Scary Books

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

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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,...
Book cover for "Doll bones"
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Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
Book cover for "Ask the bones"
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A collection of scary folktales from countries around the world including China, Russia, Spain, and the United States.
Book cover for "The Donkey Lady fights La Llorona"
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A second collection of eerie tales from Latin American lore depicts the encounters of traditional and contemporary people with a variety of creepy creatures.
Book cover for "Scary stories to tell in the dark"
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Drawn from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.
Book cover for "Beware!"
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A selection of unsettling stories by such authors as Ray Bradbury, William Sleator, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Jane Yolen, and Mr. Stine himself.