Horror - Kids Fiction

Someone has broken into the Library of Doom While searching for the intruder, the Librarian is captured by a shadowy figure the Eraser. He has chained the Librarian to a huge golden book. If the Librarian can't escape, all the world's books could be...

There is a right way and a wrong way to summon her. Jess had done the research. Success requires precision: a dark room, a mirror, a candle, salt, and four teenage girls. Each of them-Jess, Shauna, Kitty, and Anna-must link hands, follow the rules...

When young Eddie is falsely accused of destroying the Judge's chicken coop, his adopted parents give him two days to find the true culprit. Guided by logic, but entranced by the poetry of the paranormal, Eddie seeks to solve the mystery, along the way...

The monstrous Medusa shows off her oh-so stinky snake-hair in this epically gross Greek myth retelling Will Medusa tame her wretched mane, or is her do's wretched stench set in stone? With wacky illustrations, true-to-tale back matter, and introductions by Michael Dahl himself, THE...

After school, a boy boards an odd-looking bus. Inside, the floor, the seats, and even the ceiling are covered with chewed-up wads of gum. Soon, the sticky wads grow thicker, climb higher, come alive ... and the bus windows will not open Can the...

Coulrophobia--the fear of clowns. It might seem funny, but for Josh this fear is no joke. Josh has a pulse-pounding, sweat-inducing feeling about the clown that advertises the local pizza place. Or anyone who dresses up as a clown for Halloween. When a class...

Siblings Kareem and Amina are dreading a night with their neighbor and babysitter Old Mrs. Heeley. The only good thing is, she always brings cupcakes. But when they go to get a tasty treat, Kareem and Amina find that the cupcakes seem to be...

Having grown up watching her dad tend their lawn, Lisa has always wondered: Where does the poison in weed killer go after the weeds die? When Lisa has a dream one night about a monster that lives below their yard, she doesn't think anything...

In the summer of 1967, Cyrus Nygerski, nineteen and "the best left-handed second baseman in Wisconsin," unsuspectingly meets his first werewolf. Six hours later, she is sitting next to him in Comiskey Park, watching the Red Sox play the White Sox on August 27th,...

Don't miss the frights and fun as Cora faces her fears in a spooky sculpture garden in this mind-bending Creepover tale. Cora Nicolaides is panicking: It's just three weeks until the school dance, and she's the only one of her friends without a date!...

An overnight campout sets the stage for a monstrous scare in this You're Invited to a Creepover tale. Jenna Walker has always been fascinated by the legend of the Marked Monster, the scarred half-bird, half-beast creature that is said to roam the forests around...

Determined to rescue his baby sister from the Fairies, John Nesbit travels into the world of the Strangers and discovers an unusual world of human-headed flying dogs and a hollow man. When John Nesbit discovers that his little sister has been stolen by a...

Zombie... That's what every kid in school calls Mikey since he died. But his problems are much worse than that. After he helped the ghost of Travis Cleveland Riley, an angry spirit who followed him back from the dead, Mikey thought he was all...

Even the lightest hearts have shaded corners to hide the black thoughts that come at night. Experience the darker side of YA as 13 authors explore the places that others prefer to leave among the shadows. You've been there. It's dark and you're comfortable....

Twelve-year-old Devin Dexter has a problem. Well, actually, many of them. His cousin, Tommy, sees conspiracies behind every corner. And Tommy thinks Devin's new neighbor, Herb, is a warlock . . . but nobody believes him. Even Devin's skeptical. But soon strange things start...

Acclaimed author Jason Henderson weaves four haunting tales from the ghostly legends of deep south Texas. Do you dare to read?Author: Jason HendersonISBN-10: 1540565343ISBN-13: 9781540565341Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/2016Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.16d

Take a both fun-filled and treacherous ride into the waters surrounding the peninsular city of Charleston, South Carolina with G.L. Giles's water vampires. Slake your thirst for different vampire species and subspecies at the same time On dry land, you'll also experience a part...

