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Kids love Scary Stories. We are delighted to offer, in association with Amazon.com (the world's largest bookstore), a special selection of the best scary stories for kids! Many of the titles below are offered at substantial discount to list prices. Any suggestions for additional stories to feature here? Please let us know.

Darkhouse (Experiment in Terror #1) Karina Halle. With all the vampire, werewolf and faerie books out there, it's easy to become numb to all things supernatural. The antidote? Darkhouse introduces two real and unforgettable characters, Perry Palomino & Dex Foray, amateur ghost hunters who are "attractive, relatable and oddly heroic," "flawed but loveable," "slightly crazy" and just the most endearing pair to ever tackle the paranormal.	Bound, An Arelia LaRue Novel #1 YA Paranormal Romance (The Arelia LaRue Series) Kira Saito. Sixteen year old Arelia LaRue lives in New Orleans where the music is loud, voodoo queens inhabit every street corner, and the ghosts are alive and well. Despite her surroundings, all she wants is to help her Grand-mere Bea pay the rent and save up for college.	Sophie's Secret (Whispers) Tara West. After shedding 30 pounds of baby fat, Sophie Sinora has grown into a pretty, but insecure, teen in bloom. To make her life more complicated, Sophie can sometimes read minds. - Sophie's BFFs, AJ and Krysta, are also 'gifted' with paranormal abilities.
The Yellow Man : A Ghost Story (Wraith Books) Hunter Laurenne. Hunter Laurenne's The Yellow Man - Michael Fischer's life is what many people may describe as perfect; handsome looks at the tender age of fourteen, affluent parents who still find time for him despite their successful careers, a lavish address near Wall Street, and all the other luxurious things kids his age only see in magazines.	Forty-Four (44) Jools Sinclair. Last year after falling through the ice, seventeen-year-old Abby Craig woke up from death. - But she woke into a world she barely recognizes. She can’t see colors, memories have been erased, and her friends all hate her.	The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5) Rick Riordan. All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows.
The Haunting of Pico Patrick Kampman. Pico, Texas is full of secrets, as Chris discovers when his family unwittingly moves into the town’s haunted house. As an Asian adoptee relocating from a big city, Chris worries about fitting into a small-town high school still using a Rebel soldier for its mascot.	The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) Rick Riordan. When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it’s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans.	Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires Rachel Caine. With its eclectic mix of vampire and human citizens, Morganville, Texas, has always been a risky place to call home. But with the invasion of the vampire’s deadliest enemy, Morganville isn’t just in danger—it’s dying… Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil.
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) Rick Riordan. As an incoming freshman, Percy isn't expecting his high school orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.	RED FOX Karina Halle. RED FOX is BOOK #2 in the Experiment in Terror Series - In the forgotten town of Red Fox, a Navajo couple is tortured by things unseen and by motives unknown. Wild animals slink through their house in the dark, a barrage of stones pound their roof nightly, and mutilated sheep carcasses are turning up on their property.	Scary Mary S.A. Hunter. Mary just wants to be left alone, but the cheerleaders, jocks, and ghosts won't stop harrassing her. When new student Cyrus starts school, he tries to befriend her. That's a rare thing for the school freak, but her unusual abilities put a rift in their budding friendship when she has to tell him that his home is haunted and not by Casper, the friendly ghost.
12-21-12 Parker Lee. Teenagers Cody and John Cottrell are shaken awake by a cataclysmic earthquake in the first minutes of December 21st 2012, the day the Mayan calendar ends. They soon discover that zombies are rising from their graves as they battle their way to their home in Sedona, Arizona, to search for their parents and friends.	No Way Out - And Other Scary Short Stories MJA Ware. Includes two free additional short stories. That's three 'terrorific' short stories for one low price. - No Way out - Mike takes a bet to go inside a haunted house, but will he live long enough to collect? - Also includes: The Price of Friendship - How much is a best friend worth? Joey finds out the hard way.	Barely Alive (Barely Alive Series) Bonnie R. Paulson. In twelve weeks, seventeen-year-old Paul Ledger will be dead. At least he hopes so. - Paul is trapped in the worst cult the United States has ever seen. Infected with a zombie virus, symptoms culminate in a dead body but thriving mind over a course of twelve weeks.

