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Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends and Scare Your Neighbors


Tom Nardone - 2007
    Featuring the website's signature Puking Pumpkin, and spanning everything from Drowning Pumpkin, Crime Scene Pumpkin, and Cannibal Pumpkin to Electrocuted Pumpkin and other never-before-seen designs, this gleefully gory guide is nothing short of a manifesto to take back Halloween from the cheerful, the cutesy, and the parent-sanctioned. For the egg-throwing, toilet tissue- streaming, window-soaping teenager in all of us, finally- a whole new way to celebrate October 31.

The Ghost Witch


Betty Ren Wright - 1993
    . ."Jenny was really excited about moving into a big, old house--that is, until she found out it was haunted. But not just by a ghost, but by the ghost of a witch. A witch who likes to scare people with huge spiders and snakes and dragons!Jenny knows that she can't possibly live in a haunted house. And she also knows that none of her friends will want to visit her. Who wants to hang out with someone and be scared all the time? Jenny knows she has to come up with a plan and fast, or the ghost witch just might get her wish--to have a little girl to scare. . .forever!

Arthur's Halloween Costume


Lillian Hoban - 1984
    Arthur is dressed up as a ghost for the school party. Then he spills ketchup on his costume, and that's just the beginning. Now Arthur has a crazy costume that nobody can figure out- until Wilma's big sister comes up with the most original idea.

The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep


Jack Prelutsky - 1980
    "Prelutsky's rhymes are as lethal, lithe, and literate as ever, and Lobel wrings every atmospheric ounce out of them."--School Library Journal.

Horror Stories: The most Terrifying REAL unsolved mysterious and unexplained disappearances that are seriously scary, Chilling- Murder, True crimes & ... Haunted locations, Haunted house, Book 1)


Hannah J. Tidy - 2016
    All the stories in this book have been verified as being TRUE Horror stories that really took place! These stories are not made up in any way – they are backed up by FACTS. Maybe disturbing for some! Horror Stories , Hannah J. Tidy describes Bone-Chilling True Crimes, Unsolved Murders, Puzzling Disappearances, and Mysterious Deaths. You’ll learn about unexplainable mass murders, haunted hotels, phantoms of the night, and unsolved cold cases. In this New 3nd Edition of Horror Stories , you’ll find a new horrifying chapters of stories that have all happened recently within the past few years try to sleep after you read this stories. In one particular chapter you’ll discover of a modern day cannibal the roams the streets till this day So if you love to be thrilled and chilled by real-life stories of danger, loss, and the unexplained? Or are you intrigued by the dark and unknowable depths of human nature. this is the book for you! Read This Book for FREE with Kindle Unlimited – Order Now! Don’t wait another second – Hurry and Download Your Copy of Horror Stories Right Away! It’s time to learn the secrets of these chilling tales!

The Light on Hogback Hill


Cynthia C. DeFelice - 1993
    According to the creepy stories, an old hunchback lives on the hill with hundreds of black cats, and if you go up there, she'll turn you into a cat! Hadley can see the light on the hill from her bedroom window and the stories often give her nightmares.But one dark Halloween night Josh talks Hadley into making one terrifying trip up Hogback Hill to solve the mystery. And what they discover is a very old secret that someone wants to make sure is kept.

Halloween


Martha Stewart - 2001
    To help celebrate this ghoulish holiday, the editors of Martha Stewart Living bring us Halloween, a compilation of all the best tricks and treats.Organized in two sections, Halloween makes this holiday so much fun it's scary. In "Tricking, " pranksters will find all manner of pumpkin carving, eerie lighting, and makeup and decorating ideas. "Treating" provides the recipes for having a Halloween feast or a haunted-house party and ideas for making mischief with kids.This is the Halloween resource for the 2.3 million Martha Stewart Living magazine subscribers -- and everyone who shares Martha's enthusiasm for the most fun-filled holiday of the year.

Witch Craft: Wicked Accessories, Creepy-Cute Toys, Magical Treats, and More!


Margaret McGuire - 2010
    You'll also find tips and tricks for transforming found objects and everyday items into wonderfully witchy treats.

Which Witch Is Which?


Michaela Muntean - 1996
    They have written their names inside each front cover and pored over the colorful pictures. Parents have shared Golden Moments with their children, reading such classics as The Poky Little Puppy. Thanks to the happy hours spent with the books, many children have developed a lifelong love of reading.

Happy Halloween, Stinky Face


Lisa McCourt - 2007
    Petry doesn't know it's really just me at her door? What if she gets so surprised from my super-scary costume that she throws her candy bowl up and it lands on her head and candy spills all over?"It's almost time to go trick-or-treating, but first Stinky Face has just a few questions for Mama. As always, Mama lovingly addresses each and every one of her child's concerns. A sweet and reassuring Halloween tale from Lisa McCourt and Cyd Moore!

More Tales for the Midnight Hour


Judith Bauer Stamper - 1992
    Collection of 13 tales of terror for reading late at night...if you dare.

Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween?


Jerry Pallotta - 2008
    While a mother is upstairs getting her daughter's costume ready, lots of trick-or-treaters stop by the house--from werewolves, ghosts, and zombies to witches, bats, dinosaurs, and more! But are they really real?Jerry Pallotta and David Biedrzycki team up again in this spine-tingling story that's as giggle-inducing as WHO WILL HELP SANTA THIS YEAR? and WHO WILL GUIDE MY SLEIGH TONIGHT?

The Halloween House


Erica Silverman - 1997
    Cheerfully rendered ghoulies accompany each delightfully understated rhyme... A hit if read aloud or read alone, no matter what the time of year." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Ma and Pa Dracula


Ann M. Martin - 1989
    One day he goes outdoors in the middle of the afternoon, meets a girl named Tobi, and discovers that the life he has been leading is far from normal. Jonathan confronts his parents and learns their terrible secret--they're vampires!

Death and Douglas


J.W. Ocker - 2017
    Generations of his family have run the Mortimer Family Funeral Home. The mortician and gravediggers are all his buddies. And the display room of caskets is an awesome place for hide and seek. It’s business as usual in Douglas’s small New England town. Until one day an incredibly out of the ordinary murder victim is brought to the funeral home. And more startling: others follow. On the cusp of Halloween, a serial killer has arrived. And unsatisfied with the small-town investigation, Douglas enlists his friends to help him solve the mystery. With sumptuous descriptions of a bucolic town and it’s quirky people, fascinating yet middle grade–appropriate insider information about the funeral process, and a crackling mystery with a heart-pounding conclusion―Death and Douglas has something for readers young and old.