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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.

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 Woman in Black: A Ghost Story (Vintage) Susan Hill. The classic ghost story by Susan Hill: a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford—a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway—to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, Mrs.	A Drowned Maiden's Hair Laura Amy Schlitz. Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence. So when the charming Miss Hyacinth chooses her to take home, the girl is pleased but baffled, until she learns of her new role: helping to stage elaborate séances for bereaved patrons.
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.	If I Were Your Monster Scott Nicholson. IF I WERE YOUR MONSTER - A father tells a bedtime story to his young daughter, sharing different kinds of spooky creatures and teaching her how to overcome fear. In this fully illustrated tale, the monsters are protectors against the bullies and mean people of the world.	Flowers Scott Nicholson. "Always surprises and always entertains. " --Jonathan Maberry, ROT AND RUIN - A fantasy and paranormal collection. Contains the Writers of the Future Award-winning story "The Vampire Shortstop" and 11 other tales of magic, romance, and the supernatural, including the Makers series in which children control the essential forces of the world.
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.	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.	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.
The Ghost in Me Shaunda Kennedy Wenger. The Ghost in Me, where GHOST ADVENTURES meets FREAKY FRIDAY. . . - Myri Monaco has problems she doesn't know how to deal with: a crush on her best friend's boyfriend, a mother who's dating her science teacher, and a "punishment" for a science project that lands her in auditions for the school play (the last place she wants to be).	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.	Trudge: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse Shawn Chesser. 62000 words. Approximately 250 pages. Cade Grayson finds himself separated from his wife and daughter during a viral outbreak; between them are 3000 miles and millions of infected. Cade must form alliances and rely on his military training to run the gauntlet of undead, as well as the living.
The Deepest Cut (a MacKinnon Curse novel, Book 1) J.A. Templeton. Sixteen-year-old Riley Williams has been able to see ghosts since the car crash that took her mother's life and shattered her family. Guilt-ridden over the belief that she's somehow responsible for her mom's death, Riley is desperate to see her mother's elusive spirit to gain her forgiveness.	Girl Enchanted (The Girl Trilogy) Reussie Miliardario. Enter a world of enchantment, fantasy, and danger. - Cordellia is in love with a shape shifting bad boy. Her life is intensely romantic and intensely dangerous. She will do anything for her true love--"He is me.	The Zmora Carol Knee-Omant. Levi Puskaric is an ordinary sixteen year old kid. He has a best friend, James; parents, a little sister and a weird Polish grandmother who walks around the house chanting, dressed in black and making signs to ward off evil.

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Phantom Dead Rosemarie Naramore. Moving is never easy, but when Jen and James’ father accepts a position as principal at Wellingsly Academy, Jen in particular, isn’t pleased. Easygoing James takes the move in stride, but both kids are suspicious when they learn their mother had attended the boarding school.

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.

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.

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales / With an Introduction by Lemony Snicket Chris Van Allsburg. An inspired collection of short stories by an all-star cast of best-selling storytellers based on the thought-provoking illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. For more than twenty-five years, the illustrations in the extraordinary Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg have intrigued and entertained readers of all ages.

Reveal (Cryptid Tales) Brina Courtney. High school senior Shay Tafford leads a less than normal life. Hiding her ability to speak to ghosts from her family and friends is one thing, but discovering there's a beautiful boy named Hugh who has the same gift is an entirely different problem; especially when she's been crushing on him for weeks.

Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story Mary Downing Hahn. Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their younger stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard.

The Blacker House Nicole Mulloy. Inspired by true events! Sixteen-year-old Kate is shocked when she must suddenly move across the country to Huntington, West Virginia, leaving behind her college-aged boyfriend, Jacob. Dazed and angry, Kate nevertheless tries to find her place in a new school and a new home, a beautiful but eerie southern mansion.

Deep and Dark and Dangerous Mary Downing Hahn. A chilling supernatural tale! - Just before summer begins, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph. She recognizes the two children. One’s her mother, the other her aunt Dulciebut who is the third person, the one who’s been torn out of the picture? Ali will have all summer to figure it out, since she’s spending the summer with her aunt and her cousin in the same house her mom and aunt used to visit when they were kids.

The Shadowing: Hunted Adam Slater. Its head was a mass of wet, gleaming veins and cartilage, muscle and teeth - a face without skin or form. The creature held Callum's gaze with its unblinking eyes. And then the hideous face changed. Every hundred years the gateway opens between their world and ours.

Classic Goosebumps #1: Night of the Living Dummy R.L. Stine. Something scary is happening in GOOSEBUMPS HORRORLAND, the all-new, all-terrifying series by R. L. Stine. Just how scary? You'll never know unless you crack open this classic prequel! - Discover the fan-favorite thriller and chiller that first introduced the world to the wooden face of fear.

Demon's Death (A Short Story) Kendra J. Allen. Waking her was easy. She opened her eyes the very second that I whispered to her. She was not scared that I was in her room and she did not seem to be alarmed that I was a stranger. She just sat up on the side of her bed and looked at me with sleepy eyes.

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall Mary Downing Hahn. When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside.

Magic Tree House #30: Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) Mary Pope Osborne. The intrepid Jack and Annie are summoned once again to the fantasy realm of Camelot. There, Merlin the Magician tells them that the Stone of Destiny has been stolen. The answer to its disappearance lies within a haunted castle.

Super Zombie Juice Mega Bomb MJA Ware. When life gives you lemons, kill zombies -- turns out lemon juice neutralizes the undead. After a failed attempt at running away, best friends Nathan and Misty return home expecting to face angry parents.