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* ''Literature/ShortAndShivery'': An anthology series of spooky tales.
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* ''Literature/BoneChillers''
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* ''Literature/GraveyardSchool''
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* ''Literature/{{Shivers}}'': An anthology series following in the steps of ''Goosebumps'', with the tendency to be darker.
* ''Literature/{{Spooksville}}'': A boy moves into a TownWithADarkSecret and teams up with a few other kids to deal with the weird situations they find themselves in.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'': A little kid is thursted into the responisbility of TheChosenOne, and through his journey faces plenty of horrific monsters & demons. The show will often feature mentions or offscreen deaths, plenty of scary moments for kids, terrifying monsters and the BigBad winning on a few occasion. [[spoiler: The GrandFinale even goes so far as to kill two of the lead characters onscreen, and the Big Bad almost wining until the last second.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'': A little kid is thursted into the responisbility of TheChosenOne, and through his journey faces plenty of horrific monsters & demons. The show will often feature mentions or offscreen deaths, plenty of scary moments for kids, terrifying monsters and the BigBad winning on a few occasion. [[spoiler: The GrandFinale even goes so far as to kill two of the lead characters onscreen, and the Big Bad almost wining until the last second.]]
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** ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'' embraces this trope wholeheartedly, with a villain who not only traps children in unending nightmares, but also poses as an "ally" who suggests that it's ''all your fault and the best way to fix things is to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar kill yourself]].''
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* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMightyMonsters'': A movie trilogy revolving around three monster teens who after getting expelled from monster school because of their history of pranks are forced to attend a human one as punishment.
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* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}} franchise has dabbled in this a couple times:
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' starts out as a typically cute and colorful ''Pokemon'' game, but rapidly heads into this territory once the [[EldritchAbomination Ultra Beasts]] show up.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'' embraces this trope wholeheartedly, with a villain who not only traps children in unending nightmares, but also poses as an "ally" who suggests that it's ''all your fault and the best way to fix things is to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar kill yourself]]]].''
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' starts out as a typically cute and colorful ''Pokemon'' game, but rapidly heads into this territory once the [[EldritchAbomination Ultra Beasts]] show up.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'' embraces this trope wholeheartedly, with a villain who not only traps children in unending nightmares, but also poses as an "ally" who suggests that it's ''all your fault and the best way to fix things is to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar kill yourself]]]].''
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* ** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' starts out as a typically cute and colorful ''Pokemon'' game, but rapidly heads into this territory once the [[EldritchAbomination Ultra Beasts]] show up.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'' **''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'' embraces this trope wholeheartedly, with a villain who not only traps children in unending nightmares, but also poses as an "ally" who suggests that it's ''all your fault and the best way to fix things is to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar kill yourself]]]].''
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheTrapDoor'': A claymation show where a blob creature, a bug and a talking skull deal with monsters coming from under the titular trap door.
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* ''Literature/AlfieTheWerewolf'': A series that starts with a young boy who discovers he's a werewolf on the night of his seventh birthday.
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* ''Literature/FrannyKStein'': A little girl who strives to be a mad scientist working on several ghastly experiments.
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* ''Literature/TheresSomethingAboutSam'': Max invites the new kid Sam to his birthday sleepover in spite of the newcomer's oddities making him hesitant, and he quickly realizes Sam is like that for [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent a reason]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The premise is mostly about a boy and his shapeshifting dog having adventures in a oddball fantasy land. But a lot of the places they visit have some very morbid atmosphere where death is a very real possibility. Not to mention some horrfic creatures and imaginary they run into to the point it feels more like a {{Deconstruction}} of the fantasy genre.
* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' which has the Riverdale gang tangling with paranormal and extraterrestrial beings.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' which has the Riverdale gang tangling with paranormal and extraterrestrial beings.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': While a superhero show, it also deals with ghosts and can get pretty scary sometimes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLastKidsOnEarth'': Four Friends try to survive a ZombieApocalypse while dealing with supernatural creatures, and an [[GalacticConqueror interdimensional entity]] wanting to conquer Earth.
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Not all kiddy media is about sweetness and happiness; sometimes, kids' shows center around a much spookier vibe, featuring such things as dark forests, creepy castles, haunted graveyards, or lands inhabited by non-human beings. As ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' states, "Life's No Fun Without A Good Scare!".
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Not all kiddy media is about sweetness and happiness; sometimes, kids' shows center around a much spookier vibe, featuring such things as dark forests, creepy castles, haunted graveyards, or lands inhabited by non-human beings. As ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' states, "Life's No Fun Without A Good Scare!".
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* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': Films concerning the lives of the monsters hidden under the kids's beds and in the kids's closets.
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** ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': The prequel to the above movie.
** ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': The prequel to the above movie.
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* ''Anime/AfterSchoolMidnighters'': Three girls partake in a {{kimodameshi}} hosted by actual monsters for the chance to see one wish fulfilled.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'': A Tim Burton movie about a man in an ArrangedMarriage who ends up accidentally engaged to an undead woman.
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'''s cadaverous Horned King explicitly seeks the titular object to raise an army of the dead, and ''does'' in the climax, though it doesn't get very far before the heroes defeat him. The film has a deliberately DarkerAndEdgier StandardFantasySetting than usual for Disney, and ended up their first PG-rated animated feature ''after'' a few particularly grim scenes were trimmed for going too far for this trope.
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** Much of ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' is lighthearted, but the evil fairy Maleficent is one of the most menacing Disney antagonists even ''before'' she goes OneWingedAngel as a dragon. She's also the most ''popular'' antagonist of the canon to the point that [[Film/{{Maleficent}} a pair]] [[Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil of live-action]] PerspectiveFlip films recast her as a ''protagonist'' whom the audience has sympathy for, and which also fall under this trope.
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* While no Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon film is explicitly framed as kid-friendly horror, several of them have noticeably more frightening characters and situations than others:
** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has the titular Beast, a TragicMonster BalefulPolymorph who menaces trespassers to his palace (presented as a sort of HauntedCastle and inhabited by occasionally creepy {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s) in the early going, and is so frightening when he loses his temper that at one point the heroine flees into a snowy forest full of wolves to escape him...only for him to rescue her from them, formally launching his CharacterDevelopment. Come the third act, a TorchesAndPitchforks mob goes after him and manages to be ''more'' frightening than he ever was before the Enchanted Objects fight back.
