Stop by the Children's Library to check out these spooky reads!

 

Boo! Stories to Make You Jump compiled by Laura Cecil, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark 

A collection of scary stories and poems, with an emphasis on monsters, ghosts, and witches. 

Creepy and True: Ghosts Unveiled! By Kerrie Logan Hollihan 

Kerrie Logan Hollihan's Ghosts Unveiled! investigates spectral appearances, unsolved mysteries, and eerie hauntings around the world: the Vanishing Hitchhiker, the child-nabbing La Llorona, demon cats and dogs, haunted schools, and even wraiths in bathrooms!  

Diane Goode’s Book of Scary Stories & Songs 

A collection of traditional tales, with some poems and songs, most on a ghostly theme. 

Field Guide to the Supernatural: Chilling with Ghosts Insha Fitzpatrick, illustrations by Lilla Bölecz 

Boo! Do you believe in ghosts? What's up with haunted houses? And how exactly do you bust a ghost? Uncover the spooky and spectral world of ghosts in Chilling with Ghosts, a field guide for the curious and the adventurous. 

Field Guide to the Supernatural: Hanging with Vampires by Insha Fitzpatrick, illustrations by Lilla Bölecz 

Discover everything about vampires in this laugh-out-loud nonfiction handbook packed with spooky legends, fascinating history, and weird facts perfect for middle-grade readers and mythology fans!  

Ghostly Evidence: Exploring the Paranormal by Kelly Milner Halls 

Are ghosts real? Many ghost sightings are easily explained. Others are harder to dismiss. Is there any proof? Kelly Milner Halls investigates eyewitness accounts from ghost hunters, mediums, and paranormal experts.   

Great Ghosts by Daniel Cohen, illustrated by David Linn 

Here are nine of the world's most frightening ghost stories. From the ghost ship that only appears to doomed sailors to the spirit who left the morgue with his body, these tales will keep readers on the edge of their seats. 

Haunted Histories: Creepy Castles, Dark Dungeons, and Powerful Palaces by J. H. Everett and Marilyn Scott-Waters 

Readers will discover fascinating facts about calamitous events throughout history as they explore castles, palaces and dungeons and those infamous figures associated with each.   

Hocus Pocus Spell Book: A Guide to Spells, Potions, and Hexes for the Aspiring Salem Witch by Eric Geron 

Fans of the annual Halloween favorite, Hocus Pocus will love this enchanting title featuring spells, potions, witch history, and more!   

The Scary Book complied by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson, illustrated by Chris Demarest, Marilyn Hirsh, Arnold Lobel, and Dirk Zimmer 

A collection of spooky stories, poems, riddles, tricks, and tongue twisters. 

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones collected from folklore and retold by Alvin Schwartz, drawings by Stephen Gammell 

Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny, and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps. 

Spooky & Spookier: Four American Ghost Stories by Lori Haskins Houran, illustrations by Viviana Diaz 

Recounts four fact-based tales of hauntings, including a ghost horse on the coast of Massachusetts, a haunted painting at a Virginian plantation, a skeleton in Colorado, and a ghostly sea captain in California.