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Children's Recommendations - Spooky Stories

Children's - Spooky Stories - Picture Books

Cover of How to Make Friends with a Ghost by Rebecca Green.
ISBN: 9781101919019
Title: How to Make Friends with a Ghost
Author: Green, Rebecca
Cover of The Dark by Lemony Snicket.
ISBN: 9780316187480
Title: The Dark
Author: Snicket, Lemony
Cover of Melvina Whitmoore (More or Less a Horror Story) by Faith Capalia.
ISBN: 9780063247826
Title: Melvina Whitmoore
Author: Capalia, Faith
Cover of Benita and the Night Creatures by Mariana Llanos.
ISBN: 9798888590027
Title: Benita and the Night Creatures
Author: Llanos, Mariana
Cover of At the Old Haunted House by Helen Ketteman.
ISBN: 9781477847695
Title: At the Old Haunted House
Author: Ketteman, Helen
Cover of The Scariest Kitten in the World by Kate Messner.
ISBN: 9780374390051
Title: The Scariest Kitten in the World
Author: Messner, Kate
5-minute spooky Disney stories
ISBN: 9781423189152
Title: 5-minute spooky Disney stories - A collection of Halloween stories featuring Disney characters
The good, the bad, and the spooky
ISBN: 9780062954541
Title: 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
Author: John, Jory, author.
Cover of Gustavo, the Shy Ghost by Flavia Z. Drago.
ISBN: 9781536211146
Title: Gustavo, the Shy Ghost
Author: Drago, Flavia Z.
Creepy carrots!
ISBN: 9781442402973
Title: 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
Author: Reynolds, Aaron, 1970-
Creepy pair of underwear!
ISBN: 9781442402980
Title: Creepy pair of underwear! by Aaron Reynolds - A young rabbit is frightened by his underwear
Author: Reynolds, Aaron, 1970- author.
The little ghost who was a quilt
ISBN: 9780735264472
Title: 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
Author: Nason, Riel, 1969- author.
Hardly haunted
ISBN: 9781534441705
Title: 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
Author: Sima, Jessie, author, illustrator.
Cover of I Want to Be in a Scary Story by Sean Taylor.
ISBN: 9780763689537
Title: I Want to Be in a Scary Story
Author: Taylor, Sean
Cover of Leila, the Perfect Witch by Flavia Z. Drago.
ISBN: 9781536220506
Title: Leila, the Perfect Witch
Author: Drago, Flavia Z.
Cover of I Will Read to You by Gideon Sterer.
ISBN: 9780316592611
Title: I Will Read to You
Author: Sterer, Gideon
Cover of There's a Ghost In This House by Oliver Jeffers.
ISBN: 9780593466186
Title: There's a Ghost In This House
Author: Jeffers, Oliver

Children's - Spooky Stories - Readers

Cover of Ghost Hunt! by Melissa Lagonegro.
ISBN: 9780736482615
Title: Ghost Hunt!
Author: Lagonegro, Melissa
Cover of Eva Sees a Ghost by Rebecca Elliott.
ISBN: 9780545787840
Title: Eva Sees a Ghost
Author: Elliott, Rebecca
Cover of Spooky & Spookier: Four American Ghost Stories by Lori Haskins Houran.
ISBN: 9780553533965
Title: Spooky & Spookier
Author: Houran, Lori Haskins
Cover of Fly Guy and the Frankenfly by Tedd Arnold.
ISBN: 9781480608160
Title: Fly Guy and the Frankenfly
Author: Arnold, Tedd
Cover of Flat Stanley and the Haunted House by Jeff Brown.
ISBN: 9780061430046
Title: Flat Stanley and the Haunted House
Author: Brown, Jeff
Cover of Trucktown: The Spooky Tire by Jon Scieszka.
ISBN: 9781416941538
Title: The Spooky Tire
Author: Scieszka, Jon
Cover of Minnie and Moo and the Haunted Sweater by Denys Cazet.
ISBN: 9780060730178
Title: Minnie and Moo and the Haunted Sweater
Author: Cazet, Denys
Cover of Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House by Doug Cushman.
ISBN: 9780060737641
Title: Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House
Author: Cushman, Doug
Cover of In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alan Schwartz.
ISBN: 9780062643384
Title: In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Author: Schwartz, Alvin
Cover of Junior Monster Scouts: Don't Wake Dracula by Joe McGee.
ISBN: 9781223280387
Title: Don't Wake Dracula
Author: McGee, Joe

Children's - Spooky Stories - Fast & Fun

Cover of My Weird School Special: Fright Night! by Dan Gutman.
ISBN: 9780063290242
Title: Fright Night!
Author: Gutman, Dan
Cover of Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol: The Haunted House Next Door by Andres Miedoso.
ISBN: 9781534410398
Title: The Haunted House Next Door
Author: Miedoso, Andres
Cover of Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales: Troubling Tonsils! by Aaron Reynolds.
ISBN: 9781665961080
Title: Troubling Tonsils!
Author: Reynolds, Aaron
Cover of Shiver by the Sea: Bella and the Vampire by Erin Dionne.
ISBN: 9781645951698
Title: Bella and the Vampire
Author: Dionne, Erin
Cover of Frankie D, Vegan Vampire by Sally Dutra.
ISBN: 9781525304606
Title: Frankie D, Vegan Vampire
Author: Dutra, Sally
Cover of The Woofmore Is Not Haunted by Donna Gephart.
ISBN: 9781419767647
Title: The Woofmore Is Not Haunted
Author: Gephart, Donna
Cover of Junior Monster Scouts: The Monster Squad by Joe McGee.
ISBN: 9781534436770
Title: The Monster Squad
Author: McGee, Joe
Cover of Scare School Diaries: Welcome to Scare School by Jarrett Lerner.
ISBN: 9781665922098
Title: Welcome to Scare School
Author: Lerner, Jarrett
Cover of The Terribles: Welcome to Stubtoe Elementary by Travis Nichols.
ISBN: 9780593425718
Title: Welcome to Stubtoe Elementary
Author: Nichols, Travis
Cover of Monster and Boy by Hannah Barnaby
ISBN: 9781250217837
Title: Monster and Boy
Author: Barnaby, Hannah Rodgers

