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Spooky Chapter Books

Looking to get in a spooky mood? Check out some of these classic spooky books or find a brand-new scare. These chapter books are sure to thrill readers of every level.

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  • In 1899, a 12-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
    BookLos Angeles : Disney*Hyperion, 2015 — JFICTION BEATTY
  • When London is overrun by malevolent spirits, a talented group of young psychic detectives compete against other ghostbusting agencies. The first book in a series that finds three intrepid colleagues investigating one of England's most…
    BookNew York : Disney-Hyperion Books, [2013] — JFICTION STROUD
  • 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 she's not. Things at the old house get spookier until one evening when Celeste looks in…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2022 — JFICTION BROWN
  • Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2013 — JFICTION BLACK
  • Surviving a near-fatal accident that gives her the ability to enter the spirit world, the daughter of television ghost-hunters visits with her ghost best friend and meets another girl who shares her abilities before realizing the dangers…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Inc., [2019] — JFICTION SCHWAB
  • Running away after freezing up during a theater camp audition, Olive finds herself at a beautiful old theater that inspires her to sing on its stage before a glamorous actress who overhears her recruits her into a cast of eclectic misfits…
    BookNew York : Random House, [2017] — JFICTION SCHUSTERMAN
  • Discovering a magical dream world in the woods near her home, a girl mourning the disappearance of her brother agrees to give up a memory in exchange for entry, before she encounters a malevolent being who has brought her brother’s worst…
    BookNew York : Philomel Books, 2020 — JFICTION SAVARYN
  • The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019 — JFICTION HEIDICKER
  • Twins Theo and Alexander and their sister Wil are abruptly dropped off at their Aunt Saffronia's house, where they learn they must complete a series of tasks in order to see their parents again and their first assignment is at a waterpark.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2022] — JFICTION WHITE
  • Harper doesn’t trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family’s new house is haunted. Harper isn’t sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — JFICTION OH
  • Frightmares

    a Creepy Collection of Scary Stories

    Dahl, Michael,
    This compilation of four separately published books of scary stories contains plenty of chills: The Stranger on the Stairs, The Doll that Waved Goodbye, The Voice in the Boys' Room, and The Phantom on the Phone.
    BookNorth Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, [2016] — JFICTION DAHL
  • After 11-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to venture through frightening woods, relying on her wits to survive and sticking to small spaces.
    BookNew York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018] — JFICTION ARDEN
  • Lindy and Kris become interested in ventriloquism, but they hardly suspect that Kris' new dummy has a mind of its own.
    BookNew York : Scholastic, [2008], c1993 — JFICTION STINE
  • Trapped inside the sinister estate where the past and present intertwine, Poppy, Marcus, Dash, Dylan and Azumi gradually discover that the secrets they each hold are more sinister than the house's ghosts.
    BookNew York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2017 — JFICTION POBLOCKI
  • A dark and twisted story about a sleepy town with a dark secret and the three kids brave enough to uncover it. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things.
    BookNew York : Viking, 2020 — JFICTION MARSHALL
  • Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the…
    Large PrintWaterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018 — JFICTION AUXIER
  • Set during a single day of school, the students race against the clock to complete an unsettling list of tasks. They'll do whatever it takes to keep their secrets hidden, but when they discover what the blackmailer has in mind, they…
    BookNew York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2021] — JFICTION BENEDISGRAB
  • Jack and his three best friends must discover why the zombies are disappearing, and along the way encounter pizza parlor monsters, an ancient evil who destroys worlds, and the best stereo system a treehouse can hold.
    BookNew York, New York : Viking, [2016] — JFICTION BRALLIER
  • Twelve-year-old Charlie and his friends must stop nightmares from taking over their town before it's too late.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Books, [2014] — JFICTION SEGEL
  • Ophelia, a timid 11-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2014] — JFICTION FOXLEE