Book Lists: Scary Stories

When fifteen-year-old Lexi's younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts about previous occupants of the house, leading her to believe that many lives are in danger

When an army of zombies rise in Philadelphia, Eleanor Fitt soon learns that however is controlling the undead has also taken her brother. Now, she must race to stop these supernatural forces before it's too late.

It's been years since sixteen-year-old Gretchen's mom disappeared. When Gretchen inherits the crumbling mansion her mother grew up in, she never imagines the haunted past that echoes within its walls. But after moving in, she is haunted by ghostly visions, and soon Gretchen realizes that in order to move forward, she'll need to face down the ghosts of her family's past.

Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.

Although housebound following an eerie accident, teenaged Ryan continues to investigate the strange occurrences in his hometown of Skeleton Creek, recording his findings in a journal and viewing email video clips sent by fellow detective Sarah.

When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she'll be Annie's best--and only--friend soon.

Maine artist Clayton Riddell, elated after closing the deal for his first comic book, comes down to Earth quickly when a brain-zapping energy burst--The Pulse--strikes, reducing cell phone users to zombie-like creatures, and leaving Clayton desperate to find a way home from Boston to see if his wife and son have survived.

After the residents of White Chapel, New York, raid the belongings of recently deceased hoarder Ursula Chambers, Cassidy Bean discovers that the ghosts of Ursula and the other restless dead are seeking vengeance on the living.

A group of students at a secluded boarding school struggle to put a stop to a plague carried by silver beetles that is turning their classmates into bloodthirsty zombies.

Sixteen-year-old Delia Piven accompanies her family to their ancestral home Hysteria Hall, a former insane asylum, to prepare it for sale. Once there, Delia discovers that the house doesn't like defiant girls like Delia so it kills her. Now Delia wanders the halls of the house with other ghosts--and a secret evil. Delia is forced to uncover the house's secret in order to save her sister from the same fate.

Morton, James, Melissa, and their father have just moved into an old house in a new town, and when Morton finds a creepy gargoyle buried in the yard, he and his siblings each make a wish--and find out that they have unleashed chaos.

When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means.

B, who does not buy into her father's racism, but goes along with it to avoid being abused, acts out at school by getting into fights and being mean, but, when zombies attack, she must try to find students with whom to team up in order to fend them off.

After her friend's mysterious death, Sophie goes to stay with her cousins on the Isle of Skye. And their peculiar ways hide secrets that when revealed could have sinister consequences for Sophie's future.

When journalist Ashley Reeves finds himself on an island to interview Reginald Mather, a reclusive insect collector, he soon realizes that he might be the hunted.

Following the outbreak of a disease that has turned everyone over the age of sixteen into zombies, a group of young survivors barricade themselves in a store and struggle to survive. Eventually, they are offered a safe haven within Buckingham Palace, but quickly discover that the dangers inside the palace are just as real as those outside it.

A horror story of a children's pet semetary and another graveyard behind it from which the dead return.

Seventh-grader Timothy July and his new friend Abigail try to break a curse that is causing them and others to be tormented by their greatest fears brought to life.

After being possessed by a powerful demon, Mia is saved by her cousins who ask that she return with them to Milan, Italy. There, she learns the family trade of fighting demons and is placed at the center of a timeless conflict.

A homeless girl and her Ma, always hiding from the authorities, take shelter in an abandoned mill in the center of a big city, but when developers make plans to knock the mill down, everything changes, prompting the girl to wonder what kind of ghosts are haunting both the mill and her mother.

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

Ever since a car accident killed her father and gave her a severe concussion, high school junior Lisa has been plagued by nightmares and hallucinations, but when she accepts a babysitting job in hopes it will banish the disturbing images, she faces new terror as she begins to question exactly who--or what--she is babysitting.

An ancient and terrifying Narragansett Native American legend begins to come true for a teenage long-distance runner whose recovery from the accident that killed her parents has stunned everyone, including her guardian aunt in Providence, Rhode Island.

When Hadley reluctantly explores the new house she shares with her mother, stepfather, and stepbrother, she discovers a mysterious dollhouse filled with a family of perfect dolls. Hadley can't stay away from dolls, but when she discovers a lone glass eye rolling around on her attic floor one day, her life turns upside down.

Cujo, a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, becomes infected with rabies and kills four people in Maine.

A summer resort comes chillingly to life in the off-season when the Torrances arrive to take over as winter caretakers.

When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.

Cas Lowood, armed with his late father's mysterious athame, set out to kill a ghost known as Anna Dressed in Blood, but what he believes will be a routine task turns deadly when he discovers Anna is unlike any ghost he has ever encountered before.

During a long car trip, best friends Quinn and Kara explore the strange and creepy goings-on at a remote Nevada inn when Kara's family stops for the night.

Josie and her brothers investigate mysterious happenings in their haunted hometown, including a Polaroid camera that prints pictures of a ghost, cursed jewelry, the specter of Mothman, and a century-old mystery.

Josie Sandoval and Eli Barker are the youngest of the wedding guests trapped on an island off the coast of Maine when a storm blows in--but this island is haunted by spirits seeking revenge, and the only clue that Josie and Eli have is a scrap of an old Nazi uniform and a voice crying out for help in German.

When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.

After surviving the accident that killed his father, high school student Jacob Fielding discovers he is indestructible, a burden that soon weighs heavy on Jacob's shoulders.

After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right.

Contains all six installments of the serialized horror novel about death row prisoner John Coffey and his fellow inmates and guards in the Green Mile wing of Cold Mountain Penitentiary.

When the young host of a party opens a mysterious box hidden in his father's study, he releases a dark force into the world that terrorizes each of the party's guests.