Book Recommendations from HarperCollins Children’s Books

For pre-schoolers:

  • Ten Little Pumpkins, by Dan Yaccarino
  • 13 Nights of Halloween by Guy Vasilovich
  • The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Gris Grimly
  • Vampire Boy’s Good Night, words and pictures by Lisa Brown

For K-3 / 5-8 year olds:

  • Dear Vampa by Ross Collins new!
  • Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet by Diane DeGroat
  • Halloween Night by Marjorie Dennis Murray & Brandon Dorman
  • The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams
  • The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Gris Grimly
  • The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman

For Grades 3-6 / 8-12 year olds:

  • The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann new!
  • The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver new!
  • Always October by Bruce Coville new!
  • Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovatin new!
  • The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight by Jack Prelutsky & Arnold Lobel
  • Half-Minute Horrors, edited by Susan Rich
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, collected by Alvin Schwartz, with new illustrations by Brett Helquist
  • Zombie Chasers, by John Kloepfer, with illustrations by Steve Wolfhard
  • Scary School, by R.L. Stine
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

For teens:

  • Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr new!
  • Don’t Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon new!
  • The Turning by Francine Prose new!
  • Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin new!
  • Possess by Gretchen McNeil new!
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney
  • Dark Eden, Patrick Carman
  • Shadowcry by Jenna Burtenshaw
  • Fat Vampire by Adam Rex
  • Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill
  • Teeth, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling, with contributions from Cassandra Clare & Holly Black, Neil Gaiman, and Melissa Marr