Werewolves, Witches, Ghosts, and Demons, Oh, My!

Clay by David Almond
The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers.

Savage by David Almond
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.

Demonkeeper by Royce Buckingham
When Nat, the weirdest boy in Seattle, leaves for a date with the plainest girl in town, chaos breaks out in the houseful of demons of which he is the sole guardian.

The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven
When his best friend, Charlie, is possessed by an ancient demon, fourteen-year-old Jack,
accompanied by a girl with superhuman powers, battles all over London and into Hell to save him.

Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other
denizens of the graveyard.

The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs by Jack Gantos
A young woman named Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her small western Pennsylvania town when she was seven years old and learned a surprising secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh curse of having excessive love for one's mother.

My Father the Werewolf by Henry Garfield
Teenagers Miranda and Danny move to Maine to be near a deserted island where their werewolf father can isolate himself during full moons, but when the ocean freezes and creates a path to the populated mainland, they resort to desperate measures to save the townspeople from their transformed parent.

Soulless by Christopher Golden
The attempt of three powerful mediums to open up communication between the living and the dead has disastrous consequences when every corpse within a three-hundred-mile radius of New York City is animated and begins to prey on the living.

Gone by Michael Grant
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz
After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right.

Need by Carrie Jones
Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.

Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

The Otherworldlies by Jennifer Anne Kogler
Eccentric and unusual looking, twelve year-old Fern, secure in her family's love and acceptance, has always been able to cope with the taunts and social ostracism of her schoolmates until a series of unnerving events reveal that she possesses supernatural powers that she barely understands and must learn to control if she is to escape being the pawn of two ancient enemies.

Werewolf Rising by R.L. La Fevers
Just before his thirteenth birthday, an uncle he never knew takes Luc deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, where he learns that he is a werewolf whose pack is in danger from fanatics who are following his trail.

Marly’s Ghost: A Remix of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol by David Levithan
The spirit of Ben's girlfriend Marly returns with three other ghosts to haunt him with a painful journey though Valentine's Days past, present, and future.

The Demon Queen by Richard Lewis
After being wrongfully held for months by Homeland Security in his hometown of Los Angeles, fourteen-year-old Jesse, who knows little of his true identity, tries to keep a low profile in his new foster home in a small midwestern prairie town but the arrival of an eccentric new girl with
seemingly supernatural powers draws him inexorably into a struggle with the terrifying forces of evil.

Hellbent by Anthony McGowan
Having been run over by an ice cream truck, sixteen-year-old Conor tries to figure out what he did that condemned him to Hell, and how to swap his personalized torment for the "torture" of popular music, women, and video games.

Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish
When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently establishes a relationship with a tormented, malevolent spirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.

Rhymes With Witches by Lauren Myracle
High school freshman Jane believes that she would do anything to be popular until she is selected to be in the school's most exclusive clique and learns that popularity has a price.

Daemon Hall by Andrew Nance
Famous horror story writer Ian Tremblin comes to the town of Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying--and deadly--night with him in a haunted house.

Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
Ava can't see or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear his voice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she's crazy, but she knows he's here. Jackson. The boy Ava thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. He's back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds.

The Dark Flight Down by Marcus Sedgwick
On an errand for Kepler, his new master, Boy is captured and imprisoned in the palace dungeon, where he plots his escape from the evil Maxim and the lunatic King Frederick but also learns a disturbing secret about his father.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

The Boy Who Couldn’t Die by William Sleator
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.

Hell Phone by William Sleator
Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but strange and desperate people keep calling--one of them a denizen of Hell--begging for or demanding his help.

Betwixt by Tara Smith
Three alienated teenagers are drawn to a strange outdoor concert in the woods outside of Seattle, where they discover that they possess magical powers and that their destinies are
intertwined.

Doppelganger by David Stahler
When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz
When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep
occurring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and,
ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.

Generation Dead by Dan Waters
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed.

Night of the Bat by Paul Zindel
Teenage Jake joins his father on an expedition to study bats in the Brazilian rain forest and finds the project menaced by a giant brain-eating bat.

