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Harry Potter Boxset

J.K. Rowling

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Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews · 352 pages

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Year of the Witching

Alexis Henderson · 344 pages

Folk HorrorWitches & WitchcraftHorrorDark
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A Hat Full of Sky

Terry Pratchett · 352 pages

Something is coming after Tiffany ...Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this!What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six

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The Vampire's Assistant

Darren Shan · 256 pages

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The Forest Demands Its Due

Kosoko Jackson · 432 pages

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Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints

Cullen Bunn · 152 pages

Young Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters -- the countless haints of Harrow County. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures -- and to the land itself -- in ways she never could have imagined.

Folk HorrorWitches & WitchcraftTeen ProtagonistHorror
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Alvin Schwartz · 111 pages

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.

Folk HorrorCreature FeatureHorrorMiddle Grade
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The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher · 385 pages

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Twilight Eyes

Dean Koontz · 471 pages

Sought by police for murder, slim Mackenzie, a young man both blessed and cursed by "twilight eyes," stalks the diabolical "Others," who feed their twisted needs with human suffering.

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Anna Dressed in Blood

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.

Witches & WitchcraftTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistHorror
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The Changeling

Victor LaValle · 448 pages

"The wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly committed an unforgivable act of violence, from the award-winning author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine"-- "Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improba

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The Monstrumologist

Rick Yancey · 441 pages

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

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The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost

John Bellairs · 147 pages

Collapsed in a weird trance, Johnny Dixon is dying. Professor Childermass and Fergie soon learn the horrifying reason: Johnny is possessed by the spirit of the evil Warren Windrow. In a desperate effort to find a clue that will save Johnny's life, the professor and Fergie race to the gloomy Windrow estate. But demonic forces are waiting for them, and suddenly they're fighting for their own lives.

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Uprooted

Naomi Novik · 438 pages

"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that's not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he's still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of use every t

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Dark Hollow

Brian Keene · 384 pages

Strange things are happening in the rural community of LeHorn's Hollow. Women are disappearing overnight, mysterious fires are seen in the woods, and eerie piping music is heard. The ancient god Pan has been summoned to Earth!

Folk HorrorCreature FeatureHorrorDark
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Christine

Stephen King · 503 pages

A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly.

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Perdido Street Station

China Mieville · 710 pages

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory

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Hollow City

Ransom Riggs · 399 pages

In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.

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Hellboy, Vol. 10: The Crooked Man and Others

Mike Mignola, Joshua Dysart · 160 pages

Collects four Hellboy stories, including one where he teams with a wandering hillman in a tale of Appalachian witchcraft.

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Hellboy Library Edition, Volume 4: The Crooked Man and the Troll Witch

Mike Mignola, Richard Corben · 312 pages

The oversized Hellboy Library hardcover series continues, featuring Mike Mignola and Richard Corben’s award-winning Crooked Man story! Hellboy has racked up multiple Eisner Awards, numerous spinoffs, a novel line, video games, cartoons, and two feature films. Hellboy Library Volume 4 collects two complete trade-paperbacks full of short stories: The Troll Witch and Other Stories and The Crooked Ma

Folk HorrorWitches & WitchcraftHorrorFantasy
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Lamplighter

D.M. Cornish · 711 pages

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The Ruins of Gorlan

John Flanagan · 249 pages

They have always scared him in the past--the Rangers, with their dark cloaksand shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Ranger's apprentice. What he doesn't yet realize is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. Highly trained in the skills of ba

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Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 176 pages

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Witches & WitchcraftHorrorTense and SuspensefulMiddle Grade

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