Chilling Tales to Read Before Halloween
Bad blood
West, Carly Anne. author
2020
Something went wrong with Aaron's dad's last job in Germany, and how Aaron and his family are on the run and end up back in Raven Brooks, a small town that's full of secrets.
Creepy capital : ghost stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region
Leslie, Mark, 1969-, author
2016
Ghosts unveiled!
Hollihan, Kerrie Logan, author
2020
"Ghosts Aghast! explores another true and spine-chilling topic that kids are sure to love: ghosts! Packed with facts but light in tone, award-winning author Kerrie Logan Hollihan takes a humorous but meticulously researched, well-balanced look at ghost appearances, unsolved mysteries, and eerie hauntings around the world-from the perennial Vanishing Hitchhiker, the child-nabbing La Llorona, and Korean water ghosts to school hauntings and wraiths in the White House (including the well-documented ghost of President Abraham Lincoln). For readers looking for a new twist on a much-beloved subject, this quirky nonfiction narrative, illustrated in color, is the perfect fit. Includes endnotes, bibliography, and index"-- Provided by publisher.
The grave thief
Hahn, Dee, author
2022
Twelve-year-old Spade is a grave thief...He's headed for a lifetime of theft when his father comes up with the audacious plan to rob a grave in the Wyndhail castle cemetery. Spade and his brother get caught in a royal trap, and Spade must find the master of the Woegon: a deadly creature that is stalking the castle by night. Along the way, he meets Ember, the queen's niece, and together they race to solve the mystery of the legendary Deepstones and their connection to the Woegon.
Halloween stories : spooky short stories for children
Amon, Uncle.
2015
Happy Halloween! Your child will enjoy this Halloween book full of spooky Halloween stories.
Haunted Canada. 10 : more scary true stories
Sutherland, Joel A., 1980- author
2020
In this terrifying collection of all new haunted stories, author Joel A. Sutherland has put together the creepiest, most bone-chilling tales from coast to coast.
Liar, liar, head on fire
Strange, Vera, author.
2021
Twelve-year-old Hector's family is counting on him to win the Zeus Cup in a race, but when a Greek god offers a deal to help him win, all Hades breaks loose.
The puppets payback and other chilling tales
Hahn, Mary Downing, author
2020
The author of wildly popular ghost stories, Mary Downing Hahn has created a group of tales for fans of her "scary but not too scary" books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary--a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet--into a sinister link to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious trouble. All the stories have a young person as the central character, so all will resonate with young readers who enjoy the eerie, the creepy, and the otherworldly. In a concluding note, the author talks about how she came to write ghost stories.
