Find a scary title for readers of all ages

Hello, friends! Kerisa from EVPL Central’s READ Center here. Does your young child ask for scary stories? Is your older reader ready to move into more difficult books? Or is your child just looking for something new to try? Then hopefully this list will help you find something to satisfy their need to shiver in fright.

I have separated the books into age ranges by the age that it started with. The age ranges came from the Product Details found on Amazon. Each title has been linked to the EVPL catalog. Some titles will have more than one entry because they are available in several formats. Some are only available only as a physical book or as an ebook, while others are available as both of those in addition to audiobooks or even eComics. Some of the series have the same title as the first book, so when you go to the link, it will bring up the whole series under that title.

Ages 2+

• I Want to Be In a Scary Story

Ages 3+

• Ghosts In the House!
• Quit Calling Me a Monster!
• Skeleton Hiccups
• Room on the Broom

Ages 4+

• Go Away, Big Green Monster!
• The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
• Monster Trouble!
• Lenny & Lucy
• Where the Wild Things Are
• In a Dark, Dark Room
• The Darkest Dark
• Heckedy Peg
• Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
• There’s a Nightmare in My Closet
• There’s Something in My Attic
• Bedtime for Frances
• The Dark
• Lulu Goes to Witch School
• The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches
• Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep

Ages 5+

• What Was I Scared Of?

Ages 6+

• What’s Under My Bed?
• The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
• The Scariest Book Ever
• Eerie Elementary (series)

• • Book 1 – The School is Alive

Ages 7+

• Goth Girl

• • Book 1 – Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
• Scarecrow’s Nightmare Maze
• The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
  • Book 1 – The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
  • Book 2 – The Awakening of Sunshine Girl
  • Book 3 – The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl

Ages 8+

• Nightlights (Graphic Novel)
• Hansel and Gretel
• Bunnicula

• • Book 1 – Bunnicula: a Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
  • Book 2 – Howliday Inn
  • Book 3 – The Celery Stalks at Midnight
  • Book 4 – Nighty-Nightmare
  • Book 5 – Return to Howliday Inn
  • Book 6 – Bunnicula Strikes Again
  • Book 7 – Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow
• Charlie and the Grandmothers
• A Properly Unhaunted Place
• Skeleton Man
• Spirit Hunters
  • Book 1 – Spirit Hunters
  • Book 2 – The Island of Monsters 
• Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: 20 Chilling Tales from the Wilderness
• Zombie Baseball Beatdown
• All the Lovely Bad Ones
• The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister
• Juniper Berry
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  • Book 1 – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  • Book 2 – More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  • Book 3 – Scary Stories 3
• Nightmares!
  • Book 1 – Nightmares!
  • Book 2 – The Sleepwalker Tonic
  • Book 3 – The Lost Lullaby
  • Book 4 – Everything You Need to Know About Nightmares! And How to Defeat Them
• The Night Gardener
• Ghost Knight
• Coraline
• Coraline (Graphic Novel)
• Splendors and Glooms
• The Whispering House
• Haunted Histories
• Olive and the Backstage Ghost
• The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street
• Ghosts (Graphic Novel)
• The Okay Witch (Graphic Novel)
• Amulet (Graphic Novel)
  • Book 1 – The Stonekeeper
  • Book 2 – The Stonekeeper’s Curse
  • Book 3 – The Cloud Searchers
  • Book 4 – The Last Council
  • Book 5 – Prince of the Elves
  • Book 6 – Escape From Lucien
  • Book 7 – Firelight
  • Book 8 – Supernova
• Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things (Graphic Novel)
• The Graveyard Book (Graphic Novel)
• The Witches
• The Twits

