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October 30, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Haunted Readings: All Our Scary, Spooky and Otherwise Halloween Ready Book Lists in One Place

October 30, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS   4 comments

Whether you are looking for twisted fairy tales, ghosts or more, we’ve got some great reads for you!
Read if you dare.

Alice in Wonderland retellings

Aliens: They’re Here: Science Fiction with actual aliens

Apocalypse Survival Tips from YA Lit

Assasins: Teenage Assassins in YA Lit

Beyond the Grave: dead narrators

Bioengineering (Frankenstein 2012: YA lit with bioengineering)

Death and Dying: Sometimes it is among the dying that we remember to truly live 

Dragons

Dystopias

Egypt: Read About Your “Mummy” (and Egypt)

Epidemics list 1 and list 2

Environment: Earth Day Dystopias

Fairy Tales (twisted, of course) and Cinderella Retellings

Graveyards: Someone Just Walked Over My Grave: YA lit with graveyards

Haunted Tales

Horror: The Stories that Haunt our Childhood: Local legends and superstitions in YA lit, Horrifying Reads for October (recommended by teens)

Poe, inspired by

Myths and Mythology 

Reapers (and Necromancers) in YA Lit

Serial Killers: I Eat Cereal, but I am NOT a Serial Killer – serial killers in YA lit

Supernatural and Psychological Creepers

Under the Sea: Mermaids

Vampires  and Non-emo Vampires

Witches

Zombies

https://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2020/07/book-reviews-thrillers-edition-little-creeping-things-and-nobody-knows-but-you/

Filed under: Book Lists, Fairy Tales, Halloween, Horror, Reader's Advisory, Scary, Thrillers

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About Karen Jensen, MLS

Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).

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Comments

  1. Dina says

    October 30, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    Thank you for putting all of these lists in one place. Love discovering new books (not that I need to with my towering TBR stack.)

  2. Janine Hays says

    October 30, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    This list is awesome!! Thank you so much for putting it together!

  3. Victoria Scott says

    October 30, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    My typewriter!

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