** Poor ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' is put through the wringer on the way to his HappilyEverAfter, with ''multiple'' antagonists ready to exploit and destroy him in turn -- puppeteer Stromboli (who intends to chop him up into firewood once he's no longer profitable), the Coachman (who takes boys to Pleasure Island to turn them into donkeys who are sold to circuses, salt mines, etc.), and Monstro the whale (a mindless eating machine whose very name inspires terror among all other sea creatures).
** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' draws a lot of inspiration from 1930s horror cinema for the scenes featuring the Evil Queen and her "harmless old peddler woman" -- read: WickedWitch -- alter ego (her transformation from the former to the latter is heavily inspired by the 1931 version of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''), while Snow White's initial flight into the forest is portrayed as a surreal nightmare from her fear-distorted point of view. The film actually served as a huge inspiration for Italian horror filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s, who had not been allowed to see conventional horror films in the Fascist era.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has the titular Beast, a TragicMonster BalefulPolymorph who menaces trespassers to his palace (presented as a sort of HauntedCastle and inhabited by occasionally creepy {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s) in the early going, and is so frightening when he loses his temper that at one point the heroine flees into a snowy forest full of wolves to escape him...only for him to rescue her from them, formally launching his CharacterDevelopment. Come the third act, a TorchesAndPitchforks mob goes after him and manages to be ''more'' frightening than he ever was before the Enchanted Objects fight back.
** Poor ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' is put through the wringer on the way to his HappilyEverAfter, with ''multiple'' antagonists ready to exploit and destroy him in turn -- puppeteer Stromboli (who intends to chop him up into firewood once he's no longer profitable), the Coachman (who takes boys to Pleasure Island to turn them into donkeys who are sold to circuses, salt mines, etc.), and Monstro the whale (a mindless eating machine whose very name inspires terror among all other sea creatures).
** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' draws a lot of inspiration from 1930s horror cinema for the scenes featuring the Evil Queen and her "harmless old peddler woman" -- read: WickedWitch -- alter ego (her transformation from the former to the latter is heavily inspired by the 1931 version of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''), while Snow White's initial flight into the forest is portrayed as a surreal nightmare from her fear-distorted point of view. The film actually served as a huge inspiration for Italian horror filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s, who had not been allowed to see conventional horror films in the Fascist era.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': A Tim Burton show. Meet Lydia Deetz, a PerkyGoth girl attending a private school in a sleepy little Connecticut town while trying to deal with her well-meaning but eccentric parents. One day she comes across Beetlejuice, the manic self-described "Ghost With the Most", who befriends her and whisks her off from her ordinary life into frequent adventures in the {{Cloudcuckooland}} world of the Neitherworld. Not to be confused with Tim Burton's film of the same name.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax: A little kid is thursted into the responisbility of TheChosenOne, and through his journey faces plenty of horrific monsters & demons. The show will often feature mentions or offscreen deaths, plenty of scary moments for kids, terrifying monsters and the BigBad winning on a few occasion. [[spoiler: The GrandFinale even goes so far as to kill two of the lead characters onscreen, and the Big Bad almost wining until the last second.
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Not all kiddy media is about sweetness and happiness; sometimes, kids' shows center around a much spookier vibe, featuring such things as dark forests, creepy castles, haunted graveyards, or lands inhabited by non-human beings. As ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' states, "Life's No Fun Without A Good Scare!".
[[TitleDrop Spooky Kids Media]] are books, movies, TV series, or video games aimed at children that feature creepy characters, scary settings, and other twisted imagery. Even though it's family-friendly, this story is full of NightmareFuel that may scare especially sensitive youngsters. A HalloweenEpisode in a show for kids often qualifies.
Compare: SurpriseCreepy, DefangedHorrors, ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight, WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids
Contrast: AdultFear, KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms, WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids
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* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Starts out as a seemingly normal MonsSeries, but things eventually take a turn for the dark, all culminating in the reveal of the D-Reaper, a rogue AI doing only what it was programmed to do: delete everything it touches. And it's not afraid to physically and psychologically torture a grieving ten year old to feed on her grief to help accomplish its goal. It's a CosmicHorrorStory for kids.
* ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'': Probably the oldest example from the list, having at least 6 anime series, 2 live-action films, and a dozen of video games. It's about a one-eyed ghost boy named Kitaro himself and his {{youkai}} friends. Adaptations vary on just how scary they are.
* ''Anime/ThrillerRestaurant'': A compilation of ''[[GhostStory kaidan]]'', which is known in Western as the kids version of ''Tales of the Crypt''.
* ''Anime/GhostStories'': Only the original Japanese and second English dub, as the first dub is a mature GagDub. A group of school kids deal with {{youkai}} and other supernatural phenomenon.
* ''Anime/YokaiWatch'': A fifth grader finds a watch that lets him interact with {{youkai}}. While some of the yokai are friendly and harmless for the most part, the series doesn't shy around from the few that ''do'' pose a danger and seek to harm humans.
* ''Anime/YokaiWatchShadowside'': A darker, more actiony sequel starring Nate's daughter.
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* ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'': A girl with self-esteem issues falls into a hole in the middle of nowhere and meets the ghost of a girl who was supposedly murdered, promising to help her find out who did so.
* ''ComicBook/BeetleAndTheHollowbones'': The series is set in a {{Halloweentown}}.
* ''Creature Feature'' : A horror/comedy comic series [[Music/CreatureFeature based around the band of the same name]], about our two [[HeroicComedicSociopath "protagonists"]], Curtis and Erik, going on bizarre misadventures based around their songs.
* ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'': A group of students investigate a haunting and other oddities at their boarding school.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019'': A child friendly CGI film adapting the comic strip about a creepy family in a creepy house.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'': Cheesebridge is a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. The only thing that its residents are more obsessed with is their [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight fear of the evil, murderous monsters that dwell in the sewers]]. At least, [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood that's the legend residents have always believed]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': A young aspiring musician enters the Land of the Dead and meets the spirits of his ancestors.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'': A stop-motion adaptation of the book. A young girl explores her house and discovers an alternate version of her home. It seems idealistic at first but is more ominous than it seems.
* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'': A Tim Burton movie about a man in an ArrangedMarriage who ends up accidentally engaged to an undead woman.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'': A Tim Burton film that tells the story about young Victor Frankenstein and his dog, a reanimated bull terrier named [[FrankensteinsMonster Sparky]]
* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'': Dracula owns a hotel for supernatural beings.
** ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania2'': Dracula's daughter Mavis and her boyfriend Johnny get married and have a seemingly human son. Drac wants to train Dennis to become a vampire.
** ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'': Dracula, his family, and his friends go on a monster cruise.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'': A trio of kids dealing with a monstrous living house.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': Films concerning the lives of the monsters hidden under the kids's beds and in the kids's closets.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': A Tim Burton film about a living skeleton from a Halloween-centric town who becomes enamored with Christmas and tries to usurp Santa. Due to its plot, it can be ''both'' a Halloween and Christmas film.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}'': A boy who can speak to the dead saves his town from zombies, ghosts, and witches.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'': Scooby and Shaggy are hired as gym teachers at a finishing school for monster girls.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'': Shaggy is turned into a werewolf by Count Dracula himself to compete in a race against other real, famous monsters.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': The first truly ''horror''-themed ''Scooby Doo'' work. Now in their 20s, Mystery Inc reunites to visit an island full of real zombies.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'': Mystery Inc encounter both an evil warlock and the eponymous ghost witch.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'': Scooby and Shaggy have to enter the world of magic to stop an evil magician-turned-sorcerer from turning everyone and everything on Earth into Halloween monsters.
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* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'': Films based on ''The Addams Family'' show, but DarkerAndEdgier like the original comics.
* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'': A Tim Burton film about Barbara and Adam Maitland, a loving young couple who die in a car accident and find themselves caught in the CelestialBureaucracy of the afterlife.
* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'': In which MadScience takes on occult terror, and wins, hilariously.
** ''Film/GhostbustersII'': A sequel to the original film that sees the Ghostbusters tackling a river of slime that thrives on negative emotions and the ghost of an ancient tyrant.
** ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'': A continuity reboot with an all-female team of Ghostbusters.
** ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'': An {{Unreboot}} sequel/spinoff to ''Ghostbusters II'' about a new team of Ghostbusters.
* ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'': The movie adaptation of ''Goosebumps'' is a 2015 horror/fantasy comedy. Stine and his daughter Hannah must combat every single one of Stine's creations after Zach and his friend Champ accidentally unleash them from the very books themselves.
* ''Film/{{Halloweentown}}'': A franchise which focuses on a parallel world filled with monsters. The dangers don't come from them (a majority of them are friendly and just live their lives like any human) but from the evil forces that try to take it over.
** ''Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge''
** ''Halloweentown High''
** ''Return to Halloweentown''
* ''Film/HocusPocus'': A 1993 [[HalloweenSpecial Halloween-themed]] Creator/{{Disney}} film [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "for kids"]]. Three kids have to fight for their lives against three homicidal witches hunting them.
* ''Film/TheLittleVampire'': A LiveActionAdaptation of the books. A young boy befriends a family of vampires.
* ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': A film based on the first three books. Three orphaned siblings get sent to live with their abusive distant relative who only wants their inheritance and is willing to resort to murder to get it.
* ''Film/ReturnToOz'': A TruerToTheText film based on the second and third ''Land of Oz'' books. Dorothy returns to Oz, only to be chased by monsters and nearly beheaded by an evil princess.
* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'': The Mystery Inc crew have to solve a mystery at a haunted island/resort.
** ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'': The Mystery Inc crew encounter real-life monsters based on their old enemies.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BaileySchoolKids'': Students keep getting new teachers and other authority figures who seem to be monsters and aliens.
* ''Literature/CampZombie'': Corey and Amanda head off to a summer camp at Camp Harvest Moon, a place with a reputedly questionable past. Strange events begin to occur.
* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'': A girl moves into her new house and finds another world hidden away inside the walls. She soon finds this alternate universe isn't as pleasant as seems.
* ''Literature/TheDemonHeadmaster'': The eponymous character wants to brainwash everybody to bring order to the world and shows a [[WouldHurtAChild willingness to kill children.]]
* ''Literature/EdgarAndEllen'': CreepyTwins cause mischief in their town.
* ''Literature/FungusTheBogeyman'': The life of a Bogeyman with the job of scaring humans.
* ''Literature/{{Ghostgirl}}'': A teenager chokes on a gumball, dies, and must now finish high school amongst other undead students.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'': Surreal stories about children who find themselves in scary situations.
* ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'': When a young boy's family is killed, he takes refuge in a graveyard. The dead there take him in, and dub him Nobody Owens (although his friends call him Bod).
* ''Literature/HocusPocusAndTheAllNewSequel'': A {{novelization}} and SpinOffspring of the film. A group of teenagers fight against evil witch sisters on Halloween.
* ''Literature/TheLittleVampire'': A book series about a boy who befriends a friendly vampire family.
* ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': While the stories may be scary for an eight-year old, older audiences will find them more cheesy than anything else. Instead, what makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]) are the illustrations that accompany them.
* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': A creepy series about the life of three siblings orphaned and sent to live with a malicious distant relative.
* ''Literature/ScaryGodmother'': Predominantly Haloween-themed stories about a girl who befriends monsters and the titular "Scary Godmother".
* ''Literature/VarjakPaw'': A kitten must save his family by venturing outside his home.
* ''Literature/WhichWitch'' is about witches in a contest to see who can perform the greatest feat of dark magic.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''Series/TheNewAddamsFamily'': The adventures of a wacky, morbid family.
* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': A children's horror show made by Creator/{{YTV}} in Canada and aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the U.S. The story revolved around a club of teenagers called the "Midnight Society" who meet around a campfire in the woods once a week to tell horror stories.
* ''Series/CaptainKangaroo'': Defied, as Bob Keeshan sought to create the most welcoming and wholesome early-morning children's show possible. However, his earliest shows had a suit of plate armor assembled around a mannequin as a set piece. This "metal man" proved to be unnerving to his audience, so Keeshan struck the armor from the set, never to be seen again.
* ''Series/DeadtimeStories'': In the new show, a babysitter shows up at the house of two kids to read them a "deadtime story", bringing them the actual physical books themselves. As she reads them the story, we then see the story itself play out, occasionally cutting back to the "real world" where the babysitter and kids interrupt and provide comments.
* ''Series/EerieIndiana'': Marshall Teller, a recent transplant from New Jersey whose family has just moved to the desolate town of Eerie, and Simon Holmes, an Eerie native, investigate the weirdness that inhabits the titular town.
