A Cauldron of Haunting Tales

In this dark and creepy novel, a young girl finds a door to another world that is strangely like her own — but filled with danger.

Yadriel is determined to prove to his family that he's a brujo. When he accidentally summons the ghost of classmate Julian Diaz, the two boys investigate a series of strange disappearances.

When best friends Lucely and Syd accidentally summon evil spirits to their town, they must figure out a way to reverse the spell and defeat the spirits.

In this classic horror novel, four people experience supernatural phenomena when they stay at a mysterious mansion.

This spooky novel tells the story of Bod, a young boy who is raised in a cemetery by ghosts after his parents are murdered.

Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes for the attention of Katrina Van Tassel while being menaced by a local legend—a headless horseman who haunts the outskirts of town. Read the etexthere.

Aster is forbidden from learning magic because he is a boy, but when a sinister creature threatens his world, performing magic may be the only way he can save his family and friends. Learn these words from the bewitching graphic novel by Molly Knox Ostertag.

In this classic horror novel, Jack Torrance takes a job as a caretaker at the Overlook Hotel, where he and his family are tormented by the hotel's haunting influence.

Alex hates being a bruja, a witch — but when her family disappears, she must embrace her powers in order to save them.

The American Civil War ends abruptly when fallen soldiers begin to rise from the dead and attack the living. Like many Native American and African American children, Jane is conscripted into a combat school to learn to fight these so-called "shamblers." But when Jane heads to the West to search for a missing girl, she encounters dangers even more perilous than zombies.

Z, a witch-turned-zombie, and Aysel, a werewolf, befriend one another when they are shunned by members of their community.

Siblings Diana and Georgie are not supposed to talk to strangers or leave the grounds of the house once owned by Lilian Willis. But when a new caretaker moves onto the property, Diana is tempted to break the rules and befriend Lissa, the caretaker's daughter.

As Conor struggles to deal with his mother's terminal illness, he encounters a monster who demands that Conor tell him a truthful story.

Investigate these words from Agatha Christie's masterpiece to figure out why it's the world's best-selling mystery novel.

In this classic novel, Chester the cat is convinced that his family's new pet rabbit is a vampire.

In the first book of The Mortal Instruments series, fifteen-year-old Clary meets the Shadowhunters, a secret group attempting to rid the world of demons.

A vampire makes his way from Transylvania to England to spread his evil curse, but a small team led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing is prepared to fight him. Read the full text here.

When a passenger is murdered on a stalled train, detective Hercule Poirot must investigate which of the other passengers committed the crime.

When her Brooklyn neighborhood is threatened, Sierra must master and protect an ancestral form of magic called shadowshaping.

In this Newbery Award-winning novel, baby Luna is abandoned by her village and raised by the witch Xan. As Luna tries to manage her growing magical powers, she learns about her true origins and joins forces with others to fight the corrupt Council of Elders.

After her mother goes missing, Alice journeys to a dark fairytale world in the hopes of finding her.

When a respected doctor performs a dangerous experiment on himself, he empowers an evil alter ego who wreaks havoc on London.

After learning about witches from his grandmother, a young boy accidentally stumbles into the witches' annual gathering — and decides to take on the Grand High Witch herself.

When Stevie Bell is admitted to the exclusive Ellingham Academy, she hopes to solve the mystery of the famous crimes that took place at the school years ago. But then another murder takes place, and Stevie realizes that her life and the lives of her friends may depend on her sleuthing skills.

When the Tox begins to infect students at the Raxter School for Girls, Hetty attempts to discover the truth about the mysterious illness — and the disappearance of her best friend.

Ellie, a Native American girl with supernatural powers, attempts to solve a family member's murder.

Amari Peters competes for a coveted spot at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs while trying to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance.

In this ghost story, the skeptical and coolheaded Otis family moves into a haunted house.

In this novel that draws on Malaysian folklore, Suraya's grandmother gives her a "pelesit" — a ghost or spirit — named Pink. But Suraya finds it difficult to control Pink's dark side.

Corinne fights to protect her father and her home from the jumbies, mysterious creatures that live in the woods.

Following the death of her father, twelve-year-old Ophelia discovers that she can talk to ghosts and that not all ghosts are as nice as they seem.

While playing a game of hide and seek at their friend Zee's welcome home party, Justin and his friends get pulled into a shadowy world. They have to confront their worst nightmares as they try to escape the Seeker monster and find their way home.

After a deadly car crash, fourteen-year-olds Nick and Allie try to find their purpose as they wander around Everlost, a magical world halfway between life and death.

After moving to a small town in the Midwest, high school track star Marigold discovers that she's living in a haunted house in a new town full of dark secrets.

After wizard Ged Sparrowhawk arrives at the Tombs of Atuan to steal an ancient treasure, he meets Tenar, a young girl who guards the Tombs and knows nothing of the outside world.

High school senior Victoria, accompanied by her next-door neighbor Henry Nakamura, travels to New Orleans to find a vampire who could help her immortalize her dying father.

First appearing after her father's death, the dybbuk is a spirit that eleven-year-old Aviva Jacobs believes is causing trouble within her Jewish neighborhood.

In this sequel to Raybearer, seventeen-year-old Tarisai Kunleo, as the Empress of Aritsar, makes a deal with demons to stop the annual sacrifices of two hundred children.

Saved by a djinni as a child, eighteen-year old Fatima Ghazala has a magical fire within her that vexes a commander named Zulfikar and draws her into royal conflicts in the city of Noor.

Eleven-year-old best friends Iris Rose and Daniel Stone research the mystery of an abandoned graveyard in a small North Carolina town.

Warning: this collection of stories may cause readers ages eight to twelve to scream with both fear and laughter.

In this first book of the series, thirteen-year-old Betty Widdershin, with her sisters Felicity and Charlotte, must figure out how to use their inherited magical objects to reverse an ancient family curse that does not allow them to leave the island of Crowstone.

In this first book of the Samurai Detective series set in 18th-century Japan, Konoike Seikei, a tea merchant’s son dreaming of becoming a noble warrior-poet, helps a judge solve the mystery of a missing jewel.

Named after a long line of men in his family, twelve-year-old Andrew Joseph Tyler visits his ancestral home in Missouri and gets transported back in time.

Needing money for college tuition, seventeen-year-old Jade Nguyen agrees to spend the summer in Vietnam with her father, who is restoring a house that is still under the control of its former French owner.