If You Want to Scare Yourself: Scary Stories for Younger Readers

This booklist compiled by the children's librarians at the San Francisco Public Library, June 2000. The books listed are a sampling of the titles available. Ask your Children’s Librarian for further suggestions, and tell us which are your favorites.

• The Adventures of Isabel
  Ogden Nash (jPS Nash)
• The Amazing Bone
  William Steig (jPS Stei)
• The Boy and the Ghost
  * Robert D. San Souci (j398 SanS)
• Bony-Legs
  Joanna Cole (jR CoLe)
• Clay Boy
  Mirra Ginsburg (jPS Gins)
• A Creepy Countdown
  Charlotte S. Huck (jPS Huck )
• A Dark Dark Tale
  Ruth Brown (jPS Brow)
• Diane Goode's Book of Scary Stories & Songs
  (jF Dian )
• Eek! Stories to Make You Shriek
  *Jane O'Connor (jR OCon)
• The Gargoyle on the Roof
  *Jack Prelutsky (j811.54 PreL)
• The Ghost-Eye Tree
  * Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault (jPS Mart)
• The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe
  Tony Johnston (jPS John)
• The Ghost of Sifty-Sifty Sam
  Angela Shelf Medearis (jPS Mede)
• The House that Drac Built
  Judy Sierra (jPS Sier)
• In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
  * Alvin Schwartz (jR Schw)
• The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
  Linda Williams (jPS WiLL)
• Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
  Ed Young (j398 Youn, j398.2095 Youn)
• Lucy Dove
  Janice Del Negro (jPS DeLN)
• Making Friends with Frankenstein
  Colin McNaughton (j821.914 MacN)
• Mr. & Mrs. Pig's Evening Out
  Mary Rayner (jPS Rayn)
• The Scary Book
  Joanna Cole (j808.8 Scar, j398.2 Scar)
• The Tailypo: A Ghost Story
  Joanna Galdone (j398 GaLd)
• There's a Nightmare in My Closet
  * Mercer Mayer (jPS Maye)
• Velcome
  Kevin O'Malley (jPS OMaL)
• What's Under My Bed?
  * James Stevenson (jPS Stev)
• Wiley and the Hairy Man
  Molly Bang (jR Bang)
  Judy Sierra (j398.2089 Sier)