* The television adaptation to ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'', which focuses on live action adaptations of the horror stories from the book series.
* ''The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein'': A SketchComedy series starring [[Creator/VincentPrice Vincent Price]], set in Castle Frightenstein in Frankenstone, featuring a vampire MadScientist and other monsters.
* ''Series/TheMunsters'': A MundaneFantastic DomCom that originally ran from 1964 to 1966 about a working class family of would-be monsters.
* ''Series/MysteryHunters'': An educational kid's show focusing on mysterious, scary, and occult things.
* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': Three children and their widowed father live in a lighthouse, which is WeirdnessMagnet for all kinds of bizarre, creepy, and supernatural events.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': A spin-off of ''Series/DoctorWho'' aimed at children and broadcast on a children's channel, but had some material that was as creepy as the original (most notoriously the story "Day of the [[MonsterClown Clown]]"). The main "kids" element was that it didn't have the original show's occasional DownerEnding tendency.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Spoofed via ShowWithinAShow. One sketch ("Der Lacheln Beherrscht" from the 2001 episode hosted by Creator/JuliaStiles) depicted a German kids' show with some rather terrifying imagery. The American kids in the audience react badly and the show's American broadcast is cancelled.
* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': A TruerToTheText series based on the books series. Three orphans are sent to a relative who abuses them and plots to steal their inheritance. After they escape him, he continues to pursue them, trying to capture the three and willing to murder anyone who gets in his way. All the while the orphans find out some dark secrets about their parents.
* ''Series/TruthOrScare'': A documentary series geared around supernatural events, cryptids, and creepy historical events.
* ''Series/YoungDracula'', about a thirteen year old immigrant from [[{{Uberwald}} somewhere unspecified in Eastern Europe]], whose family moves to a run-down castle in the British Isles, and who is quite appreciative of just being a normal kid in a normal [[TheGoodOldBritishComp secondary modern school]] where nothing ever happens. He ''really'' doesn't want to grow up to be a vampire.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Surprisingly enough, ''Music/CreatureFeature'' falls into this. Despite their usage of the words "Damn" and "Hell", their lyrics are mostly clean and most of their music is fun and upbeat, [[Main/LyricalDissonance even though the lyrics are quite dark and morbid]]. Both [[Main/PerkyGoth Curtis and Erik]] are very sweet in real life and most of their songs are influenced by their own twisted childhoods, including: Halloween, horror films, the great works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe and Creator/EdwardGorey and other ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight. They even have their own [[ComicBook/CreatureFeature comic book series]] for children ages 12 and up.
* The "Nightmare Revisited" album, which is a cover album of the score and songs from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s "Spooky Songs for Creepy Kids," especially since "Brains!" and "Land of The Dead" are from the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* The kid-friendly version of ''Podcasts/RealGhostStoriesOnline'', which is a daily paranormal podcast featuring real, horrific ghost stories and other tales of the paranormal and supernatural.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'': A musical comedy adaptation of the above-mentioned ''Addams Family'', the plot revolves around Wednesday Addams, now a young woman, falling in love with a young man from a more conventional family and the culture clash that ensues.
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'': Takes its visitors through a ghost filled haunted mansion and its cemetery with a heavy dose of humor.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* The ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' dolls: A series about supernatural beings and monsters going to high school.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/AttackOfTheMutant'': A SilentProtagonist gets off the bus at a stop they didn't want to. Turns out this stop is the headquarters of the infamous supervillain, the Masked Mutant, who can transform into anything and anyone.
* ''VideoGame/EscapeFromHorrorland'': Set as a sort-of sequel to the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book "One Day at Horrorland". The player is the friend of Lizzie, a bossy young girl who was babysitting her brother, Luke, and his friend, Clay, for the night. Suddenly, cosmic forces transport the protagonists into a bizarre place called Horrorland. You need to rescue Luke and Clay and then [[TitleDrop escape from Horrorland]].
* ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'': Wherein a teenager has to save his girlfriend from a haunted house.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': The brother of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros everyone's favorite Italian plumber]] wins a haunted mansion in a contest he didn't enter and has to save his sibling by ridding the house of ghosts using a modified vacuum cleaner.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'': A sequel to the above, in which Luigi must bust ghosts and save his brother again through multiple mansions while chasing a ghost puppy.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'': Another sequel, in which Luigi must bust ghosts and save his brother for the third time inside a hotel.
* ''VideoGame/SorcerersLair'': A brother and sister duo explore a spooky mansion inhabited by a sorcerer.
* ''VideoGame/SpiritsAndSpells'': In which a pair of trick-or-treaters have to enter the land of the dead to save their friends.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': A {{mon}} series where a kid fights and befriends {{youkai}}.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': A trio of [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Mystery Inc]]- style investigators encounter and are chased across Texas by a fiery ghost who turns out to be their group's missing fourth member, who they did not know was deceased.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': A Nickelodeon Klasky-Csupo series about three young monsters who attend a school to learn how to scare people.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily'': The 1973 and 1992 animated versions focus on a creepy family with macabre interests.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The premise is mostly about a boy and his shapeshifting dog having adventures in a oddball fantasy land. But a lot of the places they visit have some very morbid atmosphere where death is a very real possibility. Not to mention some horrfic creatures and imaginary they run into to the point it feels more like a {{Deconstruction}} of the fantasy genre.
* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' which has the Riverdale gang tangling with paranormal and extraterrestrial beings.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': A Tim Burton show. Meet Lydia Deetz, a PerkyGoth girl attending a private school in a sleepy little Connecticut town while trying to deal with her well-meaning but eccentric parents. One day she comes across Beetlejuice, the manic self-described "Ghost With the Most", who befriends her and whisks her off from her ordinary life into frequent adventures in the {{Cloudcuckooland}} world of the Neitherworld. Not to be confused with Tim Burton's film of the same name.
* ''WesternAnimation/BradysBeasts'': Monsters are commonplace and make popular household pets.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaspersScareSchool'': A 2009 animated series based on the CGI film Casper's Scare School starring WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost.
* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'': A cartoon about a vampire duck.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': A series about the [[NervousWreck nervous]] but [[CowardlyLion courageous]] titular dog who constantly has to deal with creepy creatures, hostile people, and weird phenomena to protect himself and his owners in [[TownWithADarkSecret The Middle of Nowhere]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': While a superhero show, it also deals with ghosts and can get pretty scary sometimes.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrakPack'': Starring Frankie, Howler, and Drak Jr., three teenage boys who are capable of turning into a Frankenstein's Monster, a Werewolf, and a Vampire.
* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'': A sequel series of ''The Real Ghostbusters''. This version lives up to its namesake as it focuses more heavily on the darker aspects of the series with the new team of Ghostbusters fighting terrifying monsters and horrors. The team is put in danger much more frequently than in the original, to the point of being nearly killed in a few cases. The tone is a bit more cynical as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/FrankensteinsCat'': Based on a children's book by Curtis Jobling, ''Frankenstein's Cat'' is centered around Doctor Frankenstein's first experiment; a cat is created by the Doctor out of nine different cats, leading to his name being Nine.
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': The cartoon version is a sequel to the original live action series. While that one has light-hearted and silly villains, here the ghosts are slightly more malicious leading to a few tense moments.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'': A Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon set in a school where [[AllGhoulsSchool the pupils and staff]] are [[MonsterMash an assortment of monsters]], except for TokenHuman teacher [[Creator/RickMoranis Mr. Schneider]].
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Twins move in with their great uncle in a TownWithADarkSecret. It's the closest to Lovecraftian Horror that Disney can get while still being a children's show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': The GrimReaper walks around with two weird (in their own ways) kids. Supernatural events and creatures appear in every episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids'': A British {{Nightmare Fuel}}led SpaceWhaleAesop animated series, narrated by host Nigel Planer.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': The show is about three young protagonists going up against creatures like trolls, ghosts, giants, nightmare spirits, and a big black dog with glowing eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTheSeries'': An animated prequel series to the ''Hotel Transylvania'' films that focuses on Mavis and her monster friends.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': The show is about an AmusingAlien attempting to conquer Earth. The show was short-lived due to its disturbing content, but it has a cult fanbase.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}}'': Animated adaptation of the live action movie that veers into its own AlternateContinuity where the majority of the series takes place within the board game and EverythingTryingToKillYou is in full effect for the protagonists.
* ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'': NaiveNewcomer Charlotte thinks she can befriend Vendetta, a horrid little girl who makes monsters, or fiends, through baking. Vendetta cannot stand Charlotte's happy-go-lucky nature, and will often go to great lengths to destroy Charlotte (or at least get her out of the way for a little bit).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': Despite the premise of a seafaring adventure, the series has plenty of creepy episodes, imagery and moments.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonaTheVampire'': A little girl imagines herself as a vampire superhero and regularly confronts supernatural monsters along with her two best friends.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': Brothers travel through a mysterious forest while stalked by a horrifying beast.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The series centers around witches and demons in The Boiling Isles, a land brimming with all sorts of strange and horrific creatures. The main characters are a witch who [[spoiler: transforms into a monster if she doesn't drink a special potion]], a demon with a skull head, and a human NightmareFetishist.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': An AlternateUniverse of the film that explores more of the spooky vibe of the original movie. The heroes tend to fight a lot of paranormal demons and EldritchAbomination with the usual odd DemonicPossession here and there. While it does try to downplay it with the jokes, it doesn't make it any less scary (unless you count [[SeasonalRot the later seasons]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/RottingHills'': A boy moves to a town populated by zombies.
* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'': The show is about a bunch of monster kids living in a dark mansion on the outskirts of a {{Halloweentown}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScaryGodmother'': Two Halloween specials where a girl befriends friendly monsters.
*''WesternAnimation/SchoolForVampires'': A German/Italian horror-comedy children's animated television series, which, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin not surprisingly]], centers around a group of vampire children learning everything that a vampire needs to know at the School for Vampires.
* The ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' franchise: One of the oldest examples. A group of teenagers wander around the country (or even the world) and constantly stumble upon monsters and ghosts. Usually this is a [[ScoobyDooHoax hoax]], but some incarnations have the gang stumble onto the real deal.
* ''WesternAnimation/SkeletonWarriors'': A sci-fi version of the terrible army of the dead sweeping the world.
* ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheCryptkeeper'': A LighterAndSofter animated spin-off of the horror series Series/TalesFromTheCrypt with kids as the main characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTrapDoor'': A claymation show where a blob creature, a bug and a talking skull deal with monsters coming from under the titular trap door.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tutenstein}}'': An educational cartoon about a girl who befriends the mummy of a pharaoh.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'': A Creator/DisneyJunior series about a friendly family of vampires.
* ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'': Two half-brothers encounter various, predominantly Mexican, supernatural beings in their hometown.
* ''WesternAnimation/ZombieHotel'': A cartoon about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a hotel run by zombies]].
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-->''In the Vampire Hall of Fame, yeah''
-->''There's not a vampire zanier than'' '''''Duckula!'''''
-->''He won't bite beast or man,''
-->''Cause he's a vegetarian,''
-->''And things never run to plan for'' '''''Duckula!'''''
-->--''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula''
Not all kiddy media is about sweetness and happiness; sometimes, kids' shows center around a much spookier vibe, featuring such things as dark forests, creepy castles, haunted graveyards, or lands inhabited by non-human beings. As ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' states, "Life's No Fun Without A Good Scare!".
[[TitleDrop Spooky Kids Media]] are books, movies, TV series, or video games aimed at children that feature creepy characters, scary settings, and other twisted imagery. Even though it's family-friendly, this story is full of NightmareFuel that may scare especially sensitive youngsters. A HalloweenEpisode in a show for kids often qualifies.
Compare: SurpriseCreepy, DefangedHorrors, ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight, WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids
Contrast: AdultFear, KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms, WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Starts out as a seemingly normal MonsSeries, but things eventually take a turn for the dark, all culminating in the reveal of the D-Reaper, a rogue AI doing only what it was programmed to do: delete everything it touches. And it's not afraid to physically and psychologically torture a grieving ten year old to feed on her grief to help accomplish its goal. It's a CosmicHorrorStory for kids.
* ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'': Probably the oldest example from the list, having at least 6 anime series, 2 live-action films, and a dozen of video games. It's about a one-eyed ghost boy named Kitaro himself and his {{youkai}} friends. Adaptations vary on just how scary they are.
* ''Anime/ThrillerRestaurant'': A compilation of ''[[GhostStory kaidan]]'', which is known in Western as the kids version of ''Tales of the Crypt''.
* ''Anime/GhostStories'': Only the original Japanese and second English dub, as the first dub is a mature GagDub. A group of school kids deal with {{youkai}} and other supernatural phenomenon.