Rats by Paul Zindel
When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.

SERIES

Darkest Powers by Kelley Armstrong
1. Summoning
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its
inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.
2. Awakening (April 2009)

Darkside by Tom Becker
1. Darkside
Jonathan Starling's father is in an asylum and his home has been attacked when, while running away from kidnappers, he stumbles upon Darkside, a terrifying and hidden part of London ruled by the descendents of Jack the Ripper, where Jonathan is in mortal danger if he cannot find the way out.
2. Lifeblood

Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray
1. A Great and Terrible Beauty
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
2. Rebel Angels
3. A Sweet Far Thing

Exorsistah by Claudia Mair Burney
Seventeen-year-old Emme Vaughn, a homeless girl who can see demons, has a chance to do God's work by assisting a disgraced priest, a nun, and handsome Francis Rivers in performing
exorcisms, but must first battle her personal demons, lack of discipline, and teen hormones.
1. Exorsistah: X Returns (September 2009)

Maggie Quinn: Girl vs Evil by Rosemary Clement-Moore
1. Prom Dates From Hell
High school senior and yearbook photographer Maggie thought she would rather die than go to prom, but when a classmate summons a revenge-seeking demon, she has no choice but to buy herself a dress and prepare to face jocks, cheerleaders, and Evil Incarnate.
2. Hell Week
3. Highway to Hell (March 2009)

The Wereling by Stephen Cole
1. Wounded
Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family--and fight becoming werewolves themselves--by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure.
2. Prey
3. Resurrection

Daughters of the Moon by Lynne Ewing
1. Goddess of the Night
2. Into the Cold Fire
3. Night Shade
4. The Secret Scroll
5. The Sacrifice
6. The Lost One
7. Moon Demon
8. Possession
9. The Choice
10. The Talisman
11. The Prophecy
12. The Becoming
13. The Final Eclipse

Sisters of Isis by Lynne Ewing
1. The Summoning
2. Divine One
3. Enchantress
4. The Haunting

Sons of the Dark by Lynne Ewing
1. Barbarian
2. Escape
3. Outcast
4. Night Sun

Wicked by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguié
1. Witch & Curse
2. Legacy & Spellbound
3. Resurrection (July 2009)

Forbidden Doors series by Bill Myers
1. Dark Power Collection
2. Invisible Terror Collection
3. Deadly Loyalty Collection
4. Ancient Forces Collection

Magic in Manhatten by Sarah Mlynowski
1. Bras & Broomsticks
Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding.
2. Frogs & French Kisses
3. Spells & Sleeping Bags
4. Parties & Potions

The Wicked Dead by Stefan Petrucha
1. Lurker
2. Torn
3. Snared
4. Crush
5. Prey

Demonata series by Darren Shan
1. Lord Loss
Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.
2. Demon Thief
3. Slawter
4. Bec
5. Blood Beast
6. Demon Apocalypse
7. Death's Shadow
8. Wolf Island (May 2009)

Dead Girl series by Linda Joy Singleton
1. Dead Girl Walking
When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by a truck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with serious
problems.
2. Dead Girl Dancing (March 2009)

The Seer by Linda Joy Singleton
1. Don’t Die Dragonfly
Sabine tries to ignore the psychic abilities that she shares with her grandmother, but when she discovers that a classmate is in real danger she is compelled to follow her spirit guide.
2. Last Dance
3. Witch Ball
4. Sword Play
5. Fatal Charm

The Secret Circle by LJ Smith
1. The Initiation and The Captive
2. The Captive part II and The Power

The Daughers of Destiny by Jenna Solitare
1. Keeper of the Winds
After the death of her last known relative, Jenna discovers a mysterious board in her attic and learns from Simon, who works for the Vatican, that she is a "Keeper," with powers and a destiny inherited from her grandmother.
2. Keeper of the Water
3. Keeper of the Flames
4. Keeper of the Earth

