Spooky Season Children's Fiction

Updated March 7, 2026
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Rowley Jefferson's awesome friendly spooky stories
Kinney, Jeff
Paper Book
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Scare yourself silly with Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney, the #1 international bestselling author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Grab a flashlight, crawl...
Scream and scream again! : spooky stories from Mystery Writers of America
Stine, R. L.
Paper Book
A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream! R.L. Stine--the godfather of Goosebumps--and some of the most popular authors today bring an unrivaled mastery of all things fearsome, frightening, and fantabulous to this...
City of ghosts
Schwab, Victoria
Paper Book
From #1 NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab comes a sweeping, spooky, evocative adventure, perfect for fans of "Stranger Things" and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.A New York Times bestseller!Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't...
Scary stories to tell in the dark
Schwartz, Alvin
Paper Book
This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz's popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright. There is a story here for everyone -- skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her...
Goosebumps 2 : Monster Blood
Stine, R. L.
Paper Book
Goosebumps now on Disney+! While staying with his great-aunt Kathryn, Evan Ross visits an eerie old toy store. Among the dusty shelves, he finds a can of something called "Monster Blood." The odd, sticky substance really does look like the blood of a creature. It has a greenish glow and...
Say cheese-- and die screaming!
Stine, R. L.
Paper Book
Goosebumps now on Disney+!A picture is worth a thousand screams--if it's taken with an evil camera that has a nasty vision of the future. Julie's future doesn't look pretty. And neither does anyone else's after they're caught in her lens!Things start looking up when Julie gets to HorrorLand....
The silver eyes
Cawthon, Scott
Ebook
Don't miss the first-ever graphic novel for Five Nights at Freddy's, an adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Silver Eyes illustrated by fan-favorite game artist Claudia Schröder! Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that...
Coraline
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline--also an Academy Award-nominated film "Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...." When Coraline steps through a door to find another...
The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil
Paper Book
The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.  Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place--he's the only living...

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