* ''Anime/YokaiWatch'': A fifth grader finds a watch that lets him interact with {{youkai}}. While some of the yokai are friendly and harmless for the most part, the series doesn't shy around from the few that ''do'' pose a danger and seek to harm humans.
* ''Anime/YokaiWatchShadowside'': A darker, more actiony sequel starring Nate's daughter.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'': A girl with self-esteem issues falls into a hole in the middle of nowhere and meets the ghost of a girl who was supposedly murdered, promising to help her find out who did so.
* ''ComicBook/BeetleAndTheHollowbones'': The series is set in a {{Halloweentown}}.
* ''Creature Feature'' : A horror/comedy comic series [[Music/CreatureFeature based around the band of the same name]], about our two [[HeroicComedicSociopath "protagonists"]], Curtis and Erik, going on bizarre misadventures based around their songs.
* ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'': A group of students investigate a haunting and other oddities at their boarding school.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019'': A child friendly CGI film adapting the comic strip about a creepy family in a creepy house.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'': Cheesebridge is a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. The only thing that its residents are more obsessed with is their [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight fear of the evil, murderous monsters that dwell in the sewers]]. At least, [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood that's the legend residents have always believed]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': A young aspiring musician enters the Land of the Dead and meets the spirits of his ancestors.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'': A stop-motion adaptation of the book. A young girl explores her house and discovers an alternate version of her home. It seems idealistic at first but is more ominous than it seems.
* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'': A Tim Burton movie about a man in an ArrangedMarriage who ends up accidentally engaged to an undead woman.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'': A Tim Burton film that tells the story about young Victor Frankenstein and his dog, a reanimated bull terrier named [[FrankensteinsMonster Sparky]]
* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'': Dracula owns a hotel for supernatural beings.
** ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania2'': Dracula's daughter Mavis and her boyfriend Johnny get married and have a seemingly human son. Drac wants to train Dennis to become a vampire.
** ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'': Dracula, his family, and his friends go on a monster cruise.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'': A trio of kids dealing with a monstrous living house.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': Films concerning the lives of the monsters hidden under the kids's beds and in the kids's closets.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': A Tim Burton film about a living skeleton from a Halloween-centric town who becomes enamored with Christmas and tries to usurp Santa. Due to its plot, it can be ''both'' a Halloween and Christmas film.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}'': A boy who can speak to the dead saves his town from zombies, ghosts, and witches.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'': Scooby and Shaggy are hired as gym teachers at a finishing school for monster girls.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'': Shaggy is turned into a werewolf by Count Dracula himself to compete in a race against other real, famous monsters.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': The first truly ''horror''-themed ''Scooby Doo'' work. Now in their 20s, Mystery Inc reunites to visit an island full of real zombies.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'': Mystery Inc encounter both an evil warlock and the eponymous ghost witch.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'': Scooby and Shaggy have to enter the world of magic to stop an evil magician-turned-sorcerer from turning everyone and everything on Earth into Halloween monsters.
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[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'': Films based on ''The Addams Family'' show, but DarkerAndEdgier like the original comics.
* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'': A Tim Burton film about Barbara and Adam Maitland, a loving young couple who die in a car accident and find themselves caught in the CelestialBureaucracy of the afterlife.
* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'': In which MadScience takes on occult terror, and wins, hilariously.
** ''Film/GhostbustersII'': A sequel to the original film that sees the Ghostbusters tackling a river of slime that thrives on negative emotions and the ghost of an ancient tyrant.
** ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'': A continuity reboot with an all-female team of Ghostbusters.
** ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'': An {{Unreboot}} sequel/spinoff to ''Ghostbusters II'' about a new team of Ghostbusters.
* ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'': The movie adaptation of ''Goosebumps'' is a 2015 horror/fantasy comedy. Stine and his daughter Hannah must combat every single one of Stine's creations after Zach and his friend Champ accidentally unleash them from the very books themselves.
* ''Film/{{Halloweentown}}'': A franchise which focuses on a parallel world filled with monsters. The dangers don't come from them (a majority of them are friendly and just live their lives like any human) but from the evil forces that try to take it over.
** ''Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge''
** ''Halloweentown High''
** ''Return to Halloweentown''
* ''Film/HocusPocus'': A 1993 [[HalloweenSpecial Halloween-themed]] Creator/{{Disney}} film [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "for kids"]]. Three kids have to fight for their lives against three homicidal witches hunting them.
* ''Film/TheLittleVampire'': A LiveActionAdaptation of the books. A young boy befriends a family of vampires.
* ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': A film based on the first three books. Three orphaned siblings get sent to live with their abusive distant relative who only wants their inheritance and is willing to resort to murder to get it.
* ''Film/ReturnToOz'': A TruerToTheText film based on the second and third ''Land of Oz'' books. Dorothy returns to Oz, only to be chased by monsters and nearly beheaded by an evil princess.
* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'': The Mystery Inc crew have to solve a mystery at a haunted island/resort.
** ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'': The Mystery Inc crew encounter real-life monsters based on their old enemies.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BaileySchoolKids'': Students keep getting new teachers and other authority figures who seem to be monsters and aliens.
* ''Literature/CampZombie'': Corey and Amanda head off to a summer camp at Camp Harvest Moon, a place with a reputedly questionable past. Strange events begin to occur.
* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'': A girl moves into her new house and finds another world hidden away inside the walls. She soon finds this alternate universe isn't as pleasant as seems.
* ''Literature/TheDemonHeadmaster'': The eponymous character wants to brainwash everybody to bring order to the world and shows a [[WouldHurtAChild willingness to kill children.]]
* ''Literature/EdgarAndEllen'': CreepyTwins cause mischief in their town.
* ''Literature/FungusTheBogeyman'': The life of a Bogeyman with the job of scaring humans.
* ''Literature/{{Ghostgirl}}'': A teenager chokes on a gumball, dies, and must now finish high school amongst other undead students.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'': Surreal stories about children who find themselves in scary situations.
* ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'': When a young boy's family is killed, he takes refuge in a graveyard. The dead there take him in, and dub him Nobody Owens (although his friends call him Bod).
* ''Literature/HocusPocusAndTheAllNewSequel'': A {{novelization}} and SpinOffspring of the film. A group of teenagers fight against evil witch sisters on Halloween.
