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Things that go bump in the night
Carman, Patrick.
Paper Book
Read, watch, and listen to each chilling story in 15 minutes or less! 3:15 means several things. It's a time when things go bump in the night. A place where spooky stories find a home. A feeling . . . that chill running down your spine. It means 10 terrifying tales...
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All the lovely bad ones : a ghost story
Hahn, Mary Downing.
Paper Book
Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick--so when they learn that their grandmother's sleepy Vermont inn has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting" of their own. Scaring the guests proves to be great fun, and before long, the inn is filled with tourists...
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Coraline.
Gaiman, Neil
Paper Book
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Doll bones
Black, Holly.
Paper Book
Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A Booklist Editor's Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book. A...
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The dead end
McCoy, Mimi.
Paper Book
Casey Slater can't believe her bad luck. It's the summer before seventh grade and, while her friends will be hanging out at the local pool, Casey is in a remote country town where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house. Worst of all, everyone else in town thinks the old house is...
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Double-dare to be scared : another thirteen chilling tales /
San Souci, Robert D.
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The girl in the lake.
Brown, India Hill, 1991-
Paper Book
"Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but shes not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake ... no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in...
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Ghosts of the Titanic /
Lawson, Julie, 1947-
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A teenage boy finds himself caught up in a century-old mystery -- aboard the Titanic! Kevin and his family are enroute to Halifax to check out a house they have mysteriously inherited from a man named Angus Seaton -- mysterious because none of them have any clue who he was or...
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The headless Cupid
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.
Paper Book
When the four Stanley children meet Amanda, their new stepsister, they're amazed to learn that she studies witchcraft. It's not long before Amanda promises to give witchcraft lessons to David, Jamie, and the twins. But that's when unusual things start happening in their old house. David suspects...
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Hide and don't seek : and other very scary stories
Rissi, Anica Mrose
Paper Book
A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long... A look-alike doll makes itself right at...
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Revenge of the living dummy
Stine, R. L.
Paper Book
Goosebumps now on Disney+! Fright-master R.L. Stine invites you on an all-new, all-terrifying adventure! Britney Crosby thinks her cousin Ethan is pretty weird--and she happens to be right. Ethan won't stop tormenting Britney with an old ventriloquist's dummy. And the puppet has...
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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...
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Scritch scratch
Currie, Lindsay
Paper Book
"This is a teeth-chattering, eyes bulging, shuddering-and-shaking, chills-at-the-back-of-your-neck ghost story. I loved it!"--R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series For fans of Small Spaces and the Goosebumps series by R.L Stine comes a chilling ghost story based on real Chicago...
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Skeleton Creek
Carman, Patrick.
Paper Book
There are two sides to this story-one is WRITTEN, the other is on VIDEO. Something mysterious is happening in Skeleton Creek. Something scary. Something sinister. Ryan came close to it . . . and nearly died. Now he's trapped in his house. He can't trust anyone-not even himself. ...
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A tale dark and& Grimm.
Gidwitz, Adam
Paper Book
In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses,...
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