#SCARY AUDIO BOOK SERIES#

You can skip around or read it cover to cover. This book was the MOST tattered book in my classroom library. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark retold by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell (ages 8 – 12)

#SCARY AUDIO BOOK SERIES#

If your child loves spooky and scary, this is a great series for them. Sam has quite a wild adventure trying to save the students from the school. Especially when he discovers that the school is ALIVE and trying to harm him and the other students.

Sam isn’t thrilled about becoming a hall monitor. Spooky, Scary Chapter Books Kids Won’t Be Able To Put DownĮerie Elementary: The School is Alive!by Jack Chabert, illustrated by Sam Ricks (ages 6 – 10) Remember, if you like one book, check to see if there are more books in the series or more books by the same author. If you have any favorites that aren’t on this list, please leave them in the comments. Here are the best scary books to keep kids up at night… Stein because both have so many books in this genre. When I think of scary books for kids, I think of authors Mary Downing Hahn and R.L. Best listened to while driving along windy New England roads around Halloween.Creepy, spooky, and scary books are many kids’ favorite reading materials. Add in some strange and disturbing supernatural elements and an even more strange and disturbing killer, and you’ve got the inside of Lauren Beukes’s brain! The Legend of Sleep Hollow by Washington IrvingĪnother one of those tales we all think we know because it’s in our collective pop culture brain, but the details of which can be quite surprising upon actually reading it. Meanwhile, the detective’s daughter is catfishing a dangerous child predator. Broken Monsters by Lauren BeukesĪ kick-ass female detective goes on the hunt for a killer who is mutilating bodies in bizarre ways (the first victim is a boy whose upper half is found sewn onto the bottom half of a deer). His first night there, he encounters a terrifying beastie and then rallies the other inmates (patients?) to fight back. Take a monster, an unreliable protagonist, and a mental institution and smush them all together! Pepper is a man at the wrong place at the wrong time, and as a result he ends up in a Queens mental facility despite not having a mental illness. This one has ick and gore (brains!) and a solid dash of humor, to boot. Then she becomes a zombie and gets a job in a morgue. My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana RowlandĪ teenaged dirtbag named Angel lives in Louisiana and passes time by committing petty crimes and getting high. It’ll have you sitting in your car in the driveway so you can finish it, and then still sitting in the car in the driveway because you’re too scared to get out. Have to include this work of scary short stories from Ballingrud, which features the most frightening werewolf story I have ever read (or heard) in my entire life.

North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud Also, it’s always a good idea to actually experience for yourself books like this that are so engrained in pop culture that we forget the actual details of the story.Īlso, remember how a teenaged girl invented science fiction? That’s fun. See above re: getting through the classics on audio. The production uses sound design and music to create the atmosphere you’re missing from the artwork here, and the results are impressive. Secondly, yes, Locke & Key is a graphic novel. Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguezįirst of all, Kate Mulgrew, Tatiana Maslany, and Haley Joel Osment are among the narrators of this one.

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