Raising Readers
Scary Stories
Little Monsters and Ghosties for the Youngest Reader
Big Lips and Hairy Arms
Jean Jackson
E/J
While having dinner together, two monsters get scared when they start receiving mysterious telephone calls.
Brave Little Monster
Ken Baker
E/B
A little monster has trouble falling asleep one night because he fears little boys and girls are hiding under his bed and in his closet.
Night of the Gargoyles
Eve Bunting
HOL B
In the middle of the night, the gargoyles that adorn the walls of an art museum come to life and frighten the night watchman.
Tell Me a Scary Story--but Not too
Scary
Carl Reiner
LIS
A little boy has an adventure in the scary basement of his mysterious new neighbor, Mr. Neewollah. Includes a CD with story read by the author.
There Are Monsters Everywhere
Mercer Mayer
E/M
A boy who is certain that his house is filled with monsters takes a karate class in order to be rid of them.
Creepy Stories for Older Readers
The Book without Words: a fable of
Medieval Magic
Avi
X Avi
The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of
the Supernatural
Pat McKissack
NB McKissack
This book received the Coretta Scott King award for 1993, and was a Newbery Honor book. A collection of ghost stories with African American themes. designed to be told during the dark thirty?the half hour before sunset when ghosts seem all too believable.
The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost
John Bellairs
X Bellairs
While thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon lies dying, possessed by an evil spirit, his friends, an elderly professor and a school friend, try to find some way to free him. Bellairs has written several good spooky mysteries.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
collected by Alvin Schwartz
X Schwartz
Probably the best collection of classic American ghost stories you will find. Also read More Scary Stories and Scary Stories 3.
Stonewords: a Ghost Story
Pam Conrad
X Conrad
Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event. Zoe rising is the sequel.