Uncanny Icons Books in Order

Uncanny Icons is Kevin Miller's spooky series, but it does not work like a straight line of sequels. Instead, each book takes a familiar Halloween image and builds a new story around it. Pumpkins, brooms, and the other symbols planned for the series are not just decoration here. Miller treats them as doors into paranormal mysteries for teen readers, usually with ordinary lives, local settings, and one strong unsettling idea at the center.

It is creepy, not gory.

Pumpkins shows the approach clearly. Jeremy Fisher is already having a hard time before anything supernatural happens. He is grieving, isolated, bullied, and carrying the fallout of a small crime. Then Halloween approaches, eerie jack-o'-lanterns begin appearing around town, and Jeremy and Roxanne are pulled into a threat that feels bigger than school drama but still tied to their personal lives. The suspense works because the paranormal plot grows out of feelings that are already real.

Brooms proves the series is not tied to one cast or one formula. Maggie Addison is a hockey player, not a ghost-hunter, and she heads into the book angry, embarrassed, and sure of what counts as nonsense. After a brawl gets her suspended, she is sent to a remote northern community on Reindeer Lake in Saskatchewan, where talk of witches, curling, and the Deep Bay Monster starts to sound less easy to dismiss. That shift in protagonist and setting keeps the series fresh while holding onto the same mix of character tension and eerie escalation.

The big link between the books is tone and design. Each story starts with something recognizable from Halloween culture and then grounds it in teen problems like reputation, grief, loneliness, belonging, or the pressure to act tougher than you feel. Miller likes the point where skepticism starts to wobble. His characters usually begin with one idea of the world and have to decide what to do when the strange things around them refuse to stay symbolic.

Saskatchewan matters here, too. Small towns, remote northern spaces, local legends, and long fall or winter nights make these books feel particular rather than generic. The supernatural elements may be unusual, but the settings are solid enough that the weirdness lands harder. Even Brooms, which happily mixes witches, lake-monster lore, and curling, feels grounded because the people and place come first.

Human problems first, hauntings second.

If you want YA or upper middle grade books that lean eerie rather than graphic, this series fits well. Start with Pumpkins if you want a small-town Halloween mystery, or Brooms if witches, monsters, and curling sound like your kind of strange. Either way, Uncanny Icons is built on a smart idea, taking familiar seasonal symbols and turning them into stories with real emotional stakes.