Scarey books for a 10 yr old

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Ds seems to be attracted to books about ghosts and zombies.
Any recommendations?

Shiverton Hall by Emerald Fennel is a good read for that age group

Alan Garner, eg "The Owl Service" quite creepy. Or for an outside bet, Terry Pratchett's "Mort".

"The Hound of the Baskervilles"?

Think I read the ghost of Thomas kemp at primary school!

I've been reading the spooks apprentice series by Joseph Delaney and gave a copy to my friends dd for her 10th birthday. She is enjoying it and says its pretty scary

The Goosebumps series of books are scary books aimed at children, DNephew (11 years old) reads them.

He might enjoy M R James' short ghost stories. Brilliantly creepy but written long enough ago that they don't have anything in them unsuitable for a ten year old.

www.talesofterror.co.uk

These by Chris Priestley are quite good.

Darren Shan
Jonathan Stroud
Garth Nix

My 10 yo DS loves the Skulldduggery Pleasant books.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll go through them with ds and see what he likes.

The Dead/The Fear/The Enemy series by Charlie Higson.

Ds didn't read them until age 12 ish but we met Charlie Higson who said he wrote them for his own children who loved them the scarier the better from about age 9!