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Eaaily badjelly the witch by spike Milligan. No one I have ever met has heard of it, but it is legendary in my family, officially the best book ever!

I bought a copy for DH as our own personal pregnancy announcement. Bizarrely most kiwis and Aussies know the book due to BBC radio kids hour. DH is a kiwi.

Honestly if you don't have a copy, get one now. It is a kids book you will love more than them. And it has characters named fluffybum and mudwiggle!

However DH and I also adore zHP and the kids have Stephen Fry reading them the philosophers stone every night. Forget yoga, it is the best and most chilled out 15m of my day. I even re listen when I can't sleep.

1. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (ghost story - teens/adults)

1. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (child/adult crossover - great film, too!)

1. Room 13 by Robert Swindells (Loved this as a 10 year old!)

As crazy as it sounds, I think that Wuthering Heights is spooky (amongst other things). Lots of supernatural images!

The ghost stories of M.R.James are unforgettably chilling. Also the stories of Algernon Blackwood, not read as much these days but his best are seriously scary! Try "The Doll".......

Tom's Midnight Garden springs to mind. I read it as a child and although not scary, I enjoyed the ghost element. Funnybones is a good one for Halloween for littlies and DD has enjoyed the Skulduggery Pleasant books.

House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. Creepy as all hell. (Adults only!)

As a child I loved ghost in the water.

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn. I read it once as a child and later as an adult. Quite scary both times!

Not now Bernard still spooks me!

Dracula spooks me out too...but not as much as Not now Bernard!

Cujo terrified me as a teenager. I've never really trusted dogs....

I loved Louise Cooper's Heart of Dust. I'd already read some of her other books for children and adored them, and Heart of Dust was brilliantly atmospheric, with just the right level of mystery and spookiness.

Firstly for children The Brother Grimms "Grimms Fairy Tales" are just that....grim and all too realistically horror inducing. I still remember being quite speechless with shock at the thought of the woodcutter intentionally leaving his children to starve out in the forest because his new wife didn't want them and Cinderella's awful step-sisters cutting off parts of their feet to fit into the glass slipper. Definitely not for the very young but scary indeed!

I loved Stephen King as a teenager and could thoroughly recommend many of his books for that obvious scare factor his writing engenders, however I found Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (a compilation of stories, not one of them written by Roald Dahl) far more subtly terrifying. After reading only half way through the book, I felt more than a little uncomfortable on my own in the dark. A sure sign that the stories made an impression and perfect for some Halloween fun!

The secret of Crickley hall...shivers every time..

'Marianne Dreams' is another creepy book for children.

Another Stephen King vote, I used to love his stuff when I was younger. Pet Sematary for me, although It would be a close runner up.

Now I'm lying here in bed in the dark thinking about it and wish I wasn't!

Mr McFadden's Halloween by rumer godden. Really lovely one for kids - bit shivery spooky but has a brilliant heroine. She's so brave and good. I loved it as a child and it still stands up to being read now at 39!

Pretty much anything by Susan Cooper or Alan Garner, but top of the terrifying heap has to be Elidor.

Jonathan Aycliffe's Naomi's Room is a very scary read for adults. It's a really good ghost story.

I remembered loving a book called The Tailypo when I was a child. I managed to get a copy and it's a brilliant and scary book for kids. I read it to my two boys when they were 5 and 7. They loved it but did sleep in the same bed for a couple of nights!

Night Fall by Joan Aiken. In a young adult novel. Really enjoyed it; good level of suspense and mystery. Like books which are scary but with the fear rooted in the rational and everyday.

We love reading the goosebumps books, I remember them from being a child and my two eldest dc's are totally gripped eyes wide with terror while we read them together!

Coraline is a Halloween must for us. This is as spooky as we can get as sometimes my 3 year old finds Bubbleguppies and Octonaughts a bit to scary!

Stephen King's, "Survivor Type" isn't a ghost story, but it is as creepy as a hag-filled night in Hell.

A better one for a tale around the fireside on a dark evening, is also King - Breathing Method. Seriously spine tingling.

For children, 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman has ghosts and a monster and is a great read.

The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allen Poe,

The Shining Stephen King