Boo! Do you like to be scared, but just a little bit? These semi-scary stories are for younger children, mostly in picture book format.
Some mice venture into the dark, dark woods where they find a dark brown house leading past other dark colors to a spooky surprise.
Upon realizing that she has stayed at her friend's house longer than she should have, Sarah decides to sneak home rather than call her father and finds herself in a night filled with hairy, scary animals.
Banished from the town for making mischief, a little boy and his father are welcomed back when they find away to make the dreaded giant Abiyoyo disappear. Also look for Abiyoyo Returns.
A hungry monster seeks a different kind of bedtime snack.
Charlie and Lola
Charlie and Lola have fun on Halloween!
Susie and Harry find some spooky surprises when they tiptoe outside in the middle of the night.
Two famous monsters' pets give their views of life with their masters.
An imp, a goblin, a scalawag, and a boy tell each other scary stories.
Three skeletons--a grownup, a child, and a dog--take a walk at night through a dark town.
Scary incidents at midnight give Biff the dog and his master a fright, but all can be explained.
A young boy and his father investigate their neighbors' reports of ghosts on a nearby farm.
Die-cut pages allow readers to manipulate a monster's features.
A little goblin has a series of frightening experiences while walking through the woods to his grandmother's house.
No one will help Granny find out what's making the noise under her bed.
When Harry goes to the cellar to search for his mother, he confronts the terrible two-headed Whatzit.
A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.
During her nighttime journey to the henhouse Hilda Hen finds unexpected courage within herself as she tiptoes past a snake, runs from a fox, and swims a lake.
A two-headed troll goes on a rampage through the countryside.
As the gravedigger tells his wife how a band of cats marched into the cemetery, their own cat, listens with a strange intensity.
Little witch sitting alone at her spinning wheel hears a knock at her door, but the various body parts that enter are not much company.
Many scary creatures knock on the door and ask to be let in, but the door only opens for Daddy.
Can Nick trust his mother's word that there are no goblins and such lurking in the night?
The gargoyles that adorn the walls of a museum come to life and frighten the night watchman.
Black and white illustrations narrate this spooky walk through the woods.
A witch goes around to her fiendish friends -- from two cats to ten werewolves -- to gather the ingredients to make gruesome stew for her party.
Gritch the witch flies to a farm for some pigs to make a piggie pie, but when she arrives she can't find a single porker.
An illustrated collection of spooky stories, poems, and riddles. Compiled and illustrated by Marc Brown.
A collection of not so scary stories for early readers.
One by one, three bears have second thoughts about exploring inside a spooky old tree.
Two people get carried away making stew and turn into witches.
A toy skeleton at Halloween provides menace and mystery.
Explains how to recognize a haunted book, and what to do when one finds one.
An old mouse agrees to show three young mice the "monster" at the top of stairs.
The ghost of a farmer haunts his widow's house after a dog takes one of his bones on a long journey.
Walking down a dark road one night, a brother and sister argue over who is afraid of the dread Ghost-Eye tree.
When their bus breaks down, a group of unusual creatures must spend the night in a deserted house where everything seems very frightening--until the following morning.
A girl lost in the woods wanders into a haunted house, where she disappoints the monsters and other inhabitants because she refuses to be frightened of them.
Our heroine must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods.
As a boy's pouch fills with treasure from the wilderness, he hears behind him strange sounds that get louder and louder. Could it be the dreaded Night Walker? Or, has his imagination carried him too far?
In a dark house, Andrew gets scared while reading a spooky book in which a girl is reading a spooky book in a scary house.
A strange varmint haunts the woodsman who lopped off its tail.
A teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in a churchyard and puts it away in her cupboard before going to sleep.
A witch's worn-out broom serves a widow well, until her neighbors decide the thing is wicked and dangerous.
The Witch's Hat
(Juvenile Picture Books - Ej Jo)
A witch's hat causes its owner some problems when it turns into a bat, a rat, a cat, and still won't behave after that.
A boy who is certain that his house is filled with monsters takes a karate class in order to vanquish them.
Simon is sure there are monsters under his bed in the night--he can even hear them breathing.
A child believes that there is a nightmare hiding in his bedroom closet but no one takes him seriously.
Convinced there is something making noise in the attic at night, a brave little girl sneaks up the stairs, lasso in hand, to capture it.
A not-too-scary ghost tells six short stories.
A little mouse and a little person meet while getting a snack at bedtime and scare each other.
The narrator is frightened by a pair of pale green pants with no one inside that seems to be following him, until the two meet and discover that they have nothing to fear. Features illustrations that glow in the dark.
Grandpa tells his two young houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was scared at bedtime.
The classic story of a little boy, sent to bed without his supper, who sails to the land of the wild things.
Dixie Lee brings home an alligator, a snake, and an owl as pets to protect her family from such spooky creatures as the churn-turners, the bogeyman, and the mist-sisters.