We wish you a Halloween haunted by your favorite books. And in case you want to find some new creepy favorites, we’ve gathered some of ours here. Read to the end to find our most recommended creepy book. Prepare to be spooked!
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- The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street by Lindsay Currie (Aladdin 2017)
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- The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (Amulet 2014)
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- Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Clarion, 2014)
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- Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Clarion 2017)
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- I Text Dead People by Rose Cooper (Delacorte 2015)
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- Coraline by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins 2002)
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- The Swallow: A Ghost Story by Charis Cotter (Tundra, 2014)
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- The Only Ones by Aaron Starmer (Delacorte 2011)
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- The Year of Shadows by Claire Legrand (Simon and Schuster 2013)
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- The Screaming Staircase (Book 1 of Lockwood & Co.) by Jonathan Stroud (Disney 2013)
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- Thornhill (a graphic novel) by Pam Smy (Roaring Brook 2017)
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- The Aviary by Kathleen O’Dell (Knopf 2011)
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- Miss Peregrine’s House for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Quirk 2011)
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- It Came From Beneath the Sink (Goosebumps #30) by R.L. Stine (Scholastic 2003)
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- The Haunted School (Goosebumps series) by R.L. Stine (Scholastic 2005)
And the number one most recommended creepy book:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins 2008)
What are your favorite creepy middle grade books? Tell us in the comments!
Anne-Marie Strohman (co-editor) writes picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult short stories and novels. She is trained as a teacher, an editor, and a scholar, specializing in Renaissance Literature. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is an active member of SCBWI. Find her at amstrohman.com and on Twitter @amstrwriter.
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