Ghost Stories: Spooky Short Stories for Middle Grade Kids Age 9-12

by Alex Smart

Enjoy a good scare? These 20 stories for middle-grade readers will give you ghoulish goosebumps. Billy decides to take a different route walking the dog. But when he follows his four-legged friend after he dashes into a haunted house, will either of them escape its clutches? Joanne is fascinated by ancient Egypt. But after she accidentally triggers a curse at the museum, she has forty minutes to undo her tragic mistake before vengeful mummies come back from the dead! Tom yearns to be more than a cabin boy, and a ghost ship full of treasure seems his chance. Will he secure the gold and jewels without getting pressed into otherworldly service? Spooky places, rattling chains, and things that go bump in the night fill this creepy collection of 20 scary stories for young readers ages 9-12. But though the horrors are spine-tingling, each tale has a happy ending, so bedtime will be a breeze! Can Isabelle and Sam figure out how to make moving statues stand still? Will Rebecca solve the puzzle to inherit her witchy powers? Crack open this hair-raising tome and find out… if you dare! Ghost Stories is a fright-filled book of middle-grade horror stories. If you or your child like nail-biting escapes, fighting monsters, and outwitting the bad guys, then you’ll love Alex Smart’s phantom-packed tales. Buy Ghost Stories to shiver your timbers today!

198 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 2, 2023

About the author

Alex Smart is the best-selling author of puzzle and trivia books, including the Things To Do While You Poo bathroom reader series.

After spending one December in a panic-buying frenzy, she created her bathroom books to be high-quality, yet inexpensive, gifts for all those ‘hard-to-buy-for’ people in her life.

Alex has always loved organizing quizzes and hosting silly ‘game nights’ for friends and family. She is fascinated by quirky trivia and loves unusual, jaw-dropping facts.

Puzzles have always fascinated Alex Smart. Having studied for a maths degree in her twenties, she loves numbers and logic. Being an only child, before the internet was invented, she became an avid reader and is a fan of unusual, but silly, words like ‘nincompoop’!

Her puzzle books span familiar formats such as crosswords and logic grids, whilst also offering new puzzle obsessions, including train tracks and murder-mystery-style puzzles.

She and her husband live in Devon, England, where they enjoy relaxing with a puzzle book whilst exploring the country by train. Occasionally, she enjoys being locked in a room with her adult children and trying to escape in under an hour.