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1) Dracula
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Language
English
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Description
After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
2) Twilight
Author
Series
Twilight saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
3) Coraline
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Language
English
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Spooky Middle Grade
The Perks of Being Left Off the Time Best of YA List
Spooky Middle Grade
The Perks of Being Left Off the Time Best of YA List
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Series
Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Grab a flashlight, crawl under the covers, and dive into the twisted, unexpectedly hilarious world of Rowley Jefferson?s imagination. You?ll meet zombies, vampires, ghosts, and much more in these comically terrifying tales. Rowley?s spooky stories might leave you laughing, but beware?you could end up sleeping with the lights on!
6) Eclipse
Author
Series
Twilight saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of...
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Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
Language
English
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Spooky Children/Middle Grade Books for October
Spooky Middle Grade
Things to Keep You Up at Night - 2023
Spooky Middle Grade
Things to Keep You Up at Night - 2023
Description
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time. In this paperback edition, Stephen Gammell's artwork from the original Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark appears in all its spooky glory. Read if you dare!
10) City of bones
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 1
Language
English
Description
Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
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Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 2
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English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film! More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends. Folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time. Scary stories series, 112pp.
13) The Jumbies
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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2023-2024 OBOB 3rd-5th Grade
African Animals- Children's Book List
Popular Retellings
Spooky Middle Grade
African Animals- Children's Book List
Popular Retellings
Spooky Middle Grade
Description
A spine-tingling tale rooted in Caribbean folklore about an ordinary girl who must use her extraordinary bravery--and a bit of magic--to save her island home from jumbies, the scary spirits that haunt the forest.
Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just tricksters parents make up to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into...
14) Hide and seeker
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English
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Something is wrong with twelve-year-old Zee, who has returned after a year's absence; nobody knows where he was or what happened to him, but now he is distracted and violent, freaking out when he sees his friends, Justin, Nia, and Lyric, playing an odd game of hide-and-seek, and talking wildly about some danger that is approaching--and soon his friends are pulled into a shadowy world ruled by a monstrous, shape-shifting Seeker, forced to play a terrifying...
Author
Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1899, a twelve-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.
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian--but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance.."--
18) Northanger Abbey
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English
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Description
'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis
With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. It tells the story of young, impressionable Catherine Morland, whose first experience of fashionable society introduces her to the thrills of Gothic romances, and to the sophisticated Tilneys, who invite her
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Language
English
Description
The most beloved and oft-adapted work by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a love triangle in the New York countryside in 1790. Sleepy Hollow, a supposedly haunted glen on the outskirts of Tarry Town, is home to a particularly ghoulish fiend - the Headless Horseman - who is said to be the specter of a fallen soldier. Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with local hero Abraham 'Brom Bones' Van Brunt for the...
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