Horror - Kids Fiction

A promise broken. A bond betrayed. What do you do when an oath of devotion threatens to destroy the one you love? "The drama is high" (Booklist) in this paranormal sequel to Swoon. It's been six months since ghost-turned-golem Sinclair Youngblood Powers confessed his...

The party room. On Manhattan's Upper East Side. Everybody's fabulous. No one gets carded. Then someone dies. The Party Room is where the prep school crowd goes to drink up and hook up. The cocktails are chill and the bartender's hot. Everyone knows everyone...

The Monkey's Paw: A Story in Three Scenes is a classic horror short story written by William Wymark Jacobs and first published in 1902. The story is set in England and revolves around the White family, who receive a mysterious monkey's paw from a...

A zombie, made of unread and discarded books, comes to life during a lighting storm. A young boy makes the mistake of visiting the library after hours, and comes face to face with the hungry creatureAuthor: Michael DahlISBN-10: 1434221458ISBN-13: 9781434221452Publisher: Stone Arch BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A New York Times bestseller, The Night Gardener is a Victorian ghost story with shades of Washington Irving and Henry James. More than just a spooky tale, it's also a moral fable about human greed and the power of storytelling.The Night Gardener follows two...

In Fright Knight, Mike loves the odd objects in his father's museum on Fear Street. His favorite is a suit of armor. That is, until he sees a pair of glowing eyes inside the helmet. Until the knight lifts its arm and points its...

They say the dead should rest in peace. Not all the dead agree. This start to The Undertaken trilogy is a "thought-provoking gothic fantasy" and a "genuinely eerie tale" (Publishers Weekly). When Silas Umber's father, Amos, doesn't come home from work one night, Silas...

At the end of The Light, Book One of the Morpheus Road trilogy, Marshall learned the truth about what happened to his best friend Cooper. Now in Book Two, the POV switches to Cooper and we get to see his side of the mystery....

While poking around their neighborhood, mystery-solving, swamp monster-fighting middle-graders Arlie and Ty fi nd a buried coffee can fi lled with the bones of a hamster and the handwritten curse (on glittery unicorn notepaper) from his home-schooled owner, Mandy: "Here lies Cuddles McGee. A...

ATAC Briefing for Agents Frank and Joe Hardy: Special Paranormal Operation MISSION: Investigate possible supernatural disturbances at the Undercliff House of Detention, formerly an insane asylum in the 1800s. LOCATION: Juvenile detention center in Glastonbury, CT. POTENTIAL VICTIMS: Many of the inmates appear to...

Her big sister bosses her around; her mom makes her dog-sit Mr. Boots, the family's well-dressed Chihuahua; and she's convinced a strange and squishy swamp creature that lives down at the lake is eating high school kids. When no one believes her, Arlie and...

Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he's had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger--a force he calls "the venom." Ever since he was eight years...

Skelly, a little skeleton girl, finds a bone one day. Who could it belong to? As Skelly searches for the bone's owner, she questions everyone from her skeletal goldfish, to her man-eating plants, to the monster who lives beneath the stairs. Finally, Skelly locates...

All magic has its price, and no one knows that better than Victoria Warrick. Gifted with a centuries-old blood curse, Tori has finally learned to master her blood's demands and has emerged triumphant with Christian Devereux, a vampire overlord, at her side. But the...

Reaching for her dream, Limpy unleashes a cute, fluffy, nightmare ...Keep in a cold, dark place. That's what's written like some ancient law on every bag of potatoes the family farms. And it's where Limpy fears she will always remain. It's also carved on...

With all their toys and treats packed away, Chomper and Coco learned it was moving day. After they arrive at their new home they discover they're not alone. The house is haunted by a very scary ghost named Pumpkin. Will Pumpkin scare the Nuggies...

An otherworldly, evil and dangerous force infests America's oldest and most haunted city, St. Augustine, Florida. Everyone living there, or visiting, is at risk in ways too horrible to imagine. Standing between this invader and the people of St. Augustine are teenagers Jeff and...

"A book that will serve its purpose well, especially if used in conjunction with other spooky story collections." -School Library JournalEverybody loves a scary story and nobody more than kids, but these tales--collected from kids themselves - are particular favorites. These traditional scary stories...

For ages ten and upJewish stories of the supernatural are nothing new. The very first Jewish ghost story appears in the Bible. This collection offers contemporary tales with modern-day children as the main characters. The stories, each illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, are suspenseful and...

For use in schools and libraries only. An old man finds his cabin invaded by an eerie creature searching for something called a tailypo.Author: Joanna GaldoneISBN-10: 080853422XISBN-13: 9780808534228Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/1984Pages: 40Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 7.52h x 9.68w x 0.36dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.5Point Value:...

This fall-flavored adventure for the Boxcar Children takes the Aldens to a New England farm that has more than its share of strange occurrences. Every year at the Beckett farm, visitors come to buy pumpkins and go on hayrides, but this year something is...

The Aldens' boxcar is the perfect place for games, picnics, sleepovers, and fun. But is it also the perfect place for ghosts? When strange things start happening there, Benny is convinced that the boxcar is haunted. Will the Boxcar Children be able to scare...

A new spooky 3-in-1 bind-up--perfect for Halloween! Includes three ghostly Boxcar mysteries. The Mystery of the Midnight Dog (#81): A small Southern town is full of stories--including one about a ghostly dog that walks in the night! The Ghost at the Drive-In Movie (#116):...

