These are a few of my sons favorite books, soon to be 12, he loves reading anything ghost/monster/UFO related.
Ask the Bones : Scary Stories from around the World
by Arielle North Olson
"The last thing the young man ever saw was a hideous skull grinning at him, just inches from his face, and long bony fingers closing around his throat" What is real and what is imaginary? Do monsters and wizards lurk in the shadows, along with ghosts and invisible men? Can women turn into snakes? Can skeletons take revenge? For generations, storytellers around the world have given substance to our worst fears. Here, master storytellers retell twenty-two of the eeriest folktales for this lively collection.
The Skull of Truth : A Magic Shop Book
by Bruce Coville
Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.
End Game (Midnight Library Series #3)
by Damien Graves
Simon prefers computer games to reality. But a shockingly real turn of events might mean "Game Over" -- forever. Catherine wonders if the customer is always right when a peculiar new customer seems very, very wrong. Juliet keeps getting urgent text messages from a stranger. Soon she'll wish her phone were dead. Welcome to where your darkest dreams meet with the unhappiest of endings. Welcome to The Midnight Library.
30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps
by R. L. Stine
Weird N.J.: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
by Mark Moran
For over a decade, Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, publishers of Weird New Jersey magazine, have been traveling the highways and back roads of New Jersey, camera and notebook in hand, searching for the odd, the offbeat, and the just plain weird places and people that make the Garden State the truly bizarre place that it is.