Lily Dale by Wendi Corsi Staub
1. Awakening
When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother
suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist
community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some
psychic abilities.
2. Believing
3. Connecting

Stacey Brown series by Laurie Faria Stolarz
1. Blue is for Nightmares
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has
nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.
2. White is for Magic
3. Silver is for Secrets
4. Red is for Remembrance

Balefire by Cate Tiernan
1. A Chalice of Wind
2. A Circle of Ashes
3. A Feather of Stone
4. A Necklace of Water

Sweep by Cate Tiernan
1. Book of Shadows
2. The Coven
3. Blood Witch
4. Dark Magick
5. Awakening
6. Spellbound
7. The Calling
8. Changeling
9. Strife
10. Seeker
11. Origins
12. Eclipse
13. Reckoning (March 2009)
14. Full Circle (March 2009)
15. Night’s Child (July 2009)

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Petshop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino Vol 1-10
Welcome to Chinatown! during your visit, be sure to stop by Count D's pet shop, where love and dreams are sold in the form of mythical creatures - but not without a catch. The buyer must adhere to a set of rules, which if broken, may result in death...or worse.

Lenore “The Cute Little Dead Girl” by Roman Dirge
1. Noogies
2. Wedgies
3. Cooties

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
1. Preludes and Nocturns
2. The Doll’s House
3. Dream Country
4. Seasons of Mist
5. A Game of You
6. Fables, Reflections
7. Brief Lives
8. World’s End
9. The Kindly Ones
10. The Wake
Endless Nights

Courtney Crumrin series by Ted Naifeh
1. Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things
Courtney's parents have dragged her out to a high-to-do suburb to live with her creepy Great Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old house. She's not only the new kid in school, but she also discovers strange things lurking under her bed.
2. Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics
3. Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom

30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

The Crow by James O’Barr

Dead High Yearbook by Ivan Velez
Famous horror story writer Ian Tremblin comes to the town of Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying--and deadly--night with him in a haunted house.

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

Prom Nights From Hell
Collection of short stories by Meg Cabot, Lauren Myracle, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe, & Stephenie Meyer.

Ghost Stories chosen by Robert Westall

Ghostwise: A Book of Midnight Stories edited by Dan Yashinsky

Horowitz Horror by Anthony Horowitz

More Horowitz Horror by Anthony Horowitz

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones
Includes a story by Neil Gaiman.

Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan

Pretty Monsters: stories by Kelly Link

Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales edited by Deborah Noyes
Includes stories by Vivian Vande Velde, M.T. Anderson, Neil Gaiman, Gregory Maguire, Celia Rees, and Garth Nix.

The Restless Dead: ten original stories of the supernatural edited by Deborah Noyes
Includes tales by Kelly Link, Chris Wooding, Annette Curtis Klause, Marcus Sedgwick, Herbie Brennan, Libba Bray, M.T. Anderson, and Holly Black.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Madness

The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic

Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales by Neil Shusterman

666: The Number of the Beast
Includes tales by Peter Abrahams, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Melissa de la Cruz, and Ellen Schreiber.

All Hallow's Eve: 13 Stories by Vivian Vande Velde

Being Dead: Stories by Vivian Vande Velde

NON-FICTION

001.9 Gee (YA)
Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth! About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters and More by Joshua Gee

306.9 Noyes (YA)
Encyclopedia of the End: mysterious death in fact, fancy, folklore, and more by Deborah Noyes

398.2097 Brunvand (YA)
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: the Book of Scary Urban Legends collected by Jan Harold Brunvand

398.2097 Brunvand (YA)
Too Good To Be True: the Colossal Book of Urban Legends collected by Jan Harold Brunvand
A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

398.2454 Slade (YA)
Monsterology: The Fabulous Lives of the Creepy, The Revolting, and the Undead by Arthur Slade

398.25 Schwartz (YA)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

791 Grahame (YA)
How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills by Seth Grahame-Smith

813.54 Slade (YA)
Villainology: Fabulous Lives of the Big, the Bad, and the Wicked by Arthur Slade