Creepy, spooky, and scary middle grade books for kids are often readers’ favorite kinds of books. Here are the best scary books for brave readers! Because if your readers love a good jolt of ...

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I remember the first time I encountered Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

It begins with a heart-warming scene of a dad reading his daughter a bedtime story but ends with a tale of thirsty rabbits ... claiming it scared their children and is a waste of tax payer’s money.

Ask your Google Home or Amazon Alexa to tell you a scary story. Some short stories are even interactive, allowing you or your kids to participate in the journey and determine the outcome.

"A good scary book thrills in a way no other genre can quite match, it simply demands to be read," says children's horror author Rachel Burge as I interview her, appropriately enough, on Halloween.

Pinocchio is the latest children’s horror story to get the horror film treatment – and the new version has also cast horror legend Robert Englund. It comes from the same makers of the film ...