Blue Is for Nightmares is a young adult mystery novel and subsequent eponymous series by Laurie Faria Stolarz.

Stacey uses her folk magic to enhance her natural abilities in order to investigate crimes, disappearances, or issues that arise in her daily life.

As the series progresses Stacey graduates from high school, learns how to better harness her abilities, and sorts through her complicated love life.

Stacey Brown, a 16-year-old Junior at Hillcrest Boarding School, is a hereditary folk magic practitioner through her grandmother.

Stacey wants to have a normal high school experience, but all that is hindered when she starts having terrifying nightmares about the death of her best friend and roommate, Drea.

Suspicions first settle on a strange man in the garden who turns out to be the father of her arch enemy, Veronica, then her secret crush (and Drea's boyfriend) Chad, then his roommate Donovan, then their friend P.J.

Stacey should be focusing on her classes and getting into college, not to mention her rocky love life with Chad, but she just can't ignore the dreams and secretive notes.

This time, they don't warn her about horrific outcome, and a disaster beyond her worst nightmares that will haunt her for life, that she never even saw coming.

[4] The Berks County Reading Eagle praised both Blue is for Nightmares and White is for Magic, citing that having the Stacey go "through issues that teens deal with today" as one of the highlights of the book.

[5][6] Of Blue is for Nightmares, the Free Lance Star wrote that the book was "worth reading, especially if you have an interest in witchcraft".