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Chillers and Thrillers for Middle Readers

Diane Goode's Book of Scary Stories & Songs

j808.80375 qD538 1994

Chances are, you've heard at least one of these creepy tales while sitting around a campire. Read the book; learn the stories, scare your friends silly.

Faces in the Dark: A Book of Scary Stories

j813.08733 qF138 1994

A scary group of ten stories, including Widdershins. Michael tempts fate and returns home to find a huge black dog on his bed, in the dark...waiting. Read these at night, in the dark, and out loud...if you dare!

The Haunted House: A Collection of Original Stories

j813.08733 H373 1995

Seven mysterious and creepy tales-each by a different author-that will make you wonder just what the strange noise in the next room really is!

The Scary Book

j398.2 S287 1991

A collection of old and new favorites including ghosts, talking animals, witches, tongue twisters, jokes, and riddles.

Scream of the Cat

by Lynn Beach

jFiction

Tamara sees a handsome young Native American but her photo shows a mountain lion. What are these desert dwellers trying to tell her?

Professor Popkin's Prodigious Polish

by Bill Brittain

jFiction

Trying to get rich quicky lands Luther in a mess of a trouble when he brings machines to life. He must stop them before the whole town is destroyed.

McMummy

by Betsy Byars

jFiction

Mozie discovers a giant human-sized plant pod in his neighbor's greenhouse. Worse still, it is humming and moving and seems to be coming to life.

Great Ghosts

by Daniel Cohen

j133.1 C678gr 1990

Read these eerie accounts and decide for yourself if you believe in ghosts.

The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story

by Sid Fleischman

jFiction

Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) leads to pirate ships, witch hunts, a treasure map, and a discovery that will save the Stebbin's family home.

Grandpa's Ghost Stories

by James Flora

j398.47 qF632 1978

Grandpa tells of the time when he found the bag of old bones, got trapped in the cave of the warty witch and was eaten by a werewolf in the house of the ghastly ghost.

In a Messy, Messy Room

by Judith Gorog

jFiction

A collection of eleven gross, funny, and bizarre tales that will spook you.

The Secret of the Floating Phantom

by Norma Lehr

jFiction

Ghostly ships, spooky fog, and a mysterious floating phantom stand between Kathy Wicklow and a pirate's lost treasure.

Dracula is a Pain in the Neck

by Elizabeth Levy

jFiction

Robert refuses to go to camp without his plastic Dracula doll but once there, fears the doll is responsible for strange happenings. This sends Robert in search of the real Dracula.

Seven Spiders Spinning

by Gregory Maguire

jFiction

Seven prehistoric spiders are revived and imprint themselves on seven young girls as their "mothers." But beware; the spiders hide a deadly secret.

Monstra vs. Irving

by Stephen Manes

jFiction

Irving thinks his little sister is a monster, and then she turns into one.

The Vampire in Love

by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

jFiction

The adventures of Tony and his vampire friends are interrupted when Olga Pigsbubble flies in from Transylvania and falls head over heels in love with Tony.

The Case of the Wandering Werewolf

by Drew Stevenson

jFiction

Three monster-hunting friends use library research to bait and trap a werewolf.

Birdy and the Ghosties

by Jill Paton Walsh

jFiction

Birdy's gift of second sight helps her and her family when three ghosties board her father's boat.

The Ghost Comes Calling

by Betty Ren Wright

jFiction

Chad's discovery of an angry ghost is frightening but he is determined to solve the mystery and get justice for the ghost at last.

Revenge of the Dolls

by Carol Beach York

jFiction

Alice's Great Aunt Sarah makes horrible rag dolls that she claims talk to her, but only Alice knows this is true and sees how dangerous the dolls really are.