The Best Haunted House Books for Kids

A visitor opens cupboards, peers into the bath, and pulls tabs that make every room reveal one more wonderfully engineered fright.

A small witch discovers ghosts in every room, runs them through the wash, and finds several excellent uses for clean white sheets.

A lonely house tries to stop her creaks, groans, and rattling pipes so that a family might finally choose her.

Aggie wants a house of her own; the ghost already living there proposes a winner-takes-the-house game of tic-tac-toe.

A blocked writer rents a Victorian mansion and discovers that a boy, a cat, and the resident ghost have no intention of leaving.

Amanda and Josh move into a gloomy old house in Dark Falls, where the neighborhood children are friendly in a distinctly unsettling way.

A resentful stepsister begins meeting a lonely girl beside the pond, and the ghost wants far more than friendship.

Two children living under a strict set of rules at an abandoned mansion watch a new girl arrive—and risk everything to speak to her.

Three young ghost hunters enter one of England’s most lethal houses armed with iron, salt, and considerably less adult supervision than seems wise.

After moving into a house with a violent history, Harper notices her little brother talking to someone nobody else can see.

A teenager renovating a crumbling New Orleans house finds an old comic whose panels are beginning to explain the noises in the walls.

A blended family’s new home smells wrong, objects disappear, and a small child keeps pointing at somebody who is not there.