My 6f child is asking for "horror" books. She does like what I would consider somewhat scarier things for her age group. She watches Coraline all the time, and enjoys the Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, and Beetlejuice (the adult jokes go over her head still). We literally read her a chapter book about Christmas scary stories because I tried to use Krampus to get her to behave one day, and she wanted to know more about the Christmas demon. She is reading independently, but doesn't have the attention span for chapter books like Goosebumps quite yet.
by Practical-Weakness36
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could read her a chapter of the original coraline novel every night, but that’s decently scarier than the movie. eight-year-old me liked it but idk what six-year-old me would’ve thought of it.
Try the Franny K. Stein and Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series. They’re the level before what most people would call “chapter books.”
Scary stories to tell in the dark? Those used to creep me out!
Goosebumps maybe.
If nightmares aren’t an issue, maybe scary stories to read in the dark
Goosebumps is classic and not that far out of the age or reading range.
Ghost: Thirteen Haunting Tales to Tell is an amazingly produced picture book and pretty darn scary. (My 8yo loved it.)
*Bunnicula*? Not quite horror, but spooky. A paranoid cat and a loyal dog meet the new addition to the family: a rabbit with unusual markings that the cat is convinced is a vampire secretly draining the juices from vegetables. It’s an early chapter book series, so maybe you could read it to her over a couple nights?