Scary Books

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

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Book cover for "The Inn Between"
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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.
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 "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 "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 school is alive!"
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Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students, and,as hall monitor, it is his job to protect them--but he will need some help from his friends.
Book cover for "The door by the staircase"
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Happy to be adopted at last, twelve-year-old orphan Mary Hayes soon learns a terrifying secret about her new mother, the mysterious Madame Z.--
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 "A guide to the other side"
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Beyond Baylor volume 1.
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Thirteen-year-old Baylor Bosco does not like ghosts, but as a medium he sees them--including his twin sister Kristina--everywhere but Kristina disappears after a strange ghost shows up and Baylor must try to find her on his own.
Book cover for "How I became a ghost"
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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.
Book cover for "The girl with the ghost machine"
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Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building the ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work, or destroy it forever.
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 Peculiar Haunting of Thelma Bee"
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Ghost-story lover and debut author Erin Petti has written a quirky story for fans of The Goonies, Goosebumps, and Coraline. Eleven-year-old budding scientist Thelma Bee has adventure in her blood. But she gets more than she bargained for when a ghost kidnaps her father. Now her only clues are a strange jewelry box and the word "Return," whispered to her by the ghost. It's up to Thelma to get her dad back, and it might be more dangerous than she thought...
Book cover for "Nightmares!"
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Nightmares! volume 1.
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"Twelve-year-old Charlie and his friends must stop nightmares from taking over their town before it's too late"--Provided by publisher.