Spooky & Scary for Halloween (Kids October 2022) | Indian Prairie Public Library District

1) Don't turn out the lights: a tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary stories to tell in the dark

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"A life-size baby doll who stalks its prey. A flesh-hungry ogre who jingle jangles when he walks. A haunted house just dying for a visitor. What do all these things have in common? In collaboration with the Horror Writers Association, New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Jonathan Maberry has compiled a gruesome collection of terrifying stories--in tribute to Alvin Schwartz's classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series--that...

2) Spirit hunters

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Series

Spirit hunters volume 1

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Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. She knows that the memories she's blocking will help make sense of her brother's behavior and the strange and threatening sensations she feels in this house, but will she be able to put the pieces together in time?...

3) The gathering

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Series

Shadow House volume 1

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Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House--and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape....

4) The girl in the lake

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Brown, India Hill

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"Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. After failing her swimming lessons, she is done with the water--and she knows the trip is just a way to get her in the lake. Her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation at public pools. They want Celeste...

5) The puppet's payback and other chilling tales

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Hahn, Mary Downing

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From ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, an assortment of eerie short stories to thrill and chill young readers.

6) Small spaces

Author

Arden, Katherine

Series

Small spaces quartet volume 1

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"After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces"--

7) Monsters in the mist

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Brandt, Juliana

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"When Glennon McCue moves into a lighthouse on a mysterious island not found on any maps, he must figure out why those who visit are never heard from again before he and his family fall victim to the island's curse"--

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"Westworld meets Charlie and the Chocolate factory meets Jurassic Park, as kids win a chance to enter the place of their dreams -- and find that it quickly turns into a nightmare. It's all anyone talks about, and it's all Cody dreams about. It's the biggest adventure park in the world, and it's more than mere rides and rollercoasters: At escape, you can do anything you want, be anyone you want, and there are no adults to tell you no. Cody's a nobody,...

9) Mine

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Dawson, Delilah S

Description

"Twelve-year-old Lily moves to a creepy old house in a Florida swamp and finds out that the house isn't empty: it's packed full of the previous occupants' trash, keepsakes, and, Lily begins to suspect, maybe even their ghosts"--

10) Attack of the vampire weenies and other warped and creepy tales

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Series

Weenies short story collections volume 5

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Thirty creepy stories about warped technology, revengeful ants, sadistic gym teachers, and other terrifying things. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.

11) Scary stories to tell in the dark: three books to chill your bones

Author

Schwartz, Alvin

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

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Traditional and modern-day tales and "jump" stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, haunts, superstitions, monsters and horrible scary things.

12) Passion and poison: tales of shape-shifters, ghosts, and spirited women

Author

Del Negro, Janice

Description

Contains eight short stories about female ghosts, all authored by Janice Del Negro.

13) Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas

Author

Lashner, William

Series

Elizabeth Webster volume 1

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Description

When popular Henry Harrison asks twelve-year-old Elizabeth to help dispel a ghost that speaks her name, she calls on her estranged father and learns he is an attorney for the damned.

14) The stitchers

Author

Lawrence, Lorien

Series

Fright watch volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Thirteen-year-olds Quinn Parker and Mike Warren uncover the awful truth about their strange neighbors and the gruesome secret of how they stay young.

15) Secrets of Camp Whatever: Vol. 1

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Series

Secrets of Camp Whatever volume 1

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eComic, Graphic Novel

Description

"Eleven-year-old Willow doesn't want to go to her dad's weird old summer camp any more than she wants her family to move to the weird old town where that camp is located. But her family--and fate itself--seem to have plans of their own. Soon Willow finds herself neck-deep in a confounding mystery involving stolen snacks, suspected vampires, and missing campers, all shrouded in the sinister fog that hides a generation of secrets at Camp ... whatever...

16) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: graphic novel

Author

Burgan, Michael

Series

Graphic revolve

Description

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. In graphic novel format.

17) The last gargoyle

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Penhallow Fitch, a gargoyle assigned to protect a Boston apartment building, must fight against evil spirits called Netherkin and the Boneless King to keep the residents of the building and the city safe.