If You Want to Scare Yourself:
Scary Stories for Older 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.

• Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World
  Arielle North Olson, Howard Schwartz (j398.27 Ask)
• The Beasties
  * William Sleator (jF SLea)
• In a Creepy, Creepy place and Other Scary Stories
  *Judith Gorog (jF Goro)
• The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
  pat McKissack (jF McKi)
• The Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit World
  Virginia Hamilton (j398 Hami)
• The Dollhouse Murders
  * Betty Ren Wright (jF Wrig)
• Don't Give Up the Ghost
  David Gale (jF Dont)
• The Ghost in the Mirror
  * John Bellairs (jF BeLL)
• The Ghosts of War
  * Daniel Cohen (jF Cohe)
• The Haunting
  Margaret Mahy (jF Mahy)
• If You Want to Scare Yourself
  * Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (jF Somm)
• Kit's Wilderness
  David Almond (jF ALmo)
• Never Trust a Dead Man
  * Vivian Vande Velde (jF Vand)
• Nightmares: poems to Trouble Your Sleep
  * Jack prelutsky (j821 preL)
• Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones
  * Alvin Schwartz (j398.21 Schw)
• Seven Strange & Ghostly Tales
  Brian Jacques (jF Jacq)
• Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales
  Robert D. San Souci (j398 SanS)
• Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts
  Avi (jF Avi)
• Summer of Fear
  * Lois Duncan (jF Dunc)
• The Trial of Anna Cotman
  * Vivien Alcock (jF ALco)
• Vampires: A Collection of Original Stories
  * Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg (jF Vamp)
• The View from the Cherry Tree
  * Willo Davis Roberts (jF Robe)
• Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
  * Mary Downing Hahn (jF Hahn)
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
  *Bill Brittain (jF Brit)
• The Witches
  * Roald Dahl (jF DahL)