* ''Literature/TheLittleVampire'': A book series about a boy who befriends a friendly vampire family.
* ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': While the stories may be scary for an eight-year old, older audiences will find them more cheesy than anything else. Instead, what makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]) are the illustrations that accompany them.
* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': A creepy series about the life of three siblings orphaned and sent to live with a malicious distant relative.
* ''Literature/ScaryGodmother'': Predominantly Haloween-themed stories about a girl who befriends monsters and the titular "Scary Godmother".
* ''Literature/VarjakPaw'': A kitten must save his family by venturing outside his home.
* ''Literature/WhichWitch'' is about witches in a contest to see who can perform the greatest feat of dark magic.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''Series/TheNewAddamsFamily'': The adventures of a wacky, morbid family.
* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': A children's horror show made by Creator/{{YTV}} in Canada and aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the U.S. The story revolved around a club of teenagers called the "Midnight Society" who meet around a campfire in the woods once a week to tell horror stories.
* ''Series/CaptainKangaroo'': Defied, as Bob Keeshan sought to create the most welcoming and wholesome early-morning children's show possible. However, his earliest shows had a suit of plate armor assembled around a mannequin as a set piece. This "metal man" proved to be unnerving to his audience, so Keeshan struck the armor from the set, never to be seen again.
* ''Series/DeadtimeStories'': In the new show, a babysitter shows up at the house of two kids to read them a "deadtime story", bringing them the actual physical books themselves. As she reads them the story, we then see the story itself play out, occasionally cutting back to the "real world" where the babysitter and kids interrupt and provide comments.
* ''Series/EerieIndiana'': Marshall Teller, a recent transplant from New Jersey whose family has just moved to the desolate town of Eerie, and Simon Holmes, an Eerie native, investigate the weirdness that inhabits the titular town.
* The television adaptation to ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'', which focuses on live action adaptations of the horror stories from the book series.
* ''The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein'': A SketchComedy series starring [[Creator/VincentPrice Vincent Price]], set in Castle Frightenstein in Frankenstone, featuring a vampire MadScientist and other monsters.
* ''Series/TheMunsters'': A MundaneFantastic DomCom that originally ran from 1964 to 1966 about a working class family of would-be monsters.
* ''Series/MysteryHunters'': An educational kid's show focusing on mysterious, scary, and occult things.
* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': Three children and their widowed father live in a lighthouse, which is WeirdnessMagnet for all kinds of bizarre, creepy, and supernatural events.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': A spin-off of ''Series/DoctorWho'' aimed at children and broadcast on a children's channel, but had some material that was as creepy as the original (most notoriously the story "Day of the [[MonsterClown Clown]]"). The main "kids" element was that it didn't have the original show's occasional DownerEnding tendency.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Spoofed via ShowWithinAShow. One sketch ("Der Lacheln Beherrscht" from the 2001 episode hosted by Creator/JuliaStiles) depicted a German kids' show with some rather terrifying imagery. The American kids in the audience react badly and the show's American broadcast is cancelled.
* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': A TruerToTheText series based on the books series. Three orphans are sent to a relative who abuses them and plots to steal their inheritance. After they escape him, he continues to pursue them, trying to capture the three and willing to murder anyone who gets in his way. All the while the orphans find out some dark secrets about their parents.
* ''Series/TruthOrScare'': A documentary series geared around supernatural events, cryptids, and creepy historical events.
* ''Series/YoungDracula'', about a thirteen year old immigrant from [[{{Uberwald}} somewhere unspecified in Eastern Europe]], whose family moves to a run-down castle in the British Isles, and who is quite appreciative of just being a normal kid in a normal [[TheGoodOldBritishComp secondary modern school]] where nothing ever happens. He ''really'' doesn't want to grow up to be a vampire.
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* Surprisingly enough, ''Music/CreatureFeature'' falls into this. Despite their usage of the words "Damn" and "Hell", their lyrics are mostly clean and most of their music is fun and upbeat, [[Main/LyricalDissonance even though the lyrics are quite dark and morbid]]. Both [[Main/PerkyGoth Curtis and Erik]] are very sweet in real life and most of their songs are influenced by their own twisted childhoods, including: Halloween, horror films, the great works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe and Creator/EdwardGorey and other ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight. They even have their own [[ComicBook/CreatureFeature comic book series]] for children ages 12 and up.
* The "Nightmare Revisited" album, which is a cover album of the score and songs from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s "Spooky Songs for Creepy Kids," especially since "Brains!" and "Land of The Dead" are from the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.
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* The kid-friendly version of ''Podcasts/RealGhostStoriesOnline'', which is a daily paranormal podcast featuring real, horrific ghost stories and other tales of the paranormal and supernatural.
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* ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'': A musical comedy adaptation of the above-mentioned ''Addams Family'', the plot revolves around Wednesday Addams, now a young woman, falling in love with a young man from a more conventional family and the culture clash that ensues.
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* ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'': Takes its visitors through a ghost filled haunted mansion and its cemetery with a heavy dose of humor.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* The ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' dolls: A series about supernatural beings and monsters going to high school.
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* ''VideoGame/AttackOfTheMutant'': A SilentProtagonist gets off the bus at a stop they didn't want to. Turns out this stop is the headquarters of the infamous supervillain, the Masked Mutant, who can transform into anything and anyone.
* ''VideoGame/EscapeFromHorrorland'': Set as a sort-of sequel to the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book "One Day at Horrorland". The player is the friend of Lizzie, a bossy young girl who was babysitting her brother, Luke, and his friend, Clay, for the night. Suddenly, cosmic forces transport the protagonists into a bizarre place called Horrorland. You need to rescue Luke and Clay and then [[TitleDrop escape from Horrorland]].
* ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'': Wherein a teenager has to save his girlfriend from a haunted house.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': The brother of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros everyone's favorite Italian plumber]] wins a haunted mansion in a contest he didn't enter and has to save his sibling by ridding the house of ghosts using a modified vacuum cleaner.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'': A sequel to the above, in which Luigi must bust ghosts and save his brother again through multiple mansions while chasing a ghost puppy.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'': Another sequel, in which Luigi must bust ghosts and save his brother for the third time inside a hotel.
* ''VideoGame/SorcerersLair'': A brother and sister duo explore a spooky mansion inhabited by a sorcerer.
* ''VideoGame/SpiritsAndSpells'': In which a pair of trick-or-treaters have to enter the land of the dead to save their friends.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': A {{mon}} series where a kid fights and befriends {{youkai}}.
