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Scary Stories for Youth - Very, Very Scary Chapter Books

9/20/2021

Shutter, Courtney Alameda, print
Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal, print | ebook | eaudio
The Darkdeep, Ally Condie & Brendan Reichs, print
Winterwood, Shea Ernshaw, print | ebook
Hex Hall, Rachel Hawkins, print | ebook | eaudio
The Name of the Star, Maureen Johnson, print | ebook
Horrid, Katrina Leno, print | ebook | eaudio
Rot & Ruin, Jonathan Maberry, print
Campfire, Shawn Sarles, print
The Screaming Staircase, Jonathan Stroud, print | ebook | eaudio

Scary Stories for Youth - Scary Short Story Collections

9/20/2021

Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe, Josh Allen, print
Ghosts, Ghouls and Other Nightmares, Gene Kemp, print
One-Minute Scary Stories, Shari Lewis, print
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, Patricia C. McKissack, print
Hush-a-Bye, Jody Lee Mott, print
Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World, Arielle North Olson, print | ebook
Hide and Don’t Seek: and Other Very Scary Stories, Anica Mrose Rissi, print
Beware!, R.L. Stine, print
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Alvin Schwartz, print | ebook
Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales, Nancy Van Laan, print
Scary Stories for Sleep-overs, R.C. Welch, print

Scary Stories for Youth - Middle-of-the-Road Scary

9/20/2021

Small Spaces, Katherine Arden, print | ebook | eaudio
The Night Gardener, Jonathan Auxier print | ebook | eaudio
That One Spooky Night, Dan Bar-el, print
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs, print | ebook
Doll Bones, Holly Black, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury, print | eaudio
The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding, Alexandra Bracken, print
The Weirn Books: Be Wary of the Silent Woods, Svetlana Chmakova, print
The Boggart, Susan Cooper, print | eaudio
The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs, Cynthia DeFelice, print
Watch Hollow, Gregory Funaro, print | eaudio
Ghost Knight, Cornelia Funke, print | audio | eaudio
Coraline, Neil Gaiman, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
Coraline: the Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell, print
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, print | audio | ebook | eaudio | eaudio
The Graveyard Book: the Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell, vol 1 print | vol 2 print
The Crossroads, Chris Grabenstein, print | ebook | eaudio
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall, Mary Downing Hahn, print | ebook
The Girl in the Locked Room, Mary Downing Hahn, print | ebook | eaudio
Apocalypse Taco, Nathan Hale, print | ebook
Hide and Seeker, Daka Hermon, print
Can You Survive an Alien Invasion?, B.A. Hoena, print
The Last Halloween, Abby Howard, print
The List of Unspeakable Fears, J. Kasper Kramer, coming soon
Whispering Pines, Heidi Lang, print
The Stitchers (Fright Watch series), Lorien Lawrence, print
Billy Bones, Christopher Lincoln, print
Thirteens, Kate Alice Marshall, print
Spirit Hunters, Ellen Oh, print | ebook
The Nest, Kenneth Oppel, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
City of Ghosts, Victoria Schwab, print | ebook | eaudio
Can You Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?, Anthony Wacholtz, print
Nightbooks, J.A. White, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
The Ghosts of Mercy Manor, Betty Ren Wright, print
The Monstrumologist, Rick Yancey, print

Scary Stories for Youth - Fun & Scary

9/20/2021

A Very Scary Ghost Story, Joanne Barkan, print
Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories, Max Brallier, print | ebook
Shadow in the Woods and Other Scary Stories, Max Brallier, print | ebook
A Small Zombie Problem, K.G. Campbell, print
Witches of Brooklyn, Sophie Escabasse, print | ebook
Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Christian McKay Heidicker, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Christian McKay Heidicker, print
Bunnicula (series), Deborah & James Howe, print | audiobook | ebook | eaudio
Beetle & the Hollowbones, Aliza Layne, print | ebook
The Spooky Box, Mark Gonyea, print
Edgar & Ellen (series), Charles Ogden, print
Creepy Carrots!, Aaron Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio
Creepy Pair of Underwear!, Aaron Reynolds, print | ebook
The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, Aaron Reynolds, print
The Dark, Lemony Snicket, print
Scaredy Squirrel (series), Melanie Watt, print | ebook
Dust & Grim, Chuck Wendig, coming in October
Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Mo Willems, print

Scary Stories for Youth - Not So Scary

9/20/2021

I’m Not Scared!, Jonathan Allen, print
Ghost Cat, Kevan Atteberry, print
Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour, Eve Bunting, print
Boo Who?, Ben Clanton, print
Little Ghoul Goes to School, Jeff Czekaj, print
The Pomegranate Witch, Denise Doyen, print
Gustavo, the Shy Ghost, Flavia Z. Drago, print
There's No Such Thing As Ghosts, Emmanuelle Eeckhout, print
Go Away, Big Green Monster!, Ed Emberley, print
Zee is Not Scared, Michel Gay, print
Scaredy Kate, Jacob Grant, print
The Scary Places Map Book, B.G. Hennessy, print
Duck and Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo!, Tad Hills, print
The Fun Book of Scary Stuff, Emily Jenkins, print
Ghosts in the House, Kazuno Kohara, print
Let’s Scare Bear, Yuko Katakawa, print
The Hungry Ghosts, Julius Lester, print
The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches, Alice Lowe, print
Night Animals, Gianna Marino, print | ebook
The Too-Scary Story, Bethanie Deeney Murguia, print
Tell Me a Scary Story -- But Not Too Scary!, Carl Reiner, print
I Want to Be in a Scary Story, Sean Taylor, print
We're Going on a Ghost Hunt, Marcia K. Vaughan, print
Stormy Night, Salina Yoon, print

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Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

(LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken.)

For lists before 2021:
Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.

Scary Stories for Youth - Very, Very Scary Chapter Books

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