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Planet of the Lawn Gnomes

R.L. Stine · 142 pages

Jay Gardener can't seem to stay out of trouble. Even after a fresh start in a new neighborhood, he keeps finding himself in bad situations. But it's not his fault! Jay wants to be a good kid, he really does, it's just these strange things keep happening to him. What kind of a place did his family move to? And why does every house have so many lawn gnomes in their yard? Jay better learn quickly tha

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The Wooden Mile

Chris Mould · 192 pages

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The Monster's Ring

Bruce Coville · 105 pages

A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.

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Cirque Du Freak

Darren Shan · 266 pages

As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.

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The Curse of the Blue Figurine

John Bellairs · 200 pages

Johnny Dixon doesn't believe that the ghost of mad Father Baart haunts the town church. But then he takes an old scroll and a seemingly harmless figurine from the church basement, accepts a magic ring from a mysterious stranger--and is plunged into a terrifying adventure that may cost him his life.

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The School Is Alive!

Jack Chabert · 90 pages

Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students, and,as hall monitor, it is his job to protect them--but he will need some help from his friends. Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students. As hall monitor, it is his job to protect them, but he will need some help from his friends. Book #1

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The Book of Dead Days

Marcus Sedgwick · 273 pages

With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil.

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The Black Book of Secrets

F.E. Higgins · 309 pages

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Fang of the Vampire

Tommy Donbavand · 150 pages

In Scream Street, Luke and his parents discover a nightmarish world of the undead. Luke soon makes friends with vampire Resus Negative and mummy Cleo Farr, but he remains determined to take his terrified parents home. After liberating the powerful book Tales of Scream Street from his new landlord, Otto Sneer, Luke learns that the founding fathers of the community each left behind a powerful relic.

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The Fearsome Foursome

Amicus Arcane · 255 pages

Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: Tales from the Haunted Mansion! Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With two-color illustrations throughout and a beautiful three-piece cloth cover, the books are designed to look like they came straight from the library in the Haunted

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Phantom Road Volume 1

Jeff Lemire · 132 pages

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The Secret Path

Christopher Pike · 128 pages

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Nightmares!

Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller · 368 pages

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Truth or Dare

P.J. Night

When Abby Miller confesses her crush on Jake during a game of Truth or Dare and then receives a text message warning her to stay away from him, she starts suspecting that her stalker is a ghost, and not a jealous classmate.

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Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic

Jason Segel · 360 pages

"Twelve-year-old Charlie and his friends must find out why their neighboring town has become overrun with sleepwalkers before what's going around reaches them and it's too late"--

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Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction

Mike Mignola, John Byrne · 128 pages

When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. Sent to investigate a mystery with supernatural overtones, Hellboy discovers the secrets of his own origins, and his link to the Nazi occultists who promised Hitler a final solution in the form of a demonic avatar. " ... Hellboy is a brilliant example of how to elevate the comic of the future to a higher literar

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The Gates

John Connolly · 300 pages

Young Samuel Johnson witnesses strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. Can one small boy defeat evil and save the world as we know it?

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Serafina and the Black Cloak

Robert Beatty · 293 pages

In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.

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The Gathering

Dan Poblocki · 219 pages

Some houses are more than just haunted . . . they're hungry. Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don't know this at first. They each think they've been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there's nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing--and nobody--can be trusted. Hallways move. Doors vanish. Ghosts appear. Children disappear.

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The Last Kids on Earth

Max Brallier · 240 pages

225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm650L Lexile; 650L Lexile

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The Zombie Chasers

John Kloepfer

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Attack of the Fiend

Joseph Delaney · 546 pages

When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.

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Hide and Shriek

R.L. Stine, Emily James · 127 pages

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