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Horror Stories for Kids

Looking for a spooky tale? Check out our list of horror stories for kids of all ages!

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  • 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…
    Book, 2025New York : Graphix, 2025. — J STI
  • Jasper the Rabbit is back! A little older and wiser, he collects creepy stories to share as cautionary tales. If you’re ready for some chills and chuckles alike, tune in as Jasper weaves the yarn of Thadeus Badger and the sticky situation he found…
    Book, 2026New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2026. — JF REYNOLDS
  • Twin sisters. One dead, one living. But which is which? Chelsea has now traded places with her evil twin... and finds herself trapped in a ghost space while Angelica takes over. Is it possible for her to get her life back?
    Book, 2026New York, New York : Scholastic Incorporated, 2026. — JF ALEXANDE
  • Thanks to his mother’s job at a local graveyard, twelve-year-old Will Stone has some unique talents. For one, he knows exactly how a burial vault works and why they’re used. For another, he’s great at genealogy and can decode centuries old records.…
    Book, 2026New York, New York : Delacorte Press, 2026. — JF CURRIE
  • Twelve-year-old Joe Ferber, his sister Sadie, and their parents have just moved into a house that has all the hallmarks of a horror movie—tombstones in the basement, a creepy doll laying around, strange noises in the wall, and so on. As Joe tries to…
    Book, 2026Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2026. — JF STINE
  • Izzy's sister has been acting strange. Izzy knows that something is going on with her twin, Grace; hurrying off to hang with other kids, avoiding her at school, and going to bed earlier than usual. When Izzy learns that her twin sister has been…
    Book, 2025New York : Abrams Fanfare, [2025] — J BRO
  • Amy is pretty happy living the quiet life at home. She can mine ore, read up on oceanography, hang out with her pet cat. What’s not to love? Her brother, on the other hand, Marc is always leaving their village to look for excitement. But when a…
    Book, 2025New York : Random House Worlds, 2025. — JF COLON
  • Gather around the campfire with 20 spooky, spine-tingling tales that blend folklore, urban legend, and our darkest fears. The great outdoors has never been so terrifying! Featuring iconic landscapes like the Grand Canyon and Redwood National Park,…
    Book, 2025Kaysville, UT : Gibbs Smith, [2025] — JF GARCIA
  • Twelve-year-old Danny's dream week at his Uncle Bill's retro arcade becomes life threatening when a sinister video game harboring the soul of a serial killer possesses Bill.
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Delacorte Press, 2025. — JF GILLESPI
  • All creatures grim and evil, under the tired sun, are settling down--and so must you, my horrible little one... It's time to go to bed, and whether you are a werewolf, vampire, dark lord, or yeti, you still must brush your teeth, put on your…
    Picture Book, 2025New York : Viking, 2025. — AAR
  • Jasper Rabbit tells the eerie tale of Charlie Marmot, whose decision to keep his tonsils after surgery leads to creepy, mysterious events.
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2025. — JF REYNOLDS
  • Warning! This book contains a monster. A really angry, really scary, really bad monster ... or so the monster says. And Monster has a very important question: are you a monster too?
    Picture Book, 2023Beverly, MA : Happy Yak, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2023. — KAR
  • Bullied and lonely, Parker Nelson is excited to make a new friend at camp, but then bad, unexplainable things start happening to Parker's tormenters, and she soon discovers that her new friend might not be so friendly--or human--after all
    Book, 2023New York : Yearling, 2023. — JF DAWSON
  • You don't stay out after dark in Beacon Point... The small town of Beacon Point has always been plagued by eerie local phenomena. It's a town where disappearances are common, strange creatures have been sighted with unnerving frequency, and a…
    Book, 2023New York : Scholastic Press, [2023] — JF HENDERSO
  • Follow the wild misadventures of those trouble-causing Gremlins in this delightful retelling of the classic movie
    Picture Book, 2023New York : Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023] — KAP
  • Jo, Melissa, and Jenny, the stars of the school play, are about to discover that being granted everything you wish for has consequences. When the girls come face to face with the real witches from the play and a mysterious ghost from the past, the…
    Book, 2023Oakville, Ont. : Flower Pot Press, 2023. — JF HYDE
  • When Jasper Rabbit finds a purple crayon willing to do his schoolwork for him, he is elated--at first
    Picture Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022. — REY
  • When classmates (but not mate-mates) Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to school on a Saturday, they think things can't get much worse. But they're wrong. Things are about to get seriously scary. What has dragged their teacher…
    Book, 2022London : Farshore, 2022. — JF KILLICK
  • A young girl lives in a haunted house, but has never seen a ghost. Are they white with holes for eyes? Are they hard to see? She'd love to know! Step inside and turn the transparent pages to help her on an entertaining ghost hunt, from behind the…
    Picture Book, 2021London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2021. — JEF

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