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Teen Horror

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  • "When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game"--
    Book, 2021New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2021. — Fiction Douglass
  • Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who…
    Book, 2020New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — T CES
  • Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe's plans to escape his foster family, begin classes at the prestigious new university, and marry his beloved Elmira Royster go awry when a macabre Muse appears with a request.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Amulet Books, 2019. — Fiction Winters
  • Iris and Vivi work to uncover their dark, dangerous, and possibly magical past when their older sister Grey goes missing.
    Book, 2021New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2021] — Fiction Sutherland
  • Charity has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, The Curse of Camp Mirror…
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2023. — Fiction Bayron
  • Returning to Maine after years at boarding school, Eleanor Zarrin barely remembers her monstrous family, but she sets off a series of events that could destroy them all.
    Book, 2021New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2021. — YADULT FICTION SZA
  • In the late 1950s in the Midwest, a serial killer has been draining their victims of blood, leaving them otherwise undisturbed in their cars and homes. When a fifteen-year-old girl is found covered in blood amidst the latest corpses, she confides…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, [2021] — TEEN FICTION BLA
  • Hawaii-born Makani Young's new life in Nebraska is thrown into chaos when a serial killer begins to target her fellow high school students. "It's been almost a year since Makani Young came to live with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska, and…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017] — T FICTION PERKINS STEPHANIE
  • Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the innocent ghosts of the murdered-dead and taking the lives of killers with the vengeance they are due, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen with the series of intricate tattoos is…
    Book, 2014Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2014] — YADULT FICTION CHU
  • Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs--interdimensional parasites who feast on human emotions like sadness and anger. Masquerading as a prim and proper ladies'…
    Book, 2022New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — T FICTION ANDERSON LILY
  • Believing her new home to actually be alive, especially when her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won't be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — Fiction Jackson
  • Two years ago, a small percentage of population underwent a transformation known as the Hollowing. Those affected were only able to survive by consuming human flesh. The people who went without quickly became feral, turning on their friends and…
    Book, 2023Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks, [2023] — T FICTION COTTINGHAM KAYLA
  • Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
    Book, 1973Boston : Little Brown, [1973] — T Mystery DUN
  • After new student Cassandra Heaven joins seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl's babysitters club, the girls learn that being a babysitter really means a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from evil.
    Book, 2019New York : Delacorte Press, [2019] — Fiction Williams
  • Faolan Kelly’s grandfather is dead. She’s alone in the world and suddenly homeless, all because the local powers that be don’t think a young man of seventeen is mature enough to take over his grandfather’s homestead…and that’s with them thinking…
    Book, 2024New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2024. — YA F McB
  • The White Guy Dies First

    13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

    Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals, impossible slashers, and the dead who don’t stay dead.... A museum curator who despises “diasporic inaccuracies.” A sweet girl and her diary of happy thoughts. An…
    Book, 2024New York : Tor Teen, 2024. — jF WHITE YA
  • Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him,…
    Book, 2022Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, 2022. — T Fiction Whi
  • Our Shadows Have Claws

    15 Latin American Monster Stories

    "Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends"--
    Book, 2022Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin, 2022. — TEEN FIC Our
  • Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts.
    Book, 2019New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019. — Fiction Rothenberg
  • His Hideous Heart

    Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

    Thirteen of Poe's terrifying works are reimagined in new and unexpected ways for modern readers. Poe's own stories are included, so readers can compare.
    Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, 2019. — Fiction His