Scary Books

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

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Book cover for "Camp Sylvania"
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Camp Sylvania volume 1.
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"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight...if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp--and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...
Book cover for "The supernatural society"
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Will Hunter thought his life couldnā€™t get any worse: His parents just got divorced; His best (and only) friend now is his dog; Fitz, And his mom moved them from New York City to the middle-of-nowhere town called East Emerson. But Will was wrongā€”things are about to get way worse. Because East Emerson is filled with a whole lot of monsters, and heā€™s the only person who can see them. When all the town pets (including Fitz) go missing, Will suspects...
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 "Ghost squad"
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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...
Book cover for "Ghost girl"
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"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...
Book cover for "Amira & Hamza"
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On the day of a rare super blue blood moon eclipse, twelve-year-old Amira and her little brother, Hamza, canā€™t stop their bickering while attending a special exhibit on medieval Islamic astronomy. While stargazer Amira is wowed by the amazing gadgets, a bored Hamza wanders off, stumbling across the mesmerizing and forbidden Box of the Moon. Amira can only watch in horror as Hamza grabs the defunct box and it springs to life, setting off a series...
Book cover for "The Darkdeep"
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Darkdeep volume 1.
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Middle-schoolers Nico, Tyler, Ella, and Opal discover a hidden island in a forbidden cove that appears uninhabited, but something ancient has awakened knowing their wishes, dreams, and darkest secrets.
Book cover for "Small spaces"
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"After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces"--
Book cover for "The shadow hand"
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When babysitter Rebecca discovers that a sinister ruler of darkness has replaced the baby with a changeling, she and her friends must save him by surviving a chilling journey through the Nightmare Realm.
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 "The paradise trap"
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Eleven-year-old Marcus is spending a week at the beach with his mother in a tiny old travel trailer, but boredom turns to terror when a new friend discovers a cellar that has magical doors through which people keep disappearing.
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 trĆ”gica historia: una familia que duerme, un asesino sin compasiĆ³n y una criatura aventurera, un huĆ©rfano que escapa de la muerte. ĀæO no? El pequeƱo escapa del peligro y consigue gatear hasta lo mĆ”s alto de la colina. DetrĆ”s de la valla que se encuentra, existe un lugar oscuro y tranquilo, un cementerio lleno de una vida...
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 "The mesmerist"
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"Thirteen-year-old Jess and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists--until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead. Soon she is plunged into the dark world of Victorian London's supernatural underbelly and learns that the city is under attack by ghouls, monsters, and spirit summoners"--
Book cover for "Serafina and the black cloak"
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"Never go into the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul." Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate. There's plenty to explore in her grand home, but she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa, the estate's maintenance man, have lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember....
Book cover for "The house with a clock in its walls"
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"When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan, comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians. Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Serenna Izard"--Back cover.
Book cover for "Coraline"
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Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own. But they want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wits if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents,...