Horrific Tales

Scary Stories for 6th – 8th Graders: NOT for the faint of heart!
(Really… We warned you!…)

J/F/BUCKINGHAM
Buckingham, Royce - Demonkeeper
Nat Grimlock is an apprentice Demonkeeper, responsible for the care and feeding of the demons that live in his basement. While Nat is out on his first date, the most dangerous demon escapes and Nat must recover the beast before it terrorizes the city. 216p.

J/F/DELANEY
Delaney, Joseph - The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
After the twenty-nine previous apprentices have each fled or died, Tom agrees to become the newest apprentice to the village Spook, and makes a blunder that unleashes the wrath of a powerful and bloodthirsty witch. 344p.

J/F/DUNCAN
Duncan, Lois - Down a Dark Hall
Kit arrives at her new boarding school, Blackwood School for Girls, and immediately senses that evil lurks within its walls, both for her and the other students. 181p.

J/F/GAIMAN
Gaiman, Neil - Coraline
Coraline wanders through a mysterious door in her family's new apartment and finds herself in an alternate world inhabited by a gruesome "Other Mother" who is intent on keeping her on this strange, haunted side of the door. 162p.

J/F/HAHN
Hahn, Mary Downing - Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Ali is spending the summer at the family's vacation home, where she finds an old picture of her mother, her aunt and a third person who's been torn out of the picture. She realizes that she's stumbled onto a secret that her family has been hiding for over thirty years. 187p.

J/F/HOROWTIZ
Horowitz, Anthony - Raven's Gate
While living in a remote English village, Matt uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft, an ancient stone circle and the Old Ones—powerful evil forces trying to return to rule the world. 254p. The Gatekeepers series continues with Evil Star and Nightrise.

J/F/LANDY
Landy, Derek - Skulduggery Pleasant
A skeleton-detective named Skulduggery Pleasant shows up and offers to help Stephanie fight off the Faceless Ones, ancient evil creatures who are after the powerful Scepter of the Ancients. 392p.

J/F/LOREY
Lorey, Dean - Nightmare Academy
Charlie's nightmares are very real and, through his dream, his nightmare monsters can pass through an open portal into our world. Luckily, he's able to enroll in Nightmare Academy, a school that will train him to fight the monsters from his dreams. 311p.

J/F/MCNISH
McNish, Cliff - Breathe: A Ghost Story
Jack and his mom move into an old farmhouse that is also inhabited by the tortured spirits of four children and a Ghost Mother who has enslaved the ghost children. Can Jack use his gift of second sight to help to save the souls of these dead children? 261p.

J/F/NANCE
Nance, Andrew - Daemon Hall
Famous horror writer Ian Tremblin is holding a scary story writing contest and the five students who are selected as finalists will be invited to spend the night with him in a haunted mansion. No cell phones or flashlights allowed—and contestants who don't make it through the night will be disqualified. 259p.

J/F/NAYLOR
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds - Jade Green
Recently orphaned Judith is moving into her uncle's home, an old, dark house that is rumored to be haunted. Her uncle's only condition is that she bring nothing into the house that is the color green. But surely that doesn't mean the picture frame that holds the only picture of her dead mother? 168p.

J/F/NIX
Nix, Garth - Mister Monday
Arthur finds a key which leads him into a strange, alternate world where the sinister Mister Monday will do anything to get the key back. 361p. The Keys to the Kingdom series continues with book 2, Grim Tuesday.

J/F/NIXON
Nixon, Joan Lowery - Nightmare
At Camp Excel, an experimental camp for underachievers, Emily realizes that the camp seems eerily similar to the terrifying nightmares she's had for years. And someone at Camp Excel will do anything to keep her from discovering the truth about her dreams. 166p.

J/F/REES
Rees, Douglas - Vampire High
After flunking out of the local public high school, Cody has two choices: attend either Our Lady of Perpetual Homework or the Vlad Dracul Magnet School. He picks Dracul Magnet, where the other students are all ghostly pale and have a taste for blood. 226p.

J/F/REISS
Reiss, Kathryn - Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge
Zibby feels strangely compelled to buy an antique dollhouse, but soon discovers that it is haunted by the cruel ghost of Miss Honeywell, the governess of the dollhouse's original owner. 435p.

J/F/RICHARDS
Richards, Justin - The Death Collector
A pickpocket, a curator from the British Museum, and a preacher's daughter match wits with a brilliant madman who is trying to reanimate the dead by using human corpses and dinosaurs. 320p.

J/F/RUBY
Ruby, Laura - Lily's Ghosts
Lily is spending the summer at a creepy house that's crawling with disgruntled ghosts. To avoid being haunted by this unpleasant bunch of phantoms, Lily must solve the mystery of a 50-year old death in the family. 258p.

J/F/SEDGWICK
Sedgwick, Marcus - The Book of Dead Days
The powerful magician Valerian made a deal with a powerful demon fifteen years ago. Now his time is running out, and he must give up his soul unless he can find The Book of Dead Days which holds the secret of how to escape his fate. 273p.

J/F/SHAN
Shan, Darren - Cirque Du Freak
Darren and his friends sneak into the Cirque Du Freak traveling freak show where they are introduced to the dark and bloody world of vampires. 266p. The Cirque Du Freak series continues with book 2, The Vampire's Assistant.

J/F/STINE
Stine, R.L. - Dangerous Girls
While working as counselors at a summer camp, twins Livvy and Destiny encounter a handsome young man who wants to suck their blood. 247p. The Dangerous Girls series continues with book 2, Dangerous Girls: The Taste of Night.

J/F/VANDE VELDE
Vande Velde, Vivian - Now You See It…
When her regular glasses break, Wendy tries out the dorky sunglasses she finds on her lawn. But these glasses do more than correct her vision—they allow her to see elves, witches, crones and corpses! 275p.

J/F/WESTERFELD
Westerfeld, Scott - The Secret Hour
Jessica learns that she is one of a group of teens who have special abilities that help them fight the ancient and deadly creatures living in a secret hour hidden at midnight. 297p.

J/F/ZINDEL
Zindel, Paul - Raptor
Zach and his father are on a dinosaur dig when they make a horrifying discovery—a band of raptors has escaped extinction, and Zach finds himself trapped in a cave with a deadly Utahraptor. 170p.

Prepared by Sara Pemberton, October 2007