The collection of short stories are defiantly spooky but not spooky enough for those who love reading works of mystery, thriller or horror.

The stories are a mix of teenage dares and jump scares, mind bending creepy tales, pure horror, scream-worthy twists and eerie. In between there were also a few heart warming and heart breaking stories. What surprised me most was the bite sized length of each story. It was easy to read parallelly with other novels and perhaps a few stories would be great to narrate around a campfire.

Marriage In The Morning was perhaps the most memorable to me. It will stick with me for awhile.

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31 Days of Spooky was an enjoyable read. It's target audience is teens and adults. I do find it perfect for my children.

As an adult reader with a sensitive stomach these stories were enjoyable and easy to digest.

Not too descriptive on "horror and gore". I would he comfortable giving my 10-13 year old this book. PROVIDED THEY LIKE SPOOKY.

I feel Harper Celebrate nailed it perfectly with the right amount of scare to make this spooky.

Stories can be easily read as a countdown leading up to Halloween or just a short spooky story.

Thank you to Net Galley for the opportunity to read this copy of the book. Thank you to all the sponsors who put together Camp NetGalley this year.

I know for certain that had I ready 31 Days of Spooky as a teen, I would have loved it! Each short story was a succinct little exploration into an encounter with or realization of becoming a ghost. My favorite was “All That Glitters”, which details a unique and amusing connection between main character and ghostly presence. This collection could have used a little more of that humor as a delightful surprise throughout, but overall this was a solidly entertaining read. Thank you to Harper Celebrate and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and honestly review this ARC! This book has helped me feel excited for spooky season just around the corner!
(Goodreads review posted and linked to this feedback, IG and FB reviews shared 7/27/2025.)

A series of 31 short stories, 31 Days of Spooky sounds like a perfect countdown to Halloween! Sadly, I was disappointed with how incomplete many of the stories were. Yes, this book was written for children but if felt like many stories did not end, left the reading wondering 'what just happened?' or just plain confused. There was maybe 4 to 5 really goo's stories within but overall, it was a confusing mix.

3 ⭐

Unfortunately I didn't like this one very much. I do believe it's more targeted to a very young audience. However I believe there were some stories that gave me shivers but they just aren't for adults and that's okay.

I think as a young teen maybe 12/13 years old they would get a good scare out of this book and it's stories.

So unfortunately I am just the wrong audience.

I love the art though!

31 Days of Spooky by Harper Celebrate is a collection of short stories that might keep you up at night. Some of the stories will send chills up your spine. I found this collection entertaining and some of them reminded me of Poe or O'Henry!. I received a copy of this book through NetGalley.com and I always review every book that I read. I particularly like stories that have ghosts in them and there were plenty of ghosts! I recommend this book. It would be a great book to read around Halloween. Enjoy.

31 Days of Spooky is a collection of 31 scary stories that you would tell when you were a pre-teen or at camp and it brought back a ton of memories from when I was a kid!

As an adult, these are a little haunting but not too scary but for a pre-teen or YA book, it would be scary for them!

The plot and characters are developed well in these short stories and you feel like you get the whole story at the end. The stories are short so they are not drawn out.

The art work scattered between the stories and chapters is beautiful and so details. I love the brush strokes that you see in some of the art.

I enjoyed reading these stories and want to thank NetGalley for giving me this arc!

31 Days of Spooky is a collection of 31 short, suspenseful stories with a spooky twist. The stories are easy to read, not too difficult, and appropriate for the target audience.

The quality of the stories is good. They all have a supernatural edge and a spooky twist. With one story, you quickly sense where it's going, while another story keeps you guessing until the very end.

The variety of the stories is good. There are stories with cruel and evil ghosts, but also friendly and sometimes helpful ghosts. The setting is also varied, as are the characters.

The stories are short but comprehensive. The character development and plot are well-done. The suspense ranges from "a little" to "this gives me nightmares."

31 Short Stories with a Spooky Storyline is a book that can be read in one sitting. But it's much more fun to read a story every day before bed. Beware, that could result in a sleepless night...

This book brought me back to my childhood when I would check out books in the school library like ‘Scary stories to tell in the dark’ and the haunted states books by Kathryn Windham Tucker. I used to love these books as a child, so this book is nostalgic. From haunted B&B’s, ballet dancer, haunted lake, haunted game room, a train track debacle, a jilted bride, and more; this book gives a quick and spooky tale for each day of the month.

I actually enjoyed reading this books, savoring the haunted tales one by one like eerie little morsels of spookiness. This book would be great for middle grade to teen readers, and even adults who like scary stories.

I wouldn’t say these tales are scary; just haunting. It’s like the stories you tell around a campfire or at a sleepover when you are a middle-schooler or teen. Each different and having their own flare of spookiness.

Thank for to NetGalley and Harper Celebrate for providing this book.

