Scary Books

For Lucely Luna, ghosts are more than just the family business. Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join forces with Syd's witch grandmother, Babette, and her tubby tabby, Chunk, to fight the haunting head-on and reverse the curse to save the town and Lucely's firefly spirits before it's too late. --adapted...

"A life-size baby doll who stalks its prey, [a] flesh-hungry ogre who jingle jangles when he walks, [and a] haunted house just dying for a visitor. What do all these things have in common? They're scarier in the dark! . . . So turn off your lamps, click on your flashlights, and prepare--if you dare--to be utterly spooked!" -- Adapted from jacket.

"Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up...

"Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day . . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts--until he finds himself...

Mary W. Chase died on Nantucket Island just over one hundred years ago, but she is still there, in the house she once lived in, and she wants to keep it that way--but first she must somehow contact a group of children who are interested in preserving historic homes on the island.

During a long car trip, best friends Quinn and Kara explore the strange and creepy goings-on at a remote Nevada inn when Kara's family stops for the night.

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.

Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. Escuchad esta trágica historia: una familia que duerme, un asesino sin compasión y una criatura aventurera, un huérfano que escapa de la muerte. ¿O no? El pequeño escapa del peligro y consigue gatear hasta lo más alto de la colina. Detrás de la valla que se encuentra, existe un lugar oscuro y tranquilo, un cementerio lleno de una vida...

A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.

"Scary-story enthusiast Billy Shivers helps out when the Haunted House of Books threatens to go out of business"--