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Stephanie Blake
A playful story about facing a first dental visit: Simon is alarmed by Ferdinand’s imagined horrors, but meets a patient dentist and discovers the experience is not painful for him.
Jon Klassen
Choose this for a child who enjoys eerie folktales, unusual friendships and stories that leave some things to imagine. The visual mood is shadowy, but the skull is presented as polite and friendly rather than simply frightening.
Scarlett Dunmore
A horror-comedy sequel with a strongly supernatural setting, school friendships and a continuing threat from Charley’s past. Its appeal lies in combining eerie atmosphere with genre-aware humour and a central relationship marked by betrayal.
Christopher Edge
This is a fast-moving horror adventure built around a familiar childhood game becoming strange and threatening. Its unusual file-based presentation adds mystery, while the friendship between Adam and Sol gives the frightening situation an emotional centre.
Kalynn Bayron
A horror premise places Charity and her friends inside a frightening version of the attraction they work in. Expect slasher suspense, dark humour, romance, disappearances and graphic violence, alongside questions about survival and familiar genre roles.
Darren Charlton
This offers a tense zombie-survival story alongside a developing romance between two boys. Its distinctive appeal lies in combining wilderness adventure with questions about belonging, prejudice, fear and how communities respond to outsiders.
Bill Wood
This is a horror mystery about survivors confronting a copycat killer who turns local legends and their past trauma into staged crimes. It offers suspense, friendship, queer romance and questions about who controls a traumatic story.
Lisa Richardson
A spooky social-media horror story about amateur ghost hunters pursuing missing vloggers into a dangerous house. Its distinctive video-diary presentation and page progress bar are intended to make the investigation feel immediate.
Yvonne Banham
A dark, fast-moving supernatural adventure about a girl learning to manage dangerous spirit-related powers while uncovering mysteries around the Uncles, her family and the wider paranormal world.
Jennifer Killick
A creepy, energetic adventure that combines frightening creatures and suspense with banter, humour and an emphasis on four unlike students learning to support one another.
Gabriel Dylan
This is a spooky rescue adventure centred on a frightened boy trying to protect his brother. Expect cemetery and crypt imagery, supernatural games, riddles and sustained suspense, alongside friendship and compassion.
Oliver Jeffers
Expect a playful ghost hunt through an old house, where transparent pages reveal apparitions that the girl cannot see. Its main pleasure is shared spotting, prediction and uncertainty rather than a neatly explained haunting.
Rosie Talbot
A spooky, character-led mystery about protecting ghosts, confronting fear and forming connections. It offers queer representation, a disabled protagonist and a romance alongside supernatural danger, with Charlie’s personal growth central to the story.
Emma Read
Choose this for a reader who enjoys a fast, spooky Christmas mystery but also wants characters’ anxiety, grief and family feelings treated as meaningful parts of the story.
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