Do Tara and Flynn stand a ghost of a chance? The bad guys are after a hidden fortune that belongs to Flynn O'Mara's dying father-they think Tara can use her psychic powers to find it for them. She'll need plenty of help from her...

Malcolm and Dandy may only be 10-year-old boys, but they've already experienced something most adults never do--a ghost Malcolm's Ecto-Handheld-Automatic-Heat-Sensitive-Laser-Enhanced Specter Detector did its job at the McBleaky house. Malcolm is hoping his next gadget, the Ecto-Handheld-Automatic-Heat-Sensitive-Laser-Enchanced Ghost Zapper, will work on the ghost...

Definitely Not Kansas is the first volume of the Nocturnia Cycle, a series for both adults and young readers, middle grades and up. Two remarkable, adventuresome kids-Emma and Ryan-discover a parallel world that is the source of all our most well-known monsters. Werewolves, vampires,...

The Shadows that Rush Past introduces young readers to some of the creepiest, scariest stories from Inuit mythology. These tales, told by critically acclaimed writer Rachel Qitsualik, bring to life four creatures from Inuit mythology: the amautalik, akhla, nanurluk, and mahaha. These tales are...

All the children love to go to their Uncle Bob's house every Friday night to hear him tell ghost stories around his fire pit. One night when Uncle Bob decides to host a marshmallow pig roast, the kids are excited, even though they have...

The former home of the Ghost Twins, Robbie and Beka, and Thatch, the Ghost Dog, is now a rental at the Kickingbird Lake Resort. First visitors: the Shook Family. And a cat? Poor Thatch! The Shook kids find a treasure at the lake. It...

The Corpses are up to something. U.S. Senator Lindsay Micha has been kidnapped and replaced with a "dead" ringer--the sister to Lilith Cavanaugh, the Queen of the Dead. Now, Will Ritter must go undercover in our nation's capitol to ferret out the truth and...

Can sworn enemies ever become friends? Eleven-year-old Max can't decide what's more annoying--the fact that his pack of werewolves can't locate the last two evil banshees or being treated like a helpless little kid all the time instead of the fierce fighting werewolf he...

Haunted by a strange, ghostly experience from her youth and lonely in her isolated castle, Laura longs for a companion. Suddenly, her wishes are answered. Through a curious series of events, a beautiful young stranger named Carmilla becomes a ward at Laura's family home....

Pick a book. Grow a Reader This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books...

A Temporary DeathZombies on The Block Book IIIThe neighborhood isn't getting any safer. Everyone is going through their own personal hell and those that can fight together are doing so. Some of the neighbors have already fallen to those that walk with death in...

There Goes the Neighborhood Zombies on The Block Book IIThe zombie outbreak is affecting more than just the Evans Family. Book II dives into not just what is happening to Mike and his family but begins to fall further into the zombies on the...

Jason is so thrilled with the set of 12 mythological Greek god figures he receives for his birthday that he carries one with him to a local toy shop. Soon he discovers that a 13th doll--the Medusa Doll--was also made for his set. Surely...

Things are not quite right in Neary Heights. People are going missing, garden gnomes seem to be multiplying, and Stan could swear he hears the pitter-patter of tiny feet behind him when he walks through the neighborhood. As Stan begins to wonder if these...

A vampire in an asylum? Like that is going to end well... Something demonic is infecting humans-and spreading to vampires when they feed. When Mercy contracts the infection her brother, whose consciousness is now bound to hers, takes over and goes on a rampage...

She's a vampire. She's a witch. And she's heartless... literally.Mercy died twice. Once when she became a vampire. Again, when her own father had her heart cut out of her chest. But Mercy's guide in the Craft had other ideas. The essence of her...

Kangaroo... a cute, cuddly animal, from the land down under, right? Except when it's not. Except when it's really a six-foot tall demon-monster from the land of the dead. Then it's not so cute and cuddly. And that's just one of Mikey's problems. Trying...

