Favourite horror books for older children
Looking for things that go bump in the night and give you a shiver down the spine? You've come to the right place...
These books are perfectly scary for older children but not quite as scary as our teen booklist.
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Tales From Weird Street
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Tales From Weird Street
Interspersed with black-and-white illustrations to complement the super readable text, this masterclass in storytelling from a dis…
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The Witches
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The Witches
Real witches disguise themselves as lovely ladies, when secretly they want to squish and squelch all the wretched children they de…
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Shiver Point
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Shiver Point
A short, snappy rollercoaster of a horror story with a skilful build-up of tension from ‘This sleepy town is so bland, nothing eve…
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Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull
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Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull
Mallory Vayle makes a bizarre pact with a 500-year-old skull: help to free her parents’ ghosts from an evil spirit in exchange for…
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The Front Room
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The Front Room
Hannah and her brother Benjy are on holiday. But instead of relaxing, Hannah is terrified: convinced there's something dreadful in…
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Midnight Treasure
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Midnight Treasure
A young werewolf who has been adopted by a vampire is chosen to go on a quest for the Midnight Treasure. Scary and funny.
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Shadowhall Academy: The Whispering Walls
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Shadowhall Academy: The Whispering Walls
Set in a 1980s boarding school, a clever plot takes the atmosphere in this tense ghost story from intriguing to quite creepy then …
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Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase
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Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase
Best known for his sarcastic djinni creation Bartimaeus, Stroud returns with an equally engaging new series, this time following a…
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Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
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Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
The nine tales are contained within an other tale, each as delightfully horrible as the next, and perfect for dark winter nights, …
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Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy
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Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy
Strange things are happening in the town of Sticky Pines: odd lights in the sky, people disappearing, and now a huge, hairy creatu…
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Dread Wood
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Dread Wood
As the fear and dread build up in this tense thriller, a group of misfits is forced to work as a team to defeat the most terrifyin…
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The Invasion of Crooked Oak
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The Invasion of Crooked Oak
When Nancy mentions that her mum and dad are acting strangely, her friends Pete and Krish are keen to find out more - especially a…
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The Devil Walks
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The Devil Walks
A chilling, compulsive horror story pleasantly free from vampires and werewolves
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Birth of a Killer
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Birth of a Killer
Birth of a Killer is the first book in a new series that form a prequel to the best-selling sequence The Saga of Darren Shan.
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The Stuff of Nightmares
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The Stuff of Nightmares
Kyle is the only one conscious after an horrific train crash, but how long can he survive when death is stalking the car…
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Trollhunters
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Trollhunters
This black comedy has a highly visual, cinematic feel. It is wildly imaginative and rich in description, comedy gore and elaborate…
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The Haunting of Aveline Jones
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The Haunting of Aveline Jones
When Aveline finds a book about local ghosts in a second-hand bookshop, she is intrigued to learn that it once belonged to 11-year…
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Death or Ice Cream?
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Death or Ice Cream?
Larkin Mills is no ordinary town. It's a place of contradictions and enigma, of secrets and mysteries. A place with an exquisite i…
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