Halloween is fast upon us, have you sorted your costume yet? If you’re a bookworm looking for inspiration, I have a list of literary characters you could dress up as!

Let’s break the mould of the nameless witch, a black cat or a mummy for Halloween and pick some of the more interesting characters from books to dress up as! I’ve categorised this by books and then picked out my top three most unique and fun character dress up ideas. This list includes classics, children’s, fantasies and young adult novels and for fun I’ve added a couples category.

Classics

Alice in Wonderland

The Mad Hatter

Cheshire Cat

Caterpillar – Because why not!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

A Golden Ticket –  I legit did this one year, I had two giant pieces of gold card strapped over my shoulders. 

Ompa Lumpa

Grandpa Joe

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Children’s

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Count Olaf – In whichever form you may choose!

Uncle Monty

Sunny Baudelaire

The Magic Faraway Tree

Moonface

Dame Slap

The Saucepan Man

Fantasy

Harry Potter

Lune Lovegood

Fluffy – Please can someone do this, I think it would be a great feat and well worth it! 

Professor Umbridge

His Dark Materials

Iorek Byrnison – Honestly, I desperately want to see what people come up with for this one! 

Lee Scoresby

Mrs Coulter

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Young Adult

The Grishaverse

(Thanks Layla for your help with this one!)

Kaz Brekker

Inej Ghafa

Nikoli Lantsov

A Darker Shade of Magic

Lila Baird

Allucard Emery

Kell

Couples Costumes

Baz and Simon (Carry On)

Lazlo and  Sarai (Strange the Dreamer)

Wylan van Eck and Jesper Fahey (Six of Crows)

Who will you be dressing up as for Halloween?