Small But Frighty: 8 Horror Novels About Creepy Kids to Haunt You This Holiday Season

The Other by Thomas Tyron

Twins Holland and Niles grew up connected a distant workplace with a unusual benignant of telepathy betwixt them. Holland was ever the troublemaker, Niles the 1 cleaning up the harm near successful his wake. After the nonaccomplishment of their begetter successful an mishap pushes their parent to the brink mentally, they are mostly near to attraction for themselves. As Holland’s assertive behaviour gets much and much worrying and calamity seems to travel the twins, Holland and Niles’s narration is pushed to the edge.

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Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba, Translated by Lisa Dillman

Seven-year-old Marina loses her parents successful a car mishap that besides leaves her injured and needing therapy. Afterwards, she’s sent to an orphanage, present unsocial successful the world. Despite them each being orphans, the kids astir her bully and bargain from her, ruining the doll she was fixed by the scientist astatine the hospital. To triumph them over, she asks them to play a crippled astatine nighttime wherever they unreal to beryllium dolls, but the crippled isn’t rather truthful guiltless aft all.

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

Hanna is 7 and adores her father. Too atrocious her mom, Suzette, is successful the representation too, ever taking her distant from him. As a result, Hanna develops the wont of scaring her mother, tricking her, willfully going against everything she wants her to do. Despite her husband’s oblivion to Hanna’s escalating behavior, Suzette is astatine her wit’s extremity with Hannah’s each effort to get escaped of her for good.

Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin

Amanda is dying successful a infirmary country successful Argentina, a young lad named David beside her. But helium isn’t her lad and his interrogation of her and her past isn’t affable oregon adjacent comprehensible astatine times. He wants to cognize astir the worms successful the body. In the process of their conversation, Amanda reveals her past with her ain daughter. Strangely, her past intersects with David’s much intimately than she realized.

Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

Ghostwritten is simply a compilation of 4 novellas each connected the taxable of books. In This Book Belongs to Olo, a homeschooled lad of authors creates his ain pop-up publication of his house. But it’s not conscionable a mean book; it shifts the layout of his home, making hidden hallways appear. Desperate for companionship, Olo invites a radical of kids implicit for his day to effort to marque them his champion friends forever.

The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi

Jessamy is fractional Nigerian and fractional English. At eight, she’s imaginative and intelligent to a fault, her quality to acceptable successful astatine schoolhouse impacted by her inclination to rotation disconnected wrong her mind. While connected a sojourn to Nigeria, Jessamy meets TillyTilly, a young miss who pushes her to interruption rules and bash things she shouldn’t do. As TillyTilly’s actions get much and much scary, Jessamy wonders if she’s truly her person aft all.

The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco

Murdered hundreds of years ago, Okiku haunts the Earth seeking revenge connected radical who wounded children, particularly men. When she meets a boy, Tarquin, his unusual tattoos and the evil she tin spot wrong of him drawback her attention. But her each effort astatine redeeming him fails and she indispensable crook to utmost measures successful the hopes of keeping him harmless and alive.

Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie

After a illness kills each of the children astir the satellite who haven’t yet deed puberty, the remaining radical connected Earth are near grieving and with nary answers arsenic to why. But past 3 days later, the children, buried, emergence from the dead. But they’re not rather close with their grey tegument and deficiency of heartbeats with lone a craving for blood. The caller focuses connected 3 families dealing with their children who’ve travel backmost from the dormant with bloody, bloody appetites.