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* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': A trio of [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Mystery Inc]]- style investigators encounter and are chased across Texas by a fiery ghost who turns out to be their group's missing fourth member, who they did not know was deceased.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': A Nickelodeon Klasky-Csupo series about three young monsters who attend a school to learn how to scare people.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily'': The 1973 and 1992 animated versions focus on a creepy family with macabre interests.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The premise is mostly about a boy and his shapeshifting dog having adventures in a oddball fantasy land. But a lot of the places they visit have some very morbid atmosphere where death is a very real possibility. Not to mention some horrfic creatures and imaginary they run into to the point it feels more like a {{Deconstruction}} of the fantasy genre.
* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' which has the Riverdale gang tangling with paranormal and extraterrestrial beings.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': A Tim Burton show. Meet Lydia Deetz, a PerkyGoth girl attending a private school in a sleepy little Connecticut town while trying to deal with her well-meaning but eccentric parents. One day she comes across Beetlejuice, the manic self-described "Ghost With the Most", who befriends her and whisks her off from her ordinary life into frequent adventures in the {{Cloudcuckooland}} world of the Neitherworld. Not to be confused with Tim Burton's film of the same name.
* ''WesternAnimation/BradysBeasts'': Monsters are commonplace and make popular household pets.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaspersScareSchool'': A 2009 animated series based on the CGI film Casper's Scare School starring WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost.
* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'': A cartoon about a vampire duck.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': A series about the [[NervousWreck nervous]] but [[CowardlyLion courageous]] titular dog who constantly has to deal with creepy creatures, hostile people, and weird phenomena to protect himself and his owners in [[TownWithADarkSecret The Middle of Nowhere]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': While a superhero show, it also deals with ghosts and can get pretty scary sometimes.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrakPack'': Starring Frankie, Howler, and Drak Jr., three teenage boys who are capable of turning into a Frankenstein's Monster, a Werewolf, and a Vampire.
* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'': A sequel series of ''The Real Ghostbusters''. This version lives up to its namesake as it focuses more heavily on the darker aspects of the series with the new team of Ghostbusters fighting terrifying monsters and horrors. The team is put in danger much more frequently than in the original, to the point of being nearly killed in a few cases. The tone is a bit more cynical as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/FrankensteinsCat'': Based on a children's book by Curtis Jobling, ''Frankenstein's Cat'' is centered around Doctor Frankenstein's first experiment; a cat is created by the Doctor out of nine different cats, leading to his name being Nine.
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': The cartoon version is a sequel to the original live action series. While that one has light-hearted and silly villains, here the ghosts are slightly more malicious leading to a few tense moments.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'': A Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon set in a school where [[AllGhoulsSchool the pupils and staff]] are [[MonsterMash an assortment of monsters]], except for TokenHuman teacher [[Creator/RickMoranis Mr. Schneider]].
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Twins move in with their great uncle in a TownWithADarkSecret. It's the closest to Lovecraftian Horror that Disney can get while still being a children's show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': The GrimReaper walks around with two weird (in their own ways) kids. Supernatural events and creatures appear in every episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids'': A British {{Nightmare Fuel}}led SpaceWhaleAesop animated series, narrated by host Nigel Planer.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': The show is about three young protagonists going up against creatures like trolls, ghosts, giants, nightmare spirits, and a big black dog with glowing eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTheSeries'': An animated prequel series to the ''Hotel Transylvania'' films that focuses on Mavis and her monster friends.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': The show is about an AmusingAlien attempting to conquer Earth. The show was short-lived due to its disturbing content, but it has a cult fanbase.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}}'': Animated adaptation of the live action movie that veers into its own AlternateContinuity where the majority of the series takes place within the board game and EverythingTryingToKillYou is in full effect for the protagonists.
* ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'': NaiveNewcomer Charlotte thinks she can befriend Vendetta, a horrid little girl who makes monsters, or fiends, through baking. Vendetta cannot stand Charlotte's happy-go-lucky nature, and will often go to great lengths to destroy Charlotte (or at least get her out of the way for a little bit).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': Despite the premise of a seafaring adventure, the series has plenty of creepy episodes, imagery and moments.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonaTheVampire'': A little girl imagines herself as a vampire superhero and regularly confronts supernatural monsters along with her two best friends.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': Brothers travel through a mysterious forest while stalked by a horrifying beast.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The series centers around witches and demons in The Boiling Isles, a land brimming with all sorts of strange and horrific creatures. The main characters are a witch who [[spoiler: transforms into a monster if she doesn't drink a special potion]], a demon with a skull head, and a human NightmareFetishist.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': An AlternateUniverse of the film that explores more of the spooky vibe of the original movie. The heroes tend to fight a lot of paranormal demons and EldritchAbomination with the usual odd DemonicPossession here and there. While it does try to downplay it with the jokes, it doesn't make it any less scary (unless you count [[SeasonalRot the later seasons]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/RottingHills'': A boy moves to a town populated by zombies.
* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'': The show is about a bunch of monster kids living in a dark mansion on the outskirts of a {{Halloweentown}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScaryGodmother'': Two Halloween specials where a girl befriends friendly monsters.
*''WesternAnimation/SchoolForVampires'': A German/Italian horror-comedy children's animated television series, which, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin not surprisingly]], centers around a group of vampire children learning everything that a vampire needs to know at the School for Vampires.
* The ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' franchise: One of the oldest examples. A group of teenagers wander around the country (or even the world) and constantly stumble upon monsters and ghosts. Usually this is a [[ScoobyDooHoax hoax]], but some incarnations have the gang stumble onto the real deal.
* ''WesternAnimation/SkeletonWarriors'': A sci-fi version of the terrible army of the dead sweeping the world.
* ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheCryptkeeper'': A LighterAndSofter animated spin-off of the horror series Series/TalesFromTheCrypt with kids as the main characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTrapDoor'': A claymation show where a blob creature, a bug and a talking skull deal with monsters coming from under the titular trap door.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tutenstein}}'': An educational cartoon about a girl who befriends the mummy of a pharaoh.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'': A Creator/DisneyJunior series about a friendly family of vampires.
* ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'': Two half-brothers encounter various, predominantly Mexican, supernatural beings in their hometown.
* ''WesternAnimation/ZombieHotel'': A cartoon about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a hotel run by zombies]].
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