Top 5 Spooky Parodies of Classic Children's Books

It's Halloween and that means candy, punny costumes, and hearing 'Monster Mash' every 10 minutes on the radio.  If you're looking to inject some literature into your Halloween, look no further than these five positively terrifying parodies of classic children's books.

5. The Runaway Mummy

by Michael Rex, Puffin Books, $6.99, ISBN: 9780142421215, Paperback

Once there was a little mummy who wanted to run away,

"If you run away," said Mother Mummy, "I will get you! For you are my

rotten little mummy!"

"If you try and get me," said the little mummy, "I will turn into a

sea monster that lurks at the bottom of the sea."

4. The Very Hungry Zombie

by Michael Teitelbaum, Skyhorse Publishing, $14.95, ISBN: 9781620871829, Hardcover

A blood-red moon shown

down on a corpse that lay

rotting beneath the ground.

At the crack of dawn, on a Sunday morning, 

out of a grave crawled a

horrifically hungry zombie.

He started to hunt for fresh, juicy 

humans to snack on.

On Monday, he devoured one astronaut.

But he found himself in a gaseous atmosphere.

3. Goodnight Goon

by Michael Rex, G. P. Putnam's Books for Young Readers, $15.99, ISBN: 9780399245345, Hardcover

Good night skull

And good night shoe

Goodnight creature

Goodnight goo

And goodnight to the old werewolf hollering "Boo."

2. Frankenstein

by Rick Walton, Feitwel & Friends, $14.99, ISBN: 9780312553661, Hardcover

In a creepy old castle

all covered with spines,

lived twelve ugly monsters in two crooked lines.

1. Pat the Zombie

by Aaron Ximm, Ten Speed Press, $11.99, ISBN: 9781607740360, Paperback

Judy can gut the zombie.

Now YOU gut the zombie.

Paul can search the remains,

Now YOU search the remains.