Even if you find your kid’s reading choices repulsive and scary, at least they’re reading.

Arlene Lopardo, a clerk at the Marian J. Mohr Library in Johnston, started saving bits from the trash and transformed them into a miniature haunted house.

She gathered some of the library’s scarier works, borrowing books from the donation bins, and arranged them at the base of the tiny house.

“A book a day keeps the monsters away,” Lopardo said as she lit tiny battery-powered votive candles and placed them in the little rooms.

She made shrunken cookies out of dried lentils. A table from a coffee creamer cap. Carpets and tapestries from old library due date slips.

Stop into the library at 1 Memorial Ave. to enter Lopardo’s spooky little world. She hopes you’ll borrow a scary story, take it home and use it to keep the monsters away.