Spooky Stories for Kids

Updated June 16, 2026
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Spooky Stories for Kids

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Arden, Katherine
Paper Book
'Don't panic. That's the first rule of survival. Never panic.' Simple enough - until your school trip turns into a waking nightmare. After rescuing a book from the river, eleven-year-old Ollie discovers an unsettling ghost story about the sinister Smiling Man, a...
Exit nowhere
Brandt, Juliana
Paper Book
In this tense and twisty middle grade novel that's "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library but make it horror" (School Library Journal), four kids must beat a series of games to make it out of a haunted house. The creepiest place in Barret Eloise's small town is the...
The worlds we leave behind
Harrold, A. F.
Paper Book
An extraordinary story about friendship and betrayal. Of revenge and retribution but also redemption. Perfect for 11+ readers who enjoy Stranger Things. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration in 2023. Hex never meant for the girl to follow him and his...
The skull : a Tyrolean folktale
Klassen, Jon
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller! A Kirkus Book Prize Finalist! A New York Times Best Children's Chapter Book the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of the Year Caldecott Medalist and New York Times best-selling author...
Ghostlight
Oppel, Kenneth
Paper Book
Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day ... Gabe tells this story...
The creepening of Dogwood House
Royce, Eden
Paper Book
The Walter Award Honor-winning author of Root Magic returns with a terrifying story in the Southern Gothic tradition, inspired by the hoodoo practice of hair burning. At night, Roddie still dreams of sitting at his mother's feet while she braids his Afro down. But that's a memory from...
Storm
Skinner, Nicola
Paper Book
The extraordinarily moving, funny and original new novel from the author of the rapturously acclaimed BLOOM. "You were born raging, Frances Frida Ripley. That's what happens when you're born in a storm." Frances's parents were not prepared for her birth: they...
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