Serial Killers.Vengeful Ghosts.Soul Eaters.Fallen Angels.Rougarous.Primordial Evils.These are just some of the big bads Emma Rose Crane has survived. She always comes out the other side a little more broken, but she hides it from the world. No one knows how vulnerable she really is....

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she...

What do you do when monsters are coming?You get bigger, badder, better monsters to fight them.When people start going missing around the country's biggest cemetery, the werewolves learn that the banshees are preparing a war on humanity during the next full moon. It will...

A twisty, terrifying supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old, her creepy new home in Florida, and the territorial ghost of the young girl who lived there before her. "A fiendishly creepy ghost story."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Dust & Grim "Hide-under-the-covers terrifying, I...

MONSTER BOYA SUPER TRIP The fifth grade class trip to the Museum of Strange Sciences and Inventions sounded super to Danny Keegan and his monster pals. But when class bully Stevie Brickwald starts touching the museum displays, things get very weird Danny is zapped...

TROLL PATROLA MONSTROUS SUMMER CAMP The kids from P.S. 13 are enjoying their summer vacation at Camp Horrorific, but things keep disappearing from their bunks Only Danny Keegan and his monster pals know what's behind the creepy goings-on-trolls from the woods surrounding the camp...

THE SECRET OF DINOSAUR BOGDINOSAURS AHEAD The Keegan family attic is full of forgotten treasures-including a weird statue of a dinosaur. When the dinosaur's eye falls out, everyone's luck changes for the worse. Now Dinosaur Bog is draining, ghost dinosaurs are running through Danny...

HOW TO BE A VAMPIRE IN ONE EASY LESSONWHAT'S WORSE THAN STEVIE BRICKWALD, THE BULLY STEVIE BRICKWALD, THE VAMPIRE When class creep Stevie starts acting friendly toward the monster kids, Danny smells a rat. Stevie says he wants C.D. Bitesky to teach him how...

THE MONSTER IN CREEPS HEAD BAYIS THERE REALLY A SEA SERPENT IN CREEPS HEAD BAY?Lots of people think they've seen one, and Captain Long John Silverman is offering a reward to anyone who can prove it exists. Danny isn't sure he believes in the...

SAVE THE MONSTERS Danny Keegan and his monster pals C.D. Bitesky, Howie Wolfner, and Elisa and Frankie Stein are thrilled when their old friend Zelda Bella-who they think may be a witch-turns up as the star of the new TV show Mother Scary's Matinee.But...

ZOMBIE TO GOWhen Danny Keegan and his monster friends at P.S. 13 hear about a new pizza parlor, they can't wait to sample the food.Yet when they get to the restaurant, they discover that their pizza is served by dancing zombies-and that one of...

THINGS THAT GO BARK IN THE PARKWHO ARE THE HOUNDS OF HECK AND WHY ARE THEY CHASING STEVE BRICKWALD?The good news is that Wonder Hill amusement park is finally going to open. Everyone in Ms. Cosgrove's fifth grade class is excited when millionaire Roland...

A delightfully creepy novel from a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner imbued with magic and seafaring mythology. Lemony Snicket and Jessica Townsend meet Greenglass House, with a hint of Edward Gorey thrown in.When twelve-year-old Rory applies for a job at a...

The sign over the covered antique mirror said DO NOT TOUCH. Twelve-year-old Nora wished she had listened.Mirrors reflect what is in front of them, but what happens behind the glass-to the reflections themselves? Nora finds out when her own reflection, aka Fake Nora, changes...

This classic horror story is presented as an exciting, fast-paced graphic novel that remains faithful to Mary Shelley's original text. Victor Frankenstein, a gifted medical student, has discovered the secret of bringing dead matter to life. Gathering materials from graveyards and slaughterhouses, he creates...

What's not love when a quartet of cousins visit their wacky uncle's private island, complete with horror-themed amusement park, on Halloween?The attraction is closed to the public for the night, too, so they have it all to themselves! No crowds! No lines! No waiting!...