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Spooky Stories - Picture Books

5-minute spooky Disney stories - A collection of Halloween stories featuring Disney characters
The good, the bad, and the spooky by Jory John - When Bad Seed cannot find an amazing costume for Halloween night, he postpones trick-or-treating for everyone else until he finds the perfect one
We're going on a goon hunt : a petrifying parody by Michael Rex - A family treks through spooky landscapes looking for a monster, only to run back home when they actually find one
Creepy carrots! by Aaron Reynolds - The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes
Creepy pair of underwear! by Aaron Reynolds - A young rabbit is frightened by his underwear
Spooky America : four real ghost stories by Lori Haskins - Recounts four fact-based tales of hauntings, including a ghost horse on the coast of Massachusetts and a haunted painting at a Virginia plantation
The little ghost who was a quilt by Riel Nason - Ghosts are supposed to be sheets, light as air and able to whirl and twirl and float and soar. But the little ghost who is a quilt has n experience that no other ghost could have
Hardly haunted by Jessie Sima - When a house believes she is haunted, she tries everything in her power to stop it in order to get people to move in--until she realizes that she is fine just the way she is
In a dark, dark room : and other scary stories by Alvin Schwartz - Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries
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Spooky Stories - Non-fiction

Ask the bones : scary stories from around the world by Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz - A collection of scary folktales from countries around the world including China, Russia, Spain, and the United States
Short & shivery : thirty chilling tales by Robert D. San Souci - A collection of thirty short and spooky tales from the folklore of Russia, Virginia, Ireland, Canada, and other areas of the world
More short & shivery : thirty terrifying tales by Robert D. San Souci - A collection of scary folktales from the United States, China, England, Italy, Russia, and other countries around the world
Even more short & shivery : thirty spine-tingling stories by Robert D. San Souci - A collection of scary traditional tales from all over the world
Scary stories to tell in the dark by Alvin Schwartz - Collects tales from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings
More scary stories to tell in the dark by Alvin Schwartz - More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs
Scary stories 3 : more tales to chill your bones by Alvin Schwartz - Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena
Favorite scary stories of American children by Richard and Judy Dockrey Young - A collection, selected by children as their favorites, of twenty-three spooky tales from a variety of ethnic traditions
Beware! : R.L. Stine picks his favorite scary stories by R.L. Stine - A selection of unsettling stories by such authors as Ray Bradbury, William Sleator, Robert Service, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Jane Yolen, and Mr. Stine himself
The cabinet of curiosities : 36 tales brief & sinister by Stefan Bachmann - A collection of almost forty eerie, mysterious, intriguing, and very short stories by the acclaimed authors Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire LeGrand, and Emma Trevayne
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Ghosts and bogles by Dinah Starkey - Retellings of sixteen spooky stories collected from various parts of the British Isles about ghosts and other supernatural beings
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Spooky Stories - Fiction

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Out to get you : 13 tales of weirdness and woe by Josh Allen - A collection of thirteen short stories that reveals frightening secrets lurking in everyday objects
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier - Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger
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The seer of shadows by Avi - In New York City in 1872, Horace becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when he accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, Horace's life takes a frightening turn
Serafina and the black cloak by Robert Beatty - In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past
Doll bones by Holly Black - Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from human ashes
The last kids on Earth by Max Brallier - After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg
The doll's eye by Marina Cohen - The day Hadley discovers the lone glass eye in the empty attic of her new house is the day her life changes forever
Coraline by Neil Gaiman - Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own
The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman - After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own
Guys read. Terrifying tales by Jon Scieszka - Eleven masters of suspense come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers, and scaring your friends' pants off
All the lovely bad ones : a ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn - While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace"
Room of shadows by Ronald Kidd - After moving into a creepy house, David begins having strange dreams about a secret room, and violent pranks that resemble Edgar Allen Poe's stories follow him everywhere
The curse of the campfire weenies and other warped and creepy tales by David Lubar - Thirty-five creepy stories about pigeons, ancient predators, Girl Scouts, and other terrifying things
Dare to be scared : thirteen stories to chill and thrill by Robert San Souci - Thirteen short stories about ghosts, monsters, spirits, and other scary creatures will give the reader thrills and chills
Double-dare to be scared : another thirteen chilling tales by Robert D. San Souci - Robert D. San Souci, popular author of Dare to Be Scared, has spun another thirteen masterful tales to keep nightlights burning across the country
Zombie Kid by J. Scott Savage - Nick, Carter, and Angelo are obsessed with monsters and they go on an adventure to reverse a curse
Krazyland by Mar Romasco-Moore - Another world exists beneath Krazytown's ball pit. A world where the entertainment park's games come to life. And if he isn't careful, Nathan is going to be the next one sucked under!
Only if you dare : 13 stories of darkness and doom by Josh Allen - A collection of thirteen short stories showing how horribly wrong food, dating, jobs, and even a bed pillow can be
The Clackity by Lora Senf - To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief
It found us by Lindsay Currie - From the author of Scritch Scratch and The Girl in White comes a new spooky mystery about a girl detective who must decode a series of ominous clues tied to a century-old tragedy to find a missing teenager
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Spooky Stories - Junior High

Scary stories for young foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker - A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness
Scary stories for young foxes : the City by Christian McKay Heidicker - Cozy and her littermates are driven from their suburban den to confront a new set of dangers
Ghostlight by Kenneth Oppel - Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day
The most frightening story ever told by Philip Kerr - Scary-story enthusiast Billy Shivers helps out when the Haunted House of Books threatens to go out of business
Fetch by Scott Cawthon - "After years of being kicked around, Greg, Alec, and Oscar are ready to take control of their lives. But as these three will learn, control is a fragile thing in the sinister world of Five Nights at Freddy's
Gallowgate by K.R. Alexander - Sixth-grader Sebastian Wight is cursed with the ability to see the dead, but now a nasty spirit, the shadowman, is determined to claim him for the dead
Riley's ghost by John David Anderson - Locked in the science closet after hours by the cool girls who have rejected her, Riley escapes to discover that all the school doors are locked, the phones are dead, and the lights aren't working
Thornhill by Pam Smy - Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door
City of ghosts by Victoria Schwab - Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts
Infected by Terrance Crawford - When an infection threatens to turn everyone into mindless, dangerous monsters, it is up to a few desperate survivors to get survive long enough to find a cure