Last week I posted an article on Halloween activities. I wrote down a few of my favorite books and realized that I had a huge list of books to share. And so I compiled them and organized them to share here for you! Happy reading!
P.S. I linked the books through several different websites. But almost every book can be found on the big sellers (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Thrift Books).
Young Readers
- Pete The Cat: Five Little Pumpkins by James Dean
- Don’t Push The Button! – A Halloween Treat by Bill Cotter
- Spooky Pookie by Sandra Boynton
- The Spooky Wheels On The Bus by J. Elizabeth Mills and Ben Mantle (Illustrator)
- Goodnight Goon A Terrifying Parody by Michael Rex
- Ten Timid Ghosts by Jennifer O’Connell
Elementary Age Readers – Picture Books
- Monster Trouble by Lane Fredrickson, Michael Robertson (Illustrator)
- This is the House The Monsters Built by Steve Metzger and Jared Lee (Illustrator)
- There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves by Lucille Colandro (Illustrator)
- There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat by Lucille Colandro and Jared Lee (Illustrator)
- Snowmen At Halloween by Caralyn M. Buehner, Mark E. Buehner (Illustrator)
- Nibbles The Book Monster by Emma Yarlett
- The Teacher From the Black Lagoon by Jared Lee and Mike Thaler
- Miss Nelson Is Back by Harry Allard and James Marshall
- Berenstain Bears: Trick Or Treat by Stan Berenstain
- Room On The Broom by Julia Donaldson
- The Giant Jumperee by Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)
- Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown (Illustrator)
- Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown (Illustrator)
- Bonaparte Falls Apart by Margery Cuyler and Will Terry (Illustrator)
- What Was I Scared Of? 10th Anniversary Edition: A Glow-in-the Dark Encounter by Dr. Seuss
- The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams and Megan Lloyd (Illustrator)
- The House That Drac Built by Judy Sierra
- Ghosts In The House by Kazuno Kohara
Elementary Age Leveled Readers/Novels
- Scholastic I Can Read 3: My Parents Think I’m Sleeping – Poems by Jack Prelutsky and Yossi Abolafia (Illustrator)
- The Witches by Roald Dahl (740 Lexile)
- Fablehaven by Brandon Mull (700 Lexile)
- Scholastic I Can Read 2: In A Dark, Dark Room by Alvin Schwartz
- Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz (640 Lexile)
- Happy Haunting Amelia Bedelia by Herman Perish (I Can Read Level 2)
- Monster School: First Day Frights by Dave Keane (I Can Read Level 2)
- Nancy Drew: The Secret of The Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
Middle and High School Students
Novels
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Beowulf
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- The Hound At Baskerville (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Tales From Dark Places by D.C. Rogers
- The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Tales by H.P. Lovecraft
- Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Short Stories
- A Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
- An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
- The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
- Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Lake by Ray Bradbury
- The LandLady by Roald Dahl
- The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
Do you have any favorite spooky books? Let me know!