his grandfather, Jacob goes to his house to find his grandfather out back in the forest, bleeding and dying.  Jacob tries to make sense of his grandfathers last words but he is frightened by a mysterious creature nearby in the woods.  Now Jacob, with his grandfather's last words, travels to a small Welsh island to try and find out more about his grandfather's life.  What he ends up finding can't possibly be true but he starts believing all his grandfather's peculiar stories.