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 and puppy dogs drowning ... However the government-backed campaign has caused ...

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.

Scary stories are supposed to be, you guessed it, scary. Watch what happens to these ducks for example. Hey, not so fast ducks. When you write a scary story you need to frighten the reader.

"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.

Although the stories might be scary, you still want to be able to ... or names of people or places they know. Slightly older children might want to add in their own ideas, and even young children ...