 | Chillers for Grades 6–8 |
| These scary novels and stories are shelved in Y fiction and nonfiction. | |
Junior High Fiction (Y)
| Almond | Clay |
| August | The August Book of Scary Stories: Spooky Stories for Telling Out Loud (Edited by Parkhurst) |
| Avi | The Seer of Shadows |
| Brewer | Eighth Grade Bites |
| Bruchac | Skeleton Man |
| Bunting | The Presence |
| Compestine | A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales |
| Conrad | Stonewords: A Ghost Story |
| Coville | Oddly Enough |
| Creepy | Creepy Classics: Hair-Raising Horror from the Masters of the Macabre (Edited by Hill) |
| Delaney | Revenge of the Witch |
| Don't | Don't Read This!: And Other Tales of the Unnatural (By Mahy, et al.) |
| Duncan | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Duncan | Summer of Fear |
| Gaiman | Coraline |
| Gaiman | The Graveyard Book |
| Gorog | Please Do Not Touch: A Collection of Stories |
| Gorog | When Nobody's Home: Fifteen Baby-Sitting Tales of Terror |
| Hahn | All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story |
| Hahn | Look For Me by Moonlight |
| Half-Minute | Half-Minute Horrors (Edited by Rich) |
| Hautman | Sweet-blood |
| Horowitz | Horowitz Horror: Stories You'll Wish You'd Never Read |
| Horowitz | Raven's Gate |
| Horror | Horror Stories (Collected by Price and Horse) |
| Jacques | Seven Strange & Ghostly Tales |
| Jennings | Undone!: More Mad Endings |
| Lubar | Invasion of the Road Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales |
| Mazer | A Sliver of Glass and Other Uncommon Tales |
| Nance | Daemon Hall |
| Naylor | Jade Green: A Ghost Story |
| Night | Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow and Substance (Edited by Duncan) |
| Nixon | The Haunting |
| Nixon | Whispers from the Dead |
| Poe | Tales of Terror |
| Priestly | Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror |
| Prince | The House on Hound Hill |
| Pullman | Clockwork, or, All Wound Up |
| Rees | Witch Child |
| Richards | Parliament of Blood |
| Richardson | The Intruders |
| San Souci | Double-Dare to be Scared: Another Thirteen Chilling Tales |
| Scary | Scary Stories (Illustrated by Moser) |
| Sedgwick | The Book of Dead Days |
| Shan | Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare |
| Shan | Lord Loss |
| Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Short | Short Circuits: Thirteen Shocking Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (Edited by Gallo) |
| Shusterman | Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales |
| Shusterman | Red Rider's Hood |
| Sleator | Hell Phone |
| Sleator | The Boy Who Couldn't Die |
| Stevenson | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Stine | Dangerous Girls: A Novel |
| Stine | Nightmare Hour |
| Stoker | Dracula (Abridged version) |
| Taylor | Killer Pizza: A Novel |
| That's | That's Ghosts for You: 13 Scary Stories (Edited by Carus) |
| Vande Velde | All Hallow's Eve: 13 Stories |
| Vande Velde | Being Dead: Stories |
| Young | The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (Compiled by Pepper) |
| Zindel | Loch: A Novel |
| Zindel | The Doom Stone |
Nonfiction, Folktales & Poetry
| Y398.2 Ask | Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World |
| Y398.2 Olson | More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World |
| Y398.2 San Souci | A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery: Thirty Creepy Tales |
| Y398.2 Scary | The Scary Story Reader: Forty-one of the Scariest Stories for Sleepovers, Campfires, Car & Bus Trips-Even for Dates (Collected by Young & Young) |
| Y808.81 Why | Why Am I Grown So Cold?: Poems of the Unknowable (Edited by Livingston) |
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Wilmette Public Library Youth Department
www.wilmettelibrary.info/kids Last Updated 4/10 |