# Horror books about fear

**5** horror books that explore fear, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Genre:** Horror  ·  **Theme:** fear
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://achievethecore.org/page/2699

## Horror fear reading list

- [It Came from the Trees](https://readinglist.school/book/it-came-from-the-trees) by Ally Russell _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2024)_
- [Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex](https://readinglist.school/book/tales-from-cabin-23-the-boo-hag-flex) by Justina Ireland _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2024)_
- [The Cursed Moon](https://readinglist.school/book/the-cursed-moon) by Angela Cervantes _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2023)_
- [The Doom Stone](https://readinglist.school/book/the-doom-stone) by Paul Zindel _(Grades 6–9 · pub 2012)_
- [The Ghost of Graylock](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ghost-of-graylock) by Dan Poblocki _(Grades 5–8 · pub 2014)_

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