Book Listography: Reads for Friday the 13th

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Don't walk under a ladder . . . A broken mirror brings 7 years bad luck . . . Don't cross paths with a black cat.
These are just a few unfounded fears that superstitious people believe in. For those of us that take those superstitions with a grain of salt and like to scare themselves on days like Friday the 13th, here is our book listography of creepy, supernatural, scary, and/or horror books to creep yourself out.


Middle Readers (4th grade through 7th grade)
  • Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine
  • Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

Tweens and Teens

Adults
  • Desperation by Stephen King
  • 77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
  • Cinema of Shadows by Michael West
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

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