20 Spooky Stories for Fall

Spooky season is officially here! If your readers are anything like those in my life, they're clambering for scary books all year long. Here's some of our favorites to frighten this fall.

Early Reader

Wolfgang in the Meadow

By Lenny Wen


The Café at the Edge of the Woods

By Mikey Please


Spider in the Well

By Jess Hannigan


A Spoonful of Frogs

By Casey Lyall
Illustrated by Vera Brosgol

Middle Grade

The Monstrous Adventures of Mummy Man and Waffles

By Steve Behling
Illustrated by Robb Mommaerts


The Old Willis Place Graphic Novel

By Mary Downing Hahn
Adapted by Scott Peterson, Meredith Laxton, and Sienna Haralson


Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex

By Justina Ireland


Tales from Cabin 23: Night of the Living Head

By Hanna Alkaf


Waking the Dead and Other Fun Activities

By Casey Lyall


Camp Sylvania: Moon Madness

By Julie Murphy and Crystal Maldonado


The Chronicles of Viktor Valentine

By Z Brewer


Nox Winters and the Midnight Wolf

By Rochelle Hassan


Happy Town

By Geg Van Eekhout


Wish Monster

By J. A. White


The No-Brainer's Guide to Decomposition

By Adrianna Cuevas


Thea and the Mischief Makers

By Tracy Badua

Teen

Trespass Against Us

By Leon Kemp


Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

By Adame Cesare


The Unfinished

By Cheryl Isaacs


What Stalks Among Us

By Sarah Hollowell