Scary Books

These titles range from slightly scary to truly terrifying. Reader beware! bold word

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Book cover for "Rowley Jefferson's awesome friendly spooky stories"
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"Grab a flashlight, crawl under the covers, and dive into the twisted, unexpectedly hilarious world of Rowley Jefferson's imagination. You'll meet zombies, vampires, ghosts, and much more in these comically terrifying tales. Rowley's spooky stories might leave you laughing, but beware--you could end up sleeping with the lights on!" --
Book cover for "Only if you dare"
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A collection of thirteen short stories showing how horribly wrong food, dating, jobs, and even a bed pillow can be.
Book cover for "May Bird and the ever after"
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Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters The Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogey Man.
Book cover for "The book that ate my brother"
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Jack writes a letter to the Librarian because he needs help. His brother has been eaten by a book!
Book cover for "Mothman's curse"
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"When Josie and her brother Fox discover the truth behind the legend of the Mothman, they must stop a disaster in order to break the curse that has been afflicting their town" --
Book cover for "Grave images"
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When a mysterious and sinister stranger called Abbot Stein walks into the family-owned Alpine Monuments and asks for a job etching portraits for the gravestones, thirteen-year-old Bernadette is impressed with his art, but disturbed by the man himself--and then people in her small town start dying.
Book cover for "A dog's breakfast"
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Glen never has anything nice to say to anyone, so when he gets lost in the woods during a school field trip and encounters a strange creature, there is bound to be trouble.
Book cover for "Peppermints in the parlor"
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Sent to San Francisco to live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly-orphaned, eleven-year-old Emily expectantly enters their once-happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors.
Book cover for "Zombie kid"
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Case file 13 volume 1.
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For readers who like thrills with their laughs, Case File 13 is a satisfying new series that blends irreverent humor, page-turning adventure, a mysterious narrator, and the kind of authentic characters that will leave young readers convinced this story is about their own best friends. Case File 13: Zombie Kid follows three monster-obsessed friends who must solve fiendishly funny mysteries in their creepy hometown. Nick, Carter, and Angelo are obsessed...
Book cover for "The jumbies"
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Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Book cover for "Rise of the balloon goons"
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Alexander has just moved into Stermont, but the elementary school is being torn down, his new classroom is located in the hospital morgue, a notebook he finds is full of information about monsters--and everywhere he turns there are spooky balloon men determined to attack him.
Book cover for "The dark-thirty"
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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.
Book cover for "El grito de la máscara maldita"
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Carly Beth tries to resist calls from an evil mask she defeated a year ago during Halloween while working at an after-school program at the Tumbledown Farms, where a stable of horses and a farm hand died tragically a century ago.
Book cover for "El libro del cementerio"
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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...
Book cover for "The most frightening story ever told"
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"Scary-story enthusiast Billy Shivers helps out when the Haunted House of Books threatens to go out of business"--
Book cover for "The screaming staircase"
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Lockwood & Co volume 1.
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Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.
Book cover for "Dare to be scared"
Book cover for "Half-minute horrors"
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An anthology of very short, scary stories by an assortment of authors and illustrators including Chris Raschka, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, and Lane Smith.
Book cover for "Short & shivery"
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A collection of thirty short and spooky tales from the folklore of Russia, Virginia, Ireland, Canada, and other areas of the world.
Book cover for "Guys read"
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Guys read volume 6.
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Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading.

Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garcia—have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories with illustrations by Gris Grimly,

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