# Horror books about ghosts

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

**Genre:** Horror  ·  **Theme:** ghosts
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf

## Horror ghosts reading list

- [Wait Till Helen Comes](https://readinglist.school/book/wait-till-helen-comes) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–7 · pub 1986)_
- [The Ghost of Fossil Glen](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ghost-of-fossil-glen) by Cynthia C. DeFelice _(Grades 3–8 · pub 1998)_
- [All the Lovely Bad Ones](https://readinglist.school/book/all-the-lovely-bad-ones) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 5–8 · pub 2009)_
- [The Cursed Moon](https://readinglist.school/book/the-cursed-moon) by Angela Cervantes _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2023)_
- [The Ghost on Saturday Night](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ghost-on-saturday-night) by Sid Fleischman _(Grades 4–6 · pub 1974)_
- [The Ghost's Grave](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ghosts-grave) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–8 · pub 2006)_
- [The Ghost of Graylock](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ghost-of-graylock) by Dan Poblocki _(Grades 5–8 · pub 2014)_
- [Ghost Cadet](https://readinglist.school/book/ghost-cadet) by Elaine Marie Alphin _(Grades 3–5 · pub 1991)_
- [Ghost in the House](https://readinglist.school/book/ghost-in-the-house) by Betty Ren Wright _(Grades 4–6 · pub 1991)_
- [Horror at the Haunted House](https://readinglist.school/book/horror-at-the-haunted-house) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–6 · pub 1992)_
- [Night Terrors](https://readinglist.school/book/night-terrors) by Murphy, Jim _(Grades 6–8 · pub 1993)_
- [There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around](https://readinglist.school/book/theres-a-dead-person-following-my-sister-around) by Vivian Vande Velde _(Grades 6–8 · pub 1999)_

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