Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick is $1.99 at Amazon US.
This book was originally published by Scholastic as part of their Point Horror line of teen horror books, so don't expect anything too gruesome. But the book does sound fun.
I was too old to pay attention to the Point Horror novels when they were being released. I likely would have devoured them.
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A young girl is forced to move into a broken-down house in the country—and she and her new stepbrother discover its hidden horrors . . .
Martha wants to be happy for her father. She likes his new wife—even if she’s a terrible cook—but she doesn’t understand why they had to leave Chicago and move to this horrible house in the country. It’s big, broken-down, and miles from anywhere, alone in the woods with nothing on the property but an overgrown cemetery. But at night it doesn’t feel empty. Conor—her new, weird stepbrother—chose Martha’s new room for her. It’s dark and drafty, and no matter how she tries to fix it up, she can’t sleep easily there. At night, whispers come from the closet, filling Martha with a sense that something terrible happened here. She’s right. Not long ago, the house was the site of a gruesome murder. When Conor and Martha’s parents leave town on their honeymoon, the two teens will find out why the dead don’t rest easy at the old Bedford house.
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Here's the original cover
