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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 ...

Visiting Researcher at The University of Sheffield, Social research of children’s play and cultural worlds / archives of cultural tradition and childhood, University of Sheffield All About Ghosts by ...

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Still from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Credit: Courtesy photo Alvin Schwartz’s collection of short horror stories for kids gets a big screen attempt with Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, ...

Taylor Hunsberger is a culture writer, poet, and children’s librarian at the East Flatbush branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. She has presented work on the topic of children’s horror literature at ...

In anticipation of Halloween, I just picked up a complete collection of the ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ book series (Alvin Schwartz, 1981; 1984; 1991), which I loved as a kid (despite a few of ...