Ghost & Horror

Top ghost and horror picks for junior readers

Updated December 4, 2023
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The bewitching of Aveline Jones
Hickes, Phil; Robinson, Keith
Paper Book
The second in a deliciously spine-tingling, spooky series. Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones!Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the holiday cottage her mum has rented for the summer is beside a stone circle. Thousands of years old, the local villagers refer to the...
Dread Wood
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
The must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps. "Deliciously scary and hilarious comedy-horror, perfectly pitched for eight-plus." The Guardian "Brilliantly...
Fear ground
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps. There's a new craze at Dread Wood High. Flinch is a game of fear. The more you scare your friends, the more points on the app you get. At first it's fun, but soon...
Flock horror
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps. Angelo and his friends know that together they can handle any pretty much anything - including giant mutant spiders or snake-like parasites that burrow...
Ghost book
Lai, Remy
Paper Book
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, this thrilling contemporary fantasy graphic novel about a girl who befriends a boy ghost stuck between the worlds of the living and the dead is from the bestselling creator of Pawcasso. 'I adored it!' Jessica Townsend, New York Times...
Ghostcloud
Mann, Michael
Paper Book
'A superbly inventive and magical debut' Piers Torday 'Beautifully written and filled with unforgettable characters ... a diamond of a book' Ross MacKenzie 'Utterly original, thrilling, strange and cracking good fun ......
The haunting of Aveline Jones
Hickes, Phil
Paper Book
Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones!Aveline loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it belonged to a girl called Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to be...
Nightspark
Mann, Michael
Paper Book
Having escaped from the half-bombed, blackened power station where he was being imprisoned, 12-year-old Luke is finally reunited with his family above ground. But though Luke tries to readjust, he can't shake the guilt he feels for his friend Ravi, who was left behind, nor the feeling that...
The stitchers
Lawrence, Lorien
Ebook
A teenager picks up where her late father left off investigating her peculiar elderly neighbors in this spooky series opener.Something strange is happening on Goodie Lane . . . Thirteen-year-old Quinn Parker knows that there's something off about her neighbors....
The Vanishing of Aveline Jones
Hickes, Phil.
Paper Book
The third thrilling, chilling mystery in this frightfully spooky series. Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones!Aveline is determined to discover the truth behind her uncle's mysterious disappearance when she travels to his home with Mum and Aunt Lilian. After years of hoping...

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