What is the best horror book series for young readers?

Some of these shelves held 1990s paperback crazes, others newer books that still keep readers up past bedtime. Campfire folklore, vampires and haunted pizzerias are all in the mix.

1. 1
   Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

   Alvin Schwartz's folklore trilogy famous for Stephen Gammell's nightmarish illustrations.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Goosebumps

   R.L. Stine's bestselling 1990s Scholastic series of twist-ending scary stories for middle-grade readers.
   494pts
3. 3
   Small Spaces Quartet

   Katherine Arden's modern middle-grade horror series that begins with a school trip gone wrong.
   494pts
4. 4
   Bunnicula

   James Howe's comic-spooky series about a family pet rabbit suspected of being a vampire.
   428pts
5. 5
   Skeleton Creek

   Patrick Carman's mystery-horror series told through a journal and companion videos.
   428pts
6. 6
   Fear Street

   R.L. Stine's darker teen horror series set in the cursed town of Shadyside.
   350pts
7. 7
   Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights

   Scott Cawthon's anthology series of short horror stories set in the Five Nights at Freddy's universe.
   350pts
8. 8
   Cirque du Freak

   Darren Shan's twelve-book saga about a boy who becomes a vampire's assistant after visiting a freak show.
   350pts
9. 9
   The Spiderwick Chronicles

   Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's illustrated series about siblings who discover a dangerous hidden world of faeries.
   350pts
10. 10
    Tales of Terror

    Chris Priestley's Victorian-style collections of chilling stories framed by a sinister storyteller.
    350pts
11. 11
    Lockwood & Co.

    Jonathan Stroud's ghost-hunting series about a teenage psychic detective agency in a haunted London.
    350pts
12. 12
    Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

    Ransom Riggs's eerie fantasy series built around vintage found photographs.
    350pts
13. 13
    The Wardstone Chronicles

    Joseph Delaney's dark fantasy series, published in the US as The Last Apprentice, about a seventh son apprenticed to a witch-fighting Spook.
    350pts
14. 14
    Spooksville

    Christopher Pike's 1990s series of supernatural adventures in a small town crawling with monsters.
    257pts
15. 15
    The Demonata

    Darren Shan's gory ten-book series about young heroes battling demons from another universe.
    257pts
16. 16
    The Monstrumologist

    Rick Yancey's Gothic horror series about an orphan assisting a doctor who hunts monsters in 1880s New England.
    257pts

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