Children's Horror and Ghost Stories Books

** WATTY'S WINNER 2021 **When the human race faces extinction, the scarecrows will rise.Erin loved to build scarecrows. She made a dozen in all. Her Pa showed her how. But he's dead now. Everyone is dead. Well... almost.The Many Years Storm flooded the...

If monsters don't exist, why is everyone in this town obsessed with yowies? All Jacinta wants is to go back home to Sydney, but her mum must solve a case first: a missing person with no clues, unless you count eyewitnesses who saw him get eaten...

Sometimes the pages just write themselves... as though, the spirit of the wood still lives between the text, dancing between pages and weaving magic. Alyson meets a tree dryad who helps Alyson on her latest adventure, that is, until the book the spirit...

The sequel to Beyond the Bondary Fence and Until the Storm Passes!"I dared to believe it was over..."Two years after defeating the sinister creatures who dwelt in the bushland surrounding his home, Brody Webb returns to the Golden Pastures Estate to...

Abbie Fray has moved with her family from Sydney to Derrington, a country town where everybody knows everybody and the mobile reception sucks. She’s left behind her best friend, her school, and her favourite bakery. She thinks her life can't...

Caught Up in Leaves and Vines is a collection of short stories featuring a range of genres and themes. These stories are an even mix of wholesome and unsettling, not leaving readers short of laughs and tears where necessary.This book contains 19 short...

After a prank goes horribly wrong, you find yourself on a bus to summer camp for wayward juveniles - Camp crypt. But something's not right. Why is the camp director sparkling? And does the bus driver have horns?Pick the right Trail and you might escape...

Me And Eli is a story about two boys, Zach, a lonely Amish boy and the other, Eli, a forest boy. They discover each other one June evening in 1952 in the woods surrounding Zach's parent's farm and together they share a summer of carefree fun doing the...

Halloween is CANCELLED?! No way!Something scary has creeped into town and stopped Boone's favorite holiday from happening. The stores are closed. His friends are all stuck inside. This year, it's all tricks and no treats.With hard work and a big...

No Thanks, Simon! is the hilarious yet heartwarming story about a toddler named Simon who makes Dennis the Menace look like a choirboy. But he's only two years old---how bad can it be?  What could possibly go wrong with a jar of peanut butter;...

A desperate journey into the unknown Food is scarce, the Glittering realms in chaos and solutions fast disappearing.  Twins Delvina and Retza have always stood shoulder to shoulder. Now new strategies are needed. Will new challenges pull the twins...

Gris Grimly's Frankenstein is a twisted, fresh, and utterly original full-length, full-color graphic-novel adaptation of Mary Shelley's original text, brought to life by acclaimed illustrator Gris Grimly."Grimly enlivens the prose while retaining its...

It is the season of Samhain, also celebrated as Hallowe'en. The crisp of Fall is in the air. Spirits are amiss in the town of Hollow Creek when a portal that should've stayed closed, is accidentally opened. A medieval knight, misplaced in time,...

This is an exciting book about a brother and sister moving to a new place and finding a house that is not like any other. Matt and Lizzy find themselves in a home where they find adventure, ghosts, and more questions than answers. Here is a...

Myra fell from the trapeze, and then she fell in love. Which one will hurt her the most?Something is not right at the circus. Since Myra’s accident, there have been an unexplainable number of falls, and a strange, hot wind whispering through the...

Sometimes, Christmas can be scarier than Halloween.Ho, ho, hoYou better tip-toeHo, ho, hoWe need to goUp on the rooftopClick, click, clickHere for the naughty kidsBad Saint NickSiblings Hannah and Jack are new in town. But their problems are much bigger...

A group of teenagers are granted asylum from the apocalypse only to be forced to re-enact famous, tragic literary romances... or die.A novel about escaping psychological abuse.When the world is breaking all someone wants is safety. A virus that had once...

In the Charleston Harbor rests an old abandoned military fort. History and mystery surround Castle Pinckney. And there's a reason the living call it, The Ghost Isle. Squojo has slipped out of the orphanage, again. While adventurin’ with...

