Children

Recommended Reading

Scary Stories

• The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
• School of the Dead by Avi
• The Seer of Shadows by Avi
• The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief and Sinister by Stephan Bachmann
• The Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting by Joe Ballarini
• The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
• Seraphina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
• Doll Bones by Holly Black
• The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier
• Bearwalker by Joseph Bruchac
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia C. DeFelice
• Momotaro: Xander and the Island of Lost Monsters by Margaret Dilloway
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Guys Read: Terrifying Tales
• One For Sorrow: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
• Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
• The Curse of the Were-Hyena by Bruce Hale
• Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown by Jason Hawes
• Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz
• The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
• The Most Frightening Story Ever Told by Philip Kerr
• Scepter of the Ancients by Derek Landy
• The Year of Shadows by Claire Legrand
• The Murk by Robert Lettrick
• The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd
• The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
• More Bones: Scary Stories From Around the World by Arielle North Olson
• The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki
• Clockwork by Philip Pullman
• Goth Girl and the Ghost of the Mouse by Chris Riddell
• The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
• Guys Read: Thriller by Jon Scieszka
• Haunted Houses by Robert San Souci
• It's the First Day of School -- Forever!  by R. L. Stine
• Spellbinder by Helen Stringer
• Lockwood and Co.: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
• Charlie and the Grandmothers by Katy Towell
• The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage
• Stolen by Vivian Vande Velde
• The Shadows by Jacqueline West
• Crandall's Castle by Betty Ren Wright