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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.	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.	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 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.	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.	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.
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.	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.	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.
Vampire Wake (The Kiera Hudson Series One (Book Two)) Tim O'Rourke. Since escaping from the Ragged Cove and finding herself suspended from the Force, Kiera Hudson is hired by the mysterious Lady Hunt to protect her sixteen-year-old daughter Kayla, from the stranger who lurks on the moors.	Skeleton in my Closet (Shadow Zone) J.R. Black. Warning! This is your last chance! Too late! You stepped into the SHADOW ZONE…. - The Shadow Zone can be anywhere. Next door. At school. Even in your own bedroom. It’s the place where the everyday world meets the eerie domain of vampires, werewolves, and ghouls… - Skeleton in My Closet - Bones that go bump in the night… - Matt and Riley Becker think they’re imagining those scratching sounds behind the walls.	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.
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.	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.	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.

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Percival Strange (Strange Tales # 1) James Somers. The Realm of Imagined Worlds requires a new Master Caretaker to guard the mysterious leading to our world. Percival Strange becomes an unfortunate candidate when he and his friend, Violet, stumble upon the sinister Lonely Manor inhabited by the current Caretakers.

Blood Beneath the Water Fiona Sinclair. The quiet town of Summerville hides a dark secret. A secret kept so well, for so long, that no one alive remembers the horrific deaths of a group of cultists two centuries in the past. All the townsfolk know is that Lake Oberong should be avoided, and with good reason.

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.

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.

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.

Deception V.A.M.P.S.~ATL. (The Young Immortals ~ A Southern Gothic Trilogy) (Book One) Khloe Kamalis. Seventeen year old Savannah Little Eagle McLeod vanishes during a gig with her band mates, V. A. M. P. S. ~ ATL, right before they go onstage at The Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia. All that's found of Savannah is her bloodied dress and slashed silicone wristbands wadded up in the back of the band van.

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.

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.

Snapdragon Alley (Dragon City Trilogy) Tom Lichtenberg. Ten year old friends Alex and Sapphire discover something strange on the city bus map – a street that existed for only one year. As they set out to solve the mystery, they encounter the possibility of another world, another dimension perhaps, lurking in a vacant lot, but they are not the only ones on the trail.

The Ghost in Me Shaunda Kennedy Wenger. WHO GETS THE GUY? The girl, or the ghost? - 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).

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.

The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story Mary Downing Hahn. When Ashley discovers a turn-of-the-century doll it is just the first of several puzzling events that lead her through the hedge and into a twilight past where she meets Louise, an ailing child whose beloved doll has mysteriously disappeared.

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.

The Half Dead Kristina Andersen. Mandy Jackson is 15 years old. From a poor housing estate near London, her life changes when she is awarded a scholarship to attend Eastlake School, a nearby private girls’ school. There she has to deal with wealthy girls who never waste an opportunity to humiliate her.

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.