Ghosts are real, and so are the ones who hunt them...Huntliegh Parrish has one goal, and that's to take down the ghost, Josiah Morcant, who killed her parents four years ago. She's spent most of her life learning about the world of spirits, and with the...

Susie Steele and her friends are back for this second action-packed adventure filled with magic and mayhem.A MAGNET FOR TROUBLE. A RULE BREAKER. THE WORLD'S ONLY HOPE.Fresh from capturing murderous ghosts with the help of her friends and a bad-tempered...

The Witch HauntingWhat would you do if a spooky, magical witch was following you and you had nowhere to hide?Darryl Riley thought he'd never meet a witch, though, he never knew that was about to change. Darryl is an ordinary seventeen year old from...

Is magic a blessing or a curse?  An Australian coastal town called Jamadget Castle that has been under supernatural attack for decades. In the nearby forest a dimension rip known as the Goblin Gate lets out bizarre creatures that terrorise the...

A dark fantasy debut perfect for fans of House of Salt and Sorrow, The Hazel Wood, and L.J. Smith's The Forbidden Game trilogy.It was supposed to be a fun school trip to Germany's infamous Black Forest, but the castle they're staying in doesn't match the...

<h4><em></em><b></b>Offer your kids the spooky story experience they have been craving. <b></b><br></h4><p><em></em><em>Campfire Stories for Kids Part II: A Scary Ghost, Witch...

Some kids are afraid of ghosts. Ian Stanley can't stand them.Life isn't easy for a kid who sees ghosts. It's bad enough he's different from everyone else. It's even worse that the ghosts are just as mean as his classmates! That's just reality for Ian...

Freaky fun!A spooky night, a haunted house. Are you brave enough to go inside?Trick-or-treating has never been this much fun . . . or scary. Irene Mathia's The Short Straw is a narrative Halloween poem for children - spooky, but not too...

With a month and a half passed from the day he was bitten, Alex Stryker's second full moon approaches. Though now better versed in what he must do, Shane remains a wild card in his life. Along with the growing risk of a dangerous hunt, and loss...

One, two, the ghosts are coming for you... Three, four, better salt your door... Five, six, death and hatred mix... Seven, eight, help will come too late... Nine, ten, never reap again...Seventeen year old Mattie Hathaway has enough on her plate without...

Matthew and Anna are full of excitement when they learn their family is going on a Disney cruise. With the magic of Disney both children are propelled into an adventure far below the ocean when they are asked to help the sea creatures get rid of a...

In a post-apocalypse world where everyone over eighteen has become a zombie, seventeen-year-old Alex Stevens and his friends fight their way across England to save Alex’s kid sister from certain death. But the dead are not the only threat they face...

Luke is the brave leader of all the cats in the North of Exeter. Or so he claims… On the night of Halloween, he plans to overthrow the feared dogs of The Unspeakable South by summoning a mighty cat army. But Fergus, a rough dog from the other side...

A secret. A weapon. A spell. I'm Emily Sanderson, and I'm not an ordinary vampire. My life's been turned upside down more times than I can handle, and all I want is to figure out my newest powers and to keep studying at Mistwood Academy, the school...

After Rose takes something deeply important to Hanna, the Seer is determined to hunt the tricky magic user down, no matter what. Hanna pools all her resources together, tugging on any string she can think of, including going to the necromancers and...

A classic folk tale originated in 1882 by Dupris Knight. This adaption will captivate the imaginations of children ages 3-9 years old. Surprise elements and spooky voices keep children on the edge of their seats, as they enter into the world of a haunted...

The Bashara girls, Aliyah and Amirah, have been getting into trouble at home and at school. Right before spring break, they are almost suspended. In leu of punishment, their parents take them on a family retreat to build a better relationship and help...

Bard's Blood #2Think you know Shakespeare? Think again. Will's immortal tales often have a higher body count than a teenage slasher flick - and just as many freakish creatures, and author David Bergantino's retrofitting has turned Shakespeare's...

Bard's Blood #1The classic tales of William Shakespeare are often as packed with gore and corpses as the scariest slasher flick -- and can spawn equally gruesome sequels....Football star Cameron Dean is genuine campus royalty at Globe University, but his...