Horror Stories Teen Fiction Suggested Reading List Titles located in YA Fiction or YA paperbacks by the author’s last name *Series Shutter by Courtney Alameda Micheline is a tetrachromat, able to see ghosts in Fear: 13 Stories of Suspense and Horror color and capture them on film, but when a routine Thirteen blood-chilling stories from true masters hunt goes awry, she is infected with a curse known of suspense, where nothing is what it seems, and as a soulchain and if she is unable to exorcise the no one is safe. (Grades 7+) entity in 7 days, she will be destroyed, body and soul. (Grades 8+) Bad Girls Don’t Die* by Katie Alender When Lexi's sister begins behaving strangely and Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales their house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi Vampires, ghosts, witches, and haunted houses investigates and discovers some facts about the are featured in this compilation of frightening tales. previous occupants of the house that lead her to (Grades 7+) believe that danger threatens. (Grades 7+) Spellcaster by Claudia Gray Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake After moving to Captive's Sound, Nadia, who can For three years, 17 year old Cas has carried on his tell that the town is under an evil spell, meets father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, Mateo, whose cursed dreams predict the future, and but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl they must work together to prevent an impending unlike any ghost he has faced before. (Grades 9+) disaster that threatens the entire town. (Grades 8+) The Enemy by Charlie Higson Nevermore by Kelly Creagh After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into When cheerleader Isobel is assigned to work with brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a Goth and Edgar Allen Poe fan Varen on an English group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out project, she is swept into a horrific dream world on a harrowing journey across London to the safe that he has created in his mind. (Grades 9+) haven of Buckingham Palace. (Grades 7+) The Devouring by Simon Holt Revenge of the Witch* by Joseph Delaney The existence of Vours, supernatural creatures who Young Tom, the 7th son of a 7th son, starts work feast on fear and attack on the eve of the Winter as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job Solstice, becomes a terrifying reality for Reggie is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, when she begins to suspect that her younger brother and all manner of wicked beasties." (Grades 7+) is one of their victims. (Grades 7+) Blood Ninja by Nick Lake Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his In an alternate 19th century Philadelphia, Eleanor life, Taro discovers the connection between ninjas sets out to rescue her brother, who seems to have and vampires and finds himself being dragged into been captured by an evil necromancer in control of a bitter conflict between the rival lords ruling Japan. an army of Undead. (Grades 8+) (Grades 7+) The Demon Queen by Richard Lewis The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Young Jesse, who knows little of his true identity, Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers tries to keep a low profile in his new foster home, and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is but the arrival of an eccentric new girl with seemingly terrorizing her town, and although her best friend supernatural powers draws him into a struggle with and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her the forces of evil. (Grades 7+) safe, she becomes a target. (Grades 7+) Possess by Gretchen McNeil I know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan Enlisted to help in dangerous cases of demonic Four teenagers try to conceal their responsibility possession, a teenaged exorcist discovers a race for a hit-and-run accident while being pursued by a of part-demons intent on raising their forefathers mystery figure seeking revenge. (Grades 8+) to the earth in human form. (Grades 9+) Horror, pp. 2 Bliss by Lauren Myracle Lord Loss* