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Spooky Stories and Haunted Horrors

Kids LOVE Halloween! It's always so fun to celebrate as a teacher, too. I always remember teachers decorating for Halloween, rolling around through the "haunted gym" on those flat roller scooters and bringing Halloween candy for lunch for weeks!

Tales2go has many spooky (and non-spooky!) Halloween audiobooks for kids to get you and your students in the mood. Here are some of the fan favorites:

Grades Pre-K-K
The Littlest Pumpkin by R.A. Herman

littlest pumpkin

Grades 1-2
Haunted Hike (Elliot's Park) by Patrick Carman
Zen Ghosts by Jon J. Muth
The Ghost of Donley Farm by Jaime Gardner Johnson
By the Light of the Halloween Moon by Caroline Stutson
A Very Brave Witch by Alison McGhee
Nightmare (Published by Mrs. P)
Beauty and the Beast (Alcazar Audiobooks version)

very brave witch

Grades 3-5 (Ages 7+)
Halloween 'Fraidy Mouse! (Geronimo Stilton Series)
The Mummy with No Name (Geronimo Stilton #26)
Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marisa Montes (Bilingual)
Charlie Bumper vs. the Squeaking Skull by Bill Harley
The Pumpkin Head Mystery (The Boxcar Children Series) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Magnificent Mummy Maker by Elvira Woodruff
A Big Spooky House by Donna Washington
Jack and the Haunted House by Jim May
The Green Hand told by Joel Ben Izzy

Mummy Maker

Grades 3-5 (Ages 9+)
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
The Scream of the Haunted Mask (Goosebumps Horrorland) by R.L. Stine
The Haunting of Hillside School by Kristiana Gregory
The Magic Lake  (from: Mostly Ghostly Stories)
The Stillness (from: The Clumsy Ghost & other Spooky Tales)

halloween tree

Grades 6-8
The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Bill Mooney
Rag Doll by Connie Regan Blake
Ghost Ship by Dietlof Reiche
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Deptford Mice Triolgy by Robin Jarvis
The Empty Mirror
Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Terror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Blackstone Audio version)

invisible man

Young Adult
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Presence: A Ghost Story by Eve Bunting
The Dreamhouse Series by Robert Liparulo
Shiver (Book 1: The Wolves of Mercy Falls)
House of Dark Shadows (Book 1: The Dreamhouse King Series)
Crossing Over (Book 1: The Soulvine Moor Chronicles)
The House of the Dead Maids

frankenstein

 

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Enjoy these titles and many more! Happy listening :)

Stephanie

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