Children's - Spooky Stories - Fiction

Cover of A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga.
ISBN: 9780062956705
Title: A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
Author: Warga, Jasmine
The Night Gardener
ISBN: 9781419715310
Title: 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
Author: Auxier, Jonathan.
Doll bones
ISBN: 9781416963981
Title: 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
Author: Black, Holly.
Cover of Scaring and Daring.
ISBN: 9780063372474
Title: Scaring and Daring
Author: Guignard, Eric J.
Cover of Tales From Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex by Justina Ireland.
ISBN: 9780063287822
Title: The Boo Hag Flex
Author: Ireland, Justina
Cover of The Chronicles of Viktor Valentine by Z Brewer.
ISBN: 9780063245723
Title: The Chronicles of Viktor Valentine
Author: Brewer, Z
Cover of Another by Paul Tremblay.
ISBN: 9780063396357
Title: Another
Author: Tremblay, Paul
The last kids on Earth
ISBN: 9780670016617
Title: 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
Author: Brallier, Max, author.
Cover of Los Monstruos: Felice and the Wailing Woman by Diana Lopez.
ISBN: 9780593326497
Title: Felice and the Wailing Woman
Author: López, Diana
Cover of The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things by Rob Renzetti.
ISBN: 9780593519523
Title: The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things
Author: Renzetti, Robert
Coraline
ISBN: 0066237440
Title: 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
Author: Gaiman, Neil.
The graveyard book
ISBN: 9780060530938
Title: 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
Author: Gaiman, Neil.
Cover of Dead Good Detectives by Jenny McLachlan.
ISBN: 9780063329829
Title: Dead Good Detectives
Author: McLachlan, Jenny
All the lovely bad ones
ISBN: 9780618854677
Title: 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"
Author: Hahn, Mary Downing.
Room of shadows
ISBN: 9780807568057
Title: 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
Author: Kidd, Ronald, author.
The Clackity
ISBN: 9781665902670
Title: 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
Author: Senf, Lora, author.
It found us
ISBN: 9781728259499
Title: 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
Author: Currie, Lindsay, author.
Cover of Camp Scare by Delilah S. Dawson.
ISBN: 9780593373262
Title: Camp Scare
Author: Dawson, Delilah S.
Cover of The Thirteenth Cat by Mary Downing-Hahn.
ISBN: 9780358394082
Title: The Thirteenth Cat
Author: Hahn, Mary Downing

Children's - Spooky Stories - Graphic Novels

Cover of Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke.
ISBN: 9781250836618
Title: Things in the Basement
Author: Hatke, Ben
Cover of Misfit Mansion by Kay Davault.
ISBN: 9781665903080
Title: Misfit Mansion
Author: Davault, Kay
Cover of Eerie Tales from the School of Screams by Graham Annable.
ISBN: 9781250195043
Title: Eerie Tales from the School of Screams
Author: Annable, Graham
Cover of Ghost Book by Remy Lai.
ISBN: 9781250810410
Title: Ghost Book
Author: Lai, Remy
Cover of Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier.
ISBN: 9780545540612
Title: Ghosts
Author: Telgemeier, Raina
Cover of The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner.
ISBN: 9781534431461
Title: The Okay Witch
Author: Steinkellner, Emma
Cover of The Ghoul Next Door by Cullen Bunn.
ISBN: 9780062896100
Title: The Ghoul Next Door
Author: Bunn, Cullen
Cove of Spirit Week by Ira Marcks.
ISBN: 9780316277945
Title: Spirit Week
Author: Marcks, Ira
Cover of Batcat by Maggie Ramm.
ISBN: 9781419756573
Title: Batcat
Author: Ramm, Meggie
Cover of Goosebumps: Slappy’s Tales of Horror by R.L. Stine.
ISBN: 9780545836005
Title: Slappy’s Tales of Horror
Author: Stine, R. L.
Cover of Blood City Rollers by V.P. Anderson.
ISBN: 9780593485699
Title: Blood City Rollers
Author: Anderson, V. P.

Children's - Spooky Stories - Non-fiction

Ask the bones
ISBN: 0670875813
Title: 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
Author: Olson, Arielle North.
Short & shivery
ISBN: 9780385238861
Title: 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
Author: San Souci, Robert D.
Scary stories to tell in the dark
ISBN: 9780060835200
Title: 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
Author: Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-2011
More scary stories to tell in the dark
ISBN: 9780060835217
Title: 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
Author: Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-2011.
Scary stories 3
ISBN: 9780060835231
Title: 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
Author: Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-2011
Beware!
ISBN: 0066238420
Title: 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
ISBN: 9780062331052
Title: 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
Book cover for Ghosts and bogles by Dinah Starkey
ISBN: 0434964409
Title: 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
Author: Starkey, Dinah.