Scary Reads – for Me and the Middle School Crowd

Calling all 'fraidy cats!  I know it's October, traditionally the time when people cuddle up under warm blankets to watch scary movies, read scary books and dress up in scary costumes. If you scare easily, like me, then you know it can also be an unnerving time. Just thinking about some of those gory movies is starting to scare me as I type this.

Fortunately for all the easy-to-scare folks out there, you can enjoy some of the same spooky characters – living dolls, walking skeletons, gorgons and other creepy things you can't identify going bump in the night – that will scare you silly without scaring the daylights out of you.

Why has Charlie Laird given up sleeping? Nightmares! Unfortunately for Charlie, his nightmares aren't the usual kind. The witch looks like his new stepmother and President Fear looks like his principal. What if Charlie's right and his nightmares are real?

Nightmares! is available in multiple formats.

Molly and Kip are looking for work at the only place that will take children traveling alone – the Windsor Estate in the sourwoods. No one knows what lurks in the sourwoods. Could it be The Night Gardener? Molly and Kip will find out soon, and it is as sinister as you would expect.

The Night Gardener is available in multiple formats.

For a speedy scare, open to any page of Half-minute Horrors. Authors like Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos and Lemony Snicket give you extremely short stories to open your imagination to scary possibilities.  Beware!

 Half-Minute Horrors is available in multiple formats.

Or try one of my other favorite creepy reads. What's your favorite scary book?