Monday, October 20, 2025

Spine Chilling Tales for Teens

Get in the mood for Halloween with these Spine Chilling Tales for teens.  Here's a few of our favorites . . .

On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming
In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

Last Halloween, v.1: Children by Abby Howard
In a gothic adventure at the end of the world, a ten-year-old girl and a motley crew of ghouls must stop an invading horde of monsters on a fateful Halloween night.


More Books --
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Dead Upon a Time by Elizabeth Paulson
The Fade by Demitria Lunetta
Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons
The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco
Horrid by Katrina Leno
Horror Hotel by Victoria Fulton
The House of Dead Maids by Clare B. Dunkle
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves
The Voice Upstairs by Laura E. Weymouth

Monday, October 6, 2025

Creepy Cryptids and Other Mysteries

Kids love to read about cryptids and other unsolved mysteries.  So this week, we're sharing some informational books on various cryptids and other creepy mysteries. 

Area 51, Lizard People, and More Conspiracy Theories About the Unexplained by Jose Cruz
Did an alien spacecraft crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947? Is the U.S. government hiding alien secrets at Area 51? Could lizard people be in positions of power around the world? Get details about different conspiracy theories to find out why people believe them and what experts say. 

Inside the Bermuda Triangle by Megan Harder
Disappearances and other strange phenomena in the Bermuda Triangle have long inspired speculation and theories. Theorists chalk it up to everything from bad weather to time warps. Explore this mysterious history.

The Magnificent Book of Monsters by Diana Ferguson
From the man-eating Manticore and the dastardly demon Beelzebub to the corpse-munching Aztec goddess Coatlicue and the southern African tokoloshe, monsters from across the globe and many different cultures are brought to life in this large-format volume bursting with detailed full-color images and fascinating facts.


More Books:
Behind the Legend: The Loch Ness Monster by Erin Peabody
Chasing the Chupacabra by Anna Anderhagen
Crop Circles by Kyla Steinkraus
Encountering Chupacabra and Other Cryptids by Megan Cooley Peterson
Mysterious Disappearances by Louise Spilsbury
Mythical Monsters by Jen Breach
Sea Serpents by Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Vampires by Xina M. Uhl
What Do We Know About Yeti? by Ben Hubbard
The Young Investigator's Guide to Ancient Aliens by The History Channel