Harold B. Lee Library

Scary kids’ books

October 26, 2009

Trying to find that book that sent chills up your spine as a child? Here are some ways to search for your favorite scary books in the HBLL juvenile section.

1. Open the HBLL homepage.
2. Select “Library Catalog” under Unique Collections at BYU
3. Below the main search bar choose “Advanced Keyword Search”
4. In the search all box type
   “Horror tales, American Juvenile fiction” (78 results) OR
   “Supernatural Juvenile fiction” (226 results)
5. You can also limit the location to “Juvenile collection” or “Juvenile locked case” and then type
   “Horror stories” limit juvenile collection(16 results) OR
   “Horror tales” limit juvenile collection (183 results) in the search all box

Many of these titles may be duplicates.
For other fun or scary Halloween books search all for “Halloween” and limit location to “Juvenile collection” or “Juvenile locked case.” Happy haunting!

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