I think the premise of some of these short stories could become actual books. There is something for everyone and some great ideas and plot twists in them.
I think having a themed 31 countdown in October is a very cute idea.
This book is aimed at YA and while there aren't many gory details, a lot of stories end abruptly, leaving you to your own imagination.
The pictures are amazing and often the scariest part of the book.
Spooky could mean different things to different people, scary, haunted, disturbing or Halloween based. This means that spooky tales aren't necessarily the scariest reads, especially in the YA genre.

Overall, I loved it and would read it again!
Thanks to Netgalley and Camp Netgalley who put me onto the book and Harper Celebrate too.

31 Days of Spooky is marketed as a scary collection of short stories aimed at teens and adults alike. However, personally, I felt that the stories just fell short of what was required. Teens would mostly enjoy this anthology so they are good in that respect. They are a quick and very easy to read and have good storylines and plots. However, they are missing that 'scary' element so needed in a collection like this.

The illustrations were better than the narration, each giving a terrifying snapshot into one of the main scenes depicted in each story. It is likely that it will be these that invoke the feelings of peril, rather than the text, so maybe the readers' imagination will be able to inject that fear factor so desperately needed to carry this book forward.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Celebrate Publishing for this advance readers copy.

This is a fun collection of short spooky stories that would be great during the spooky season in October. While none of the stories are truly scary they would be a great read for an older elementary grade child who likes a bit of a fright. The illustrations are spooky and a bit gory at times much like the scary stories for youth of yore.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Celebrates for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Overall, this collection was a fun and quick read,
Sadly, I realized I am not the target audience for this one. Although it's categorized as ya&teens, this is a solid middle grade read. I do not read middle grade very often.
I liked the concept of 31 spooky stories to read in the 31 days leading up to Halloween. The artwork was creepy and added a wonderful touch to the collection. However, the stories lacked depth and development. They were very much more telling than showing. A lot of them were fun to read if you want something that is just a tad bit spooky, very short and a bit of fluffy writing.

I chose this book as my Camp NetGalley 2025 read and it was a great choice! It is a collection of 31 short stories that can be read once per day, preferably in the dark and around a campfire, or binged in one sitting. The stories are not directly connected to each other in theme or characters. The collection is truly a collection because each story centers around the them of a short and scary story that you would go around a circle at Camp and share to see who can get everyone to scream the loudest. The book has various levels of spookiness or scariness. Some of the stories end more abruptly with the reader deciding what happened next and others are more explicit. Overall, this collection works and I would recommend for kids who want a quick story to share and can easily be told in any order, dipping in and out of as the reader wants.
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This collection of short stories was not bad. I liked how they were all different.. I wish some were longer but overall they were good.

The illustrations were fantastic!

I'd recommend reading this in the fall as a mild spooky set up for Halloween. I feel like this would be good to read around a campfire.

To be entirely honest, I have no idea who this book is for. It claims to be marketed for Teens and Adults, but other than the fact that the POV in most of the stories are teens and adults and there are some generally adult themes (like drinking wine after a long day of work) which would go right over a child’s head, the stories themselves are so basic and elementary that I can’t envision the target audience enjoying this book. None of the stories stood out as being spooky to me. Maybe that is because they’re so short that the author didn’t have time to successfully bring the spooky elements to life, but I found the stories to be rather dull. The ideas behind the stories are there, certainly, and the premise of a ‘countdown to Halloween” is really cool. But if these stories are really geared towards teens and adults then they should be ‘scare your pants off’ scary, and they’re not, they’re not even close. Even such stories that end with rotting bodies in coffins had no logical progression to that point and I was just left baffled. The endings to many of the stories felt disjointed and rushed, an attempt at a jump scare that was unsuccessful. I hate to give a book a bad review, but I was promised a “ghastly ghost stories to send a shiver down your spine” and it did not deliver.

I'm a big fan of short stories, especially spooky stories, and this was a great collection of short, spooky stories. This would be a perfect book for October, where you could read one story a day. The illustrations paired well with each story. I wish that I could find out who the author of the book is. This was an entertaining read and made me wish for the fall season to arrive. Some of the stories were a bit scary, so I would recommend this book for older kids (possibly middle school and up).

*this e-arc was kindly provided by NetGalley*

31 Days of Spooky is a collection of 31 (as for the days in October) short horror stories that range with different themes. I truly enjoyed the variety of the various stories, and the illustrations were absolutely wonderful! My favorite was is Day 18, so look out for that one!
I believe this book is a great introduction to the genre for teens and young adults, but also adults like myself can easily enjoy it.

A fun collection of spooky stories to guide you right into fall. A must take book for your next camping trip!

A fun and quick spooky little read! Perfect for children. Something to read to your kids while sitting around a campfire and eating s’mores.

31 stories for each day of our favorite creepy month, October! All urban legend type stories. Some stories were a bit predictable and others you wish were so much longer. My favorite inclusion were the color illustrations. So beautifully done and give the perfect spooky touch.

I wasn’t able to download this to my Kindle, but my iPad worked just fine. It showed off the illustrations better anyway.

Thank you to NetGalley for this fun little read for Camp NetGalley! Definitely the perfect Camp Read.