Scary Books

All the lovely bad ones

Hahn, Mary Downing,


Originally published: New York : Clarion Books, 2008. 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."
Date Published:2008

Attack of the jack-o'-lanterns

Stine, R. L.,


Drew and her friend Walker, desperate to get revenge against Tabby and Lee for a nasty Halloween joke, come up with a plan designed to scare the wits out of the snobby duo.
Date Published:1996

Attack of the mutant

Stine, R. L.,


Skipper Matthews gets lost in a strange part of town and finds himself in front of a building which looks just like the headquarters of his favorite comic book supervillain.
Date Published:1994

Beware of the Haunted Eye

Barnes, Dawn, 1957-,


Max and the three other members of the Black Belt Club travel to the world of Oculus, where they use teamwork, intelligence, and martial arts skills to defeat the evil Haunted Eye.
Date Published:2007

The blob that ate everyone

Stine, R. L.,


Reprint. Originally published: 1997. Would-be horror novelist Zackie Beauchamp finds a beat-up old typewriter in a burned-out antique store and takes it home to begin writing his opus about a giant, pink blob monster, only to discover that every word he writes is coming true.
Date Published:2006

The case of the haunted haunted house

Montgomery, Lewis B.,


Library Media Connection, November 2009. Amateur detectives Milo and Jazz try to figure out if the haunted house they are building for the school fair has a real ghost.
Date Published:2009

Class trip to the haunted house

Jones, Marcia Thornton,


"A Little Apple paperback." Mr. Morton's fifth-grade class takes a trip to the Blackburn mansion when Andrew announces that his family has purchased the property and intends to tear it down.
Date Published:2005

Claws!

Stine, R. L.,


Mickey and his best friend, Amanda, are in charge of watching their vacationing neighbors' cat, Bella, but when Bella is hit by a truck, Mickey and Amanda decide to replace her with a look-alike from the local pet store, a plan that backfires when the cat seems to have an evil streak that could destroy them all.
Date Published:2011

Deep and dark and dangerous

Hahn, Mary Downing,


Originally published: New York : Clarion Books, c2007. When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Date Published:2007

Flat Stanley and the haunted house

Houran, Lori Haskins,


"2, Reading with Help." Stanley Lambchop and his younger brother, Arthur, are excited about the Halloween party at school, and when they notice a bully picking on one of their friends, they come up with a plan to help.
Date Published:2010

The girl in the locked room : a ghost story /

Hahn, Mary Downing,


School Library Journal, June 2018. Booklist, August 2018. Horn Book, September 2018. Kirkus Review, June 2018. Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.
Date Published:2018

Golden & Grey : a good day for haunting /

Arnold, Louise, 1979-,


When the television show "Exceedingly Haunted Homes of England" hears rumors of ghosts at Tom Golden's school, he and his "invisible friends" must track down some ghosts that have turned visible in order to restore the balance between the ghost and human worlds.
Date Published:2008

Guest : a changeling tale /

Hahn, Mary Downing,


School Library Journal, September 2019. Horn Book, September 2019. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), July 2019. Kirkus Review, June 2019. Publishers Weekly Annex, September 2019. Young Mollie traverses eerie, perilous lands to retrieve her baby brother, Thomas, from the Kinde Folke, malicious sprites who snatched him and left a hideous changeling in his place.
Date Published:2019

Haunted castle on Hallows Eve

Osborne, Mary Pope,


"A Stepping Stone book." In their magic treehouse, Jack and Annie are again transported to King Arthur's realm, where invisible beings, giant ravens, and mistaken magic spells have a duke's castle in an uproar on Halloween night.
Date Published:2010

Haunted dolls

Katz, Susan B., 1971-,


Spooky dolls -- Haunted dolls in folklore -- Haunted dolls around the world -- Haunted dolls in books and on-screen. Kids around the world play with dolls-but what if a doll was haunted? Some think dolls can have powers or even cause bad things to happen. This scary-yet-fun book takes a look at spooky dolls!
Date Published:2024

Haunted hike

Carman, Patrick,


Map on endpapers. Elliot and his squirrel friends must discover who is haunting Camp Canyon before going trick-or-treating.
Date Published:2008

Haunted history

Berne, Emma Carlson, 1979-,


Haunted battlefield -- Bone tunnels -- Into the tower -- Ghosts in the White House -- Ghostly gold rush. From lonely battlefields to shadowy tunnels, some places have dark histories... and they may be haunted. Learn the history of famous haunted landmarks and uncover the eerie stories that surround them.
Date Published:2024

Heads, you lose!

Stine, R. L.,


Jessica and Ryan are transported to a terrifying new world after flipping a two-headed coin from the HorrorLand souvenir shop and must reunite a prince with his missing head in order to escape.
Date Published:2010

It's the first day of school-- forever!

Stine, R. L.,


Everything goes wrong for eleven-year-old Artie on his first day at Ardmore Middle School, from the moment his alarm goes off until the next morning, when everything is repeated exactly the same way.
Date Published:2011

My hairiest adventure

Stine, R. L.,


Larry Boyd and some of his friends discover a bottle of INSTA-TAN but when they rub it on the result is dark spikey hair on their hands and faces; hair that will not quit growing.
Date Published:1994