Ages 9+

• City of Ghosts

• • Book 1 – City of Ghosts
  • Book 2 – Tunnel of Bones
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
• The House with a Clock in the Walls
• The Jumbies
  • Book 1 – The Jumbies
  • Book 2 – Rise of the Jumbies
  • Book 3 – The Jumbie God’s Revenge
• Scary Stories for Young Foxes
• Wait Till Helen Comes
• Serafina
  • Book 1 – Serafina and the Black Cloak
  • Book 2 – Serafina and the Twisted Staff
  • Book 3 – Serafina and the Splintered Heart
  • Book 4 – Serafina and the Seven Stars
• Lockwood and Co.
  • Book 1 – The Screaming Staircase
  • Book 2 – The Whispering Skull
  • Book 3 – The Hollow Boy
  • Book 4 – The Creeping Shadow
  • Book 5 – The Empty Grave
• Shadow School
  • Book 1 – Archimancy
• Case File 13
  • Book 1 – Zombie Kid
  • Book 2 – Making the Team
  • Book 3 – Evil Twins
  • Book 4 – Curse of the Mummy’s Uncle
• Tales from Lovecraft Middle School
  • Book 1 – Professor Gargoyle
  • Book 2 – The Slither Sisters
  • Book 3 – Teacher’s Pest
• Sheets (Graphic Novel)

Ages 10+

• The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
• Doll bones
• Hoodoo
• The House in Poplar Wood
• The Nest
• Small Spaces
• Warren the 13th

• • Book 1 – Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye
  • Book 2 – Warren the 13th and the Whispering Woods
  • Book 3 – Warren the 13th and the Thirteen-Year Curse
• The Graveyard Book
• The Bone Garden
• Deep and Dark and Dangerous
• Dreamwood
• Riverman Trilogy
  • Book 1 – The Riverman
  • Book 2 – The Whisper
  • Book 3 – The Storyteller
• The Overthrow
  • Book 1 – Bloom
  • Book 2 – Hatch (to be released on Dec. 1, 2020)
• Constable & Toop

Ages 11+

• The House of Dies Drear

Ages 12+

• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Whichwood
• In the Shadow of Blackbirds
• Marina
• Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
• This Dark Endeavor
• Gotham Academy (Graphic Novel)

Ages 13+

• Creepy Creatures and Other Cucuys
• The Last Apprentice

• • Book 1 – Revenge of the Witch
  • Book 2 – Curse of the Bane
  • Book 3 – Night of the Soul-Stealer
  • Book 4 – Attack of the Fiend
  • Book 5 – Wrath of the Bloodeye
  • Book 6 – Clash of the Demons
  • Book 7 – Rise of the Huntress
  • Book 8 – Rage of the Fallen
  • Book 9 – Grimalkin, the Witch Assassin
  • Book 10 – Lure of the Dead
  • Book 11 – Slither
  • Book 12 – I Am Alice
  • Book 13 – Fury of the Seventh Son
• Benny Imura
  • Book 1 – Rot & Ruin
  • Book 2 – Dust & Decay
  • Book 3 – Flesh & Bone
  • Book 4 – Fire & Ash
  • Book 5 – Bits & Pieces
• Jane, Unlimited
• Last Things
• Man Made Boy
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
  • Book 1 – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
  • Book 2 – Hollow City
  • Book 3 – Library of Souls
  • Book 4 – A Map of Days
  • Book 5 – The Conference of the Birds
  • Tales of the Peculiar

Ages 14+

• Jackaby Series

• • Book 1 – Jackaby
  • Book 2 – Beastly Bones
  • Book 3 – Ghostly Echoes
  • Book 4 – The Dire King
• Between
  • Book 1 – Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
  • Book 2 – Between the Spark and the Burn
• Carrie
• Dead House
• Evil Librarian
  • Book 1 – The Evil Librarian
  • Book 2 – Revenge of the Evil Librarian
• Frankenstein
• Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein
• House of Furies
  • Book 1 – House of Furies
  • Book 2 – Court of Shadows
  • Book 3 – Tomb of Ancients
• The Madman’s Daughter Trilogy
  • Book 1 – The Madman’s Daughter
  • Book 2 – Her Dark Curiosity
  • Book 3 – A Cold Legacy
• The Monstrumologist
• The Raven’s Tale
• Shutter
• There’s Someone Inside Your House
• What the Dead Want
• Wilder Girls
• Through the Woods (Graphic Novel)

Ages 15+

• Anna Korlov

• • Book 1 – Anna Dressed in Blood
  • Book 2 – Girl of Nightmares
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Ages 17+

• The Passage Trilogy

• • Book 1 – The Passage
  • Book 2 – The Twelve
  • Book 3 – The City of Mirrors

Kerisa R

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