 | Clockwork : Or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 A lesser-known, short book by Philip Pullman--something of a fairy tale, and just as dark.
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 | Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares: Tales to Make You Scream (Bruce Coville's Series) by Bruce Coville
Buy used from: $0.01 The binding is bad, the contents are good. This book has most of my favorites from this series--There's Nothing Under the Bed, Drawing the Moon, The Fat Man are best, but the whole book's top-notch.
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 | Jade Green : A Ghost Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 An excellent little book and well worth reading.
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 | The House With a Clock In Its Walls (Lewis Barnavelt) by John Bellairs
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 The best of this series of books.
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $3.22 Another sort of fairy tale, creepy and controlled. Buttons are scarier than they look.
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 | The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 You always knew dolls were scary.
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 | Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story (Avon Camelot Books) by Mary Downing Hahn
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Half about ghosts and half about people...a very good book.
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 | The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Coven Tree is always half a tall tale and half a scary one. Great stuff.
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 | Devil's donkey by Bill Brittain
Buy used from: $1.56 Not the best, but still worth reading--more Coven Tree.
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 | Dr. Dredd's wagon of wonders by Bill Brittain
Buy used from: $0.99 Probably the scariest of the Coven Tree books.
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 | Count Karlstein by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another lost horror by Philip Pullman, and worth it--though not as good as Clockwork.
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 | Bunnicula-in-a-Box: Bunnicula; Howliday Inn; The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe
Buy used from: $19.99 For the younger set--but enjoyable for all. The picture books? Not worth your time.
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 | The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics) by George Macdonald
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 An absolute classic. Read it. Fear the goblins, love the princess.
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 | Witch's Sister by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 Three scary books often recommended by my librarian mum.
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 | Witch Water by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 Sequel to Witch's Sister
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 | The Witch Herself by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 Sequel to Witch Water
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| Screaming Skulls: 101 Of the World's Greatest Ghost Stories (Avon Camelot Book) by Daniel Cohen
Buy used from: $1.30 Daniel Cohen's ghost story collections are always worth a read.
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 | Scary Stories Boxed Set by Alvin Schwartz
Buy new: $12.22 / Used from: $8.00 For your older readers, with truly creepy illustrations. Well-told and spine-tingley.
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 | In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 Alvin Schwartz for younger readers. Definitely worth looking at with new readers.
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 | Who Took My Hairy Toe? by Shutta Crum
Buy used from: $8.15 An enjoyable adaptation of a traditional story.
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 | 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 For your older readers; again, classics are often classics for a reason. Here are many of his best.
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