An Eyeball in My Garden: And Other Spine-Tingling Poems

Readers should be prepared to shiver and shake through these 44 poems about ghosts, gargoyles, and more. Olander adorns each page with ominous ink images of spiders, monsters, and other terrors, while the verses temper horror (Craig W. Steele's "Where Nightmares Dwell": "I know too well/ What creatures lurk/ Where nightmares live and grow.../ The shadows found me years ago!") with humor (Stella Michel's "Mummy's Menu" includes "Blackened pudding filled with flies,/ Crispy scarab beetle pies"). Whether it's Halloween or not, this creepy collection will please readers with a taste for the supernatural. Ages 9–12. (Aug.)