Tinglespine Tales

Many strange things are happening over in Tinglespine Town. Your classmates disappear, rumors of ghosts and vampires become more believable each day, and at the worst possible time a friend reveals himself to be a werewolf. Can you figure out what's really happening? Can you survive the Tinglespine Tales over in Tinglespine Town?

Enjoy a bundle of "first horror stories" for young kids, ideal for Halloween, or for introducing them to more grown-up stories. Each story is short and standalone, which means you can read them in any order. But reading them all from start to finish gives you a little shared, overarching horror story too. The stories can be read to your children, or they can try and read them on their own. The language and concepts are simple enough for that.

As expected, there is no actual "horror" in these stories (no violence, no gore, nothing). They are simply a bit scary, a bit unsettling, a bit frightening. Each story focuses on a typical fear that kids (or all humans) might have, and most of them lure you into the wrong direction before revealing there was no danger after all ;)

Because "fear" is subjective, though, some stories will certainly be more scary than others to a specific kid. If your child is not scared by spiders, then the story about a big spider is not a big issue. If they are afraid of spiders, then the story hopefully helps them realize there's nothing to fear. There's no harm in being scared by a story, but we don't want kids staying up all night because of nightmares.

We hope you enjoy these silly spooky stories as much as we enjoyed writing them. This book is part of the fun and educational stories written for The Wayward Melody.