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Campfire Sarles, Shawn Y SAR Sixteen-year-old Mad- die's camping trip with family and friends in a remote mountain loca- tion turns deadly as stories told around the campfire begin com- ing true. The Graces Eve, Laure Y EVE When a glamorous family of teenage witches brings a mysterious new girl into their fold, they unwittingly nurture a powerful black magic that could destroy Horror them all. Fenrin, Thalia, and Summer Grace are capti- vating, wealthy, and glamorous. They’ve managed to cast a spell over not just their high school but also their entire town—and they’re rumored to have powerful connections all over the world. Especially River: the loner, new girl at school. She’s different from her peers, who both revere and fear the Grace family. She wants to be a Grace more than anything. But what the Graces don’t know is that River’s pres- Books ence in town is no accident. Anna Dressed in Blood Blake, Kendare Y BLA Cas Lowood is a ghost hunter: a loner who travels the country and rids towns of ghosts. Anna is the deadly ghost of a mur- for Teens dered girl who kills everyone who enters the home she haunts — except for Cas. A great tale for haunted house lovers. Creepily crafted for The Replacement Yovanoff, Brenna Y YOV the spooktacular 16 year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant and when a Grapevine Public Library. friend’s sister disappears he goes against his family’s and town’s deliberate denial of the problem to con- front the beings that dwell under the town, tampering Modified 8/21/2018 with human lives. A Monster Calls Dread Nation Before I Let Go Ness, Patrick Ireland, Justina Nijkamp, Marieke Y NES Y IRE Y NIJ When families go missing in Balti- Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a The existence of Vours, super- more County, Jane McKeene, who is monster outside his bedroom window, but not the natural creatures who studying to become an Attendant, one from the recurring nightmare that began when his feast on fear and attack finds herself in the middle of a con- mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that on the eve of the winter spiracy that has her fighting for her wants him to face truth and loss. solstice, becomes a terrifying life against powerful enemies. reality for fifteen-year-old Reg- The Killer in Me gie when she begins to suspect The Diviners Harrison, Margot that her timid Bray, Libba Y HAR younger brother might be one of their victims. Y BRA Nina Barrows knows all about Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is the Thief. She's intimately City of Ghosts thrilled when she is exiled from small- familiar with his hunting Schwab, Victoria town Ohio to New York City in 1926, methods: how he stalks and Y SCH even when a rash of occult-based mur- kills at random, how he dis- Cassidy Blake's parents are The Inspectres, a ghost- ders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator poses of his victims' bodies in hunting team. But Cass can REALLY see ghosts. Her of The Museum of American Folklore, an abandoned mine in the best friend, Jacob, just happens to be one. When Superstition, deepest part of a desert. With they head to Edinburgh, Scotland, for their new TV and the Occult, into the thick the help of her former best show, Cass and Jacob come along. In Scotland, Cass of the investigation. friend, Warren, she tracks the is surrounded by ghosts. Then she meets Lara, a girl Thief two thousand miles, to his home turf-the de- who can also see the dead. But Lara tells Cassidy Scream and Scream Again! serts of New Mexico. But the man she meets there seems nothing like the brutal sociopath with whom their job is to send ghosts beyond the Veil. Cass isn't Stine, RL she's had a disturbing connection her whole life. As sure about her new mission, but she does know the Y STI Nina spends more time with him, she begins to sinister Red Raven haunting the city doesn't belong R.L. Stine—the godfather of Goose- doubt the truth she once held as certain: Dylan Shad- in her world. Cassidy's powers will draw her into an bumps—and some of the most popu- well is the Thief. She even starts to wonder what if epic fight that stretches through the worlds of the lar authors today bring an unrivaled there is no Thief? living and the dead, in order to save herself. mastery of all things fearsome, fright- ening, and fantabulous to this terrifying anthology of all- The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein new scary short stories. It’s full of twists and turns, dark Contagion corners, and devilish revenge. White, Kiersten Y WHI Bowman, Erin Y BOW Stalking Jack the Ripper Elizabeth’s thin arms are covered with bruises from her "caregiver," and she is on the verge of being After receiving a distress call Maniscalco, Kerri thrown into the streets until she is brought to the from a drill team on a distant Y MAN home of Victor Frankenstein a boy who has every- planet, a skeleton crew is sent A gothic murder mystery set in gritty thing--except a friend. Elizabeth does everything she into deep space to perform a Victorian-era London, where an intrep- can to make herself indispensable--and it works. As standard search-and-rescue mis- id society girl finds herself embroiled the years pass, Elizabeth's survival depends on man- sion. When they arrive, they find in the investigation of a serial killer aging Victor's dangerous temper and entertaining the planet littered with the re- known as Jack the Ripper. his every whim, no matter how depraved. Behind her mains of the project--including blue eyes and sweet smile lies the calculating heart its members' dead bodies. As of a girl determined to stay alive no matter the cost. they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready to awaken. .