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Teen Horror Fiction
Teen Reads

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.

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.

Freeze Tag by Caroline Cooney
When Meghan and West first played Freeze Tag with Lannie, it was no ordinary game. Because when Lannie tagged someone, they really froze. Icy blue and cold. Like death.Now Meghan, West, and Lannie are in high school, and Meghan and West are in love. They're the perfect couple. But Lannie is determined to have West for her very own... and if she doesn't get her way, she'll freeze Meghan... to death.

Don’t Look Behind You by Lois Duncan
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.



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.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Madness

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

Being Dead: Stories by Vivian Vande Velde

Shades of Darkness: More of the Ghostly Best Stories of Robert Westall



SERIES

Gemma Doyle series 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

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

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

Blue is for Nightmares 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



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

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.



NON-FICTION

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

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


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