More Scary Stories

PETER AND THE VAMPIRES (Volume One) Darren Pillsbury. For fans of J. K. Rowling (the HARRY POTTER series), Orson Scott Card (ENDER’S GAME), and Darren Shan (CIRQUE DU FREAK)… - When ten-year-old Peter moves into his grandfather’s creepy old mansion in a small town, bad, baaaaad things start to happen.

Change of Fate (The Briar Creek Vampires, Book 4) Jody Morse. When Lexi and Dan were sucked into the book, they left their world as they know it behind. Stuck in a strange, new place with only each other for support, Dan and Lexi begin to confide in each other. Will they settle their differences? Or has Lexi traveled back in time with the one person in Briar Creek who had always had it out for her from the very beginning? Meanwhile, Austin, Gabe, Anna, and Craig scramble to find Lexi’s father, the only person who might know how to bring Dan and Lexi home.

Run (The Hunted) Patti Larsen. YA THRILLER: Sixteen-year-old Reid thinks life is back to normal. His sister Lucy pulls herself together and cuts him free from a year of foster care. She promises to take care of him, that her new boss and her new life are what they both needed to start again.

Unfinished Carol Oates. Jonas is already raising eyebrows at his new school and Cathy's day isn’t going much better. Everyone is acting as if she isn’t there, her twin is usurping her friends and her occasional boyfriend is moving on.

On Demon Wings (Experiment in Terror #5) Karina Halle. On Demon Wings is the 5th book in the Experiment in Terror Series. . . When the life you wanted has crumbled beneath your fingers, there's nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and soldier on. You've done this before.

The Grave Artist Paula Lynn Johnson. 16-year-old Clare can't stop drawing the bizarre, winged skulls she calls "Sammies". Her psychiatrist assumes the compulsive drawings are just expressions of Clare's grief over her father abandoning her.

ParaNorman: A Novel Extended Free Preview Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. In a quaint New England town with a history of witches and pilgrims, misunderstood eleven-year-old Norman Babcock can see and talk to ghosts. No one believes him, of course-everyone just thinks he's weird (including his parents).

Dead Flesh (The Kiera Hudson Series Two (Book One)) Tim O'Rourke. When Kiera and her friends return from the dead, they soon realise that the world is not the same – it has been pushed. Returning to Hallowed Manor, Kiera soon learns that it’s not only the world that has changed, she is changing, too.

Cult of the Fly Anthony Williams. The last place Jessica wanted to be stuck during Spring Break was in a hotel in the middle of the desert with her family. What she didn't anticipate was stumbling upon dark secrets undiscovered for decades.

Wraith Angel Lawson. Freak. Weird. Crazy. These are the names tossed around seventeen-year old Jane Watts by her fellow classmates. But things aren’t always as they seem. Sometimes there’s a reason for talking to yourself in the hallway at school.

Beware the Easter Moon De Kenyon. Colin’s tired of Grandpa stealing kids’ chocolate Easter eggs. So he hatches a plan to make his Granpa eat one of last year’s Easter eggs. One of the regular kind. That stinks when it gets rotten.

The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.

Destined to Die (The Briar Creek Vampires, Book 3) Jayme Morse. When Lexi finds herself standing face-to-face with her cousin, Austin, who she believed to be dead, everything in her worlds turns upside down. Escaping Briar Creek and the vampires in it is only the first step that she must take to ensure her own safety.

Punished Arelia LaRue Book #2 YA Paranormal Fantasy/Romance (The Arelia LaRue Series) Kira Saito. Punished is the follow-up novel to Bound and is the second book in the Arelia LaRue Series! - Down in New Orleans, Arelia Larue’s once ordinary life has quickly transformed into something truly extraordinary.