Graveyard Girls Books in Order

Graveyard Girls is Lisi Harrison in spooky mode, with Daniel Kraus helping make the shadows a little stranger. The series follows five friends from Misery Falls, Oregon: Whisper, Frannie, Sophie, Gemma, and Zuzu. Their town is already buzzing over the anniversary of notorious killer Silas Hoke when a mysterious text pulls them to the cemetery at night.

That is where things start getting weird.

The girls do not walk into a polished fantasy world or a grand supernatural quest. They walk into a small-town mystery full of bad vibes, old stories, and the creeping sense that something in Misery Falls is not done with the living. A surprise storyteller at the cemetery helps spark the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls, and from there the books mix eerie tales, local legend, and very real middle-school friendship problems.

One of the nicest things about the series is the balance. These books want to scare you, but they also care about how friend groups work. The girls bicker, drift, reconnect, hide things, and misread each other in believable ways. That means the supernatural plot never floats off by itself. The ghostly clues and sinister messages land harder because they are happening to kids who are already dealing with school, family stress, jealousy, embarrassment, and the fear of being the odd one out.

Misery Falls is a strong setting too. It feels like the kind of town where old crimes never really stay buried and where local events can take on a weird life of their own. Silas Hoke is more than a bit of backstory. His legacy keeps pushing into the present, and the girls keep discovering that the town's creepiness is tied to something bigger than one scary night in a cemetery.

The tone sits in a sweet spot between creepy and approachable. There are chills, cliffhangers, cursed objects, strange messages, and the kind of scenes that make a flashlight feel like a good idea. But there is also humor, tenderness, and a lot of energy around the girls as a group. The books are not trying to crush the reader. They are trying to keep you turning pages with one eye over your shoulder.

If you want a middle grade series that blends friendship drama, small-town mystery, and horror that is spooky without going too dark, Graveyard Girls is a very inviting place to start. It feels like a campfire story that keeps leaking into real life, which is exactly the right tone for a series about girls who tell scary stories and then have to live inside one.