The Aldens visit the upstate New York town where the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was set and discover a headless horseman mystery all their own! Their friend's ghost tour business is threatened by a spooky figure on horseback who is throwing gory pumpkins. Who--or...

The Aldens visit Goldwin University, where Grandfather attended college. The old library is about to be torn down. But legend says the stone gargoyles guarding the roof of the old building will do anything to protect it--even fly. When the creatures begin appearing outside...

The old abandoned school in Silver City is being fixed up as an art center and the Boxcar Children volunteer to help clean up the place. But the other volunteers are scared by the spooky goings-on in the school--doors lock by themselves, and chalkboard...

The Aldens visit Ireland and stay in a beautiful castle that's now a hotel! But the caretaker seems very superstitious, and at night they see a mysterious figure who walks the halls carrying a lantern. Could it be one of the banshees of ancient...

"Exactly the sort of grisly, gross, and hilarious stuff that kids will love " -- Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl Retired zombie rock star Vein now lives in the snowy mountains of Tibet, but returning his tongue proves surprisingly easy for Luke, Resus,...

The ninth crazy adventure in this comedy horror series for ghouls and girls may keep them up at night -- reading under the covers When Luke and Resus wake up to discover that Cleo has been kidnapped, the intrepid pair follow a perplexing trail...

A cemetery of dark secrets... and Nancy's in the middle of it Shady Glen was no different from any other cemetery -- maybe a little spooky, but harmless nonetheless. At least that's what Nancy thought until she stumbled onto a treasure map...and stumbled into...

The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death--they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories, collected and retold by folklorist Alvin Schwartz. Brought to spine-tingling, flesh-crawling life...

Witch Rabbit is the story of a lonely girl who goes on a strange and magical adventure on the night of HalloweenAuthor: Louis Hansell, Kelly Marie BradleyISBN-10: 0692776621ISBN-13: 9780692776629Publisher: New Montgomery PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2016Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.12d

"One of the most feared of a witch's powers is that of the evil eye..." After throwing Mrs. Tuggle's evil glass eye into the creek, Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, anticipate a soothing summer. But when Lynn notices some strange-looking purple plants growing...

Dear possible reader of this book, I want to be a writer, just like my uncle Harold, who wrote a bunch of books about our friend Bunnicula. So I wrote this story. And boy Did I ever get into trouble My friend Delilah stopped...

When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.Author: Jacqueline WestISBN-10: 1410431398ISBN-13: 9781410431394Publisher: Thorndike PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2010Pages: 267Format:...

"Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Harry Potter, with bug-filled corpses. Fans of comic-book heroes and video games will not be disappointed, and will be eager for further adventures. Fast paced and surprisingly moving."--School Library JournalTwelve-year-old Will Ritter and his rag-tag army of teenage...

In this delightfully creepy novel from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Ronald L. Smith, twelve-year-old Simon thinks he was abducted by aliens. But is it real, or just his over-active imagination? Perfect for fans of Mary Downing Hahn and Louis Sachar....

The Inn Between by Marina Cohen is a deliciously creepy horror story for middle-grade readers that is as smart as it is full of heart. 11-year old Quinn has had some bad experiences lately. She was caught cheating in school, and then one day,...

Sixteen year old Addison Monroe and her friends think they've hit the jackpot when they win a contest that will allow them to go on a televised ghost investigation with the nationally renowned TV paranormal investigative team, The Ghost Dudes. With cameras rolling, the...

THE BITE IS WORSE THAN THE BARK The rural area where nineteen-year-old Aiken Pine grew up is a place that nobody seems to leave, but Aiken is one that got away-at least for a little while.Before Aiken became a high school dropout, he had...

Throughout history there are folklore legends of hauntings, malevolence ghost, witches curses and strange creatures in the night. These stories may be of fiction by nature and the product of one's imaginations. For my family and myself our experiences are real, some happened decades...

Lisette Beaucaire was angry when her parents sent her away from Paris that September day in 1940. And although she knew that with the Nazis occupying the city she'd be safer at her Aunt Josephine's farm in the Dordogne valley, Lisette resented her "exile."...

Spring Hollow has always been haunted... Tonight the ghosts step out of the shadows On the night before Brenna Guin's annual July 4th Sleepover Extravaganza, she discovers her house is haunted by the ghost of Harvey Westmore, a magician. Which, she decides, is perfect....

Pick a book. Grow a Reader This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books...

The original books featuring the scariest creatures from the Goosebumps movie, in theaters October 16, 2015 Amy's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, has lost his head...for real. So Amy begs her family for a new dummy. That's when her dad finds Slappy in a local pawnshop....

The infamous, Most Wanted Goosebumps characters are out on the loose and they're coming after you Catch them all, undead or alive Ray Gordon really likes the circus. His uncle, Theo, is a performer in Koko's Klown Academy and he invites Ray to come...

A creepy mummy monster is on the loose in Stermont This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will...

Goosebumps Wanted: The Haunted Mask, two spookily linked Halloween stories- now in paperback From horror master R.L. Stine come two new chilling stories in one spooky standalone: Lu-Ann Franklin usually loves Halloween. Not this year. Her best friend, Devin O'Bannon, is going away for...

Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. No way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower....

The sequel to Macabre Manifesto, Omar Lennyx once again stalks the supernatural and the super terrifying in two new tales: A Bad Case of Lycanthropy--Lennyx journeys to Washington State on the trail of a killer beast--and soon becomes the hunted The Vodyanoi--An ages-old monster...