This HIT is in answer to my request for what Halloween tales everyone was
telling at this season. We got a LOT of responses.
Halloween stories:
Skeleton in the Closet (Alice Schertle) (K)
Tell Me a Scary Story, But Not Too Scary (K)
Granny Greenteeth and the Noise in the Night (Compton) (K)
The Perfect Pumpkin Pie (K)
A Dark, Dark Tale (Ruth Brown) (K-1)
Skeleton Hiccups (Margery Cuyler) (K-1)
Gus was a Friendly Ghost (Thayer) (K-1)
Cinderella Skeleton (San Souci) (K-1)
Cranberry Halloween (Devlin) (K-1)
Big Pumpkin (Erica Silverman) (K-1)
The House the Drac Built (K-1)
The Runaway Pumpkin (K-1)
Go Away, Big Green Monster (Emberly) (K-1)
Pumpkin Eye (Denise Fleming) (K-2)
Teeny Tiny Woman (K-1)
Monster Mischief (Pamela Jane) (K-1)
The Little Green Witch (K-1)
Halloween Countdown (K-1)
Piggie Pie (Palatini) (K-2)
Beasty Story (1)
No Such Thing (Jackie French Koller) (1)
Psst, it’s me, the Bogeyman (Barbara Park) (2)
Creepy Countdown (K-2)
Halloween House (Erica Silverman) (K-2)
Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (K-2)
Hank the Clanker (K-2)
Humbug Witch (Lorna Balian) (1)
Pruella and the Boo Hag (1)
Halloweiner (Dav Pilkey) (1-3)
The Witch’s Hat (1-3)
The Ugly Pumpkin (1-3)
Bunnicula’s Halloween (1-2)
Arthur’s Halloween (video) (2)
Octavius Bloom and the House of Doom (2-3)
Tailypo (mature 2 and 3)
Ghost with the Halloween Hiccups (Mosser) (2-3)
Kate Culhane: A Ghost Story (2-3)
Monster Goose (Judy Sierra) (2-3)
Biggest Pumpkin Ever (Kroll) (2-3)
One Halloween Night (Mark Teague) (2-4)
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave (Margaret Mayer) (3)
Amelia Bedelia, Happy Haunting (3)
Scary Poems for Rotten Kids (Sean O’Hugin) (3)
Best/Worst Halloween Ever (Barbara Park) (3-4)
Widow’s Broom (Chris Van Allsburg) (3-5)
Duffy’s Jacket (Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters)(3-5)
Surprise Guest (Beware: R.L. Stine picks his favorite…) (3-5)
Spider and the Fly (DiTerlizzi) (4)
Orange You Glad It’s Halloween, Amber Brown (Danziger) (4)
The Seventh Boy (Bruchac) (4)
Cold Feet (Cynthia De Felice) (4-5)
Monster’s Ring (Bruce Coville) (4-5)
Hogula (4-5)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (David Schwartz) (4th and up)
Old Rawhead (4-6)
Skeleton Man (Bruchac) (4-6)
Coraline (Gaiman) (4-6)
Cinderhazel (Lattimore) (4-6)
Wicked Jack (5)
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jefferey (Kathryn Tucker Wyndham) (5-6)
Telltale Heart (Poe) (5-6)
All Hallow’s Eve (Yolen) (6-8)
Additional resources:
http://www.americanfolklore.net/spooky-stories.html
Favorite Scary Stories of American Children (Dockrey Young)
The Scary Story Reader (August House)
All the Short and Shivery books (San Souci)
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Gayle Hodur
District Librarian
Soledad Unified School District
Soledad, CA 93960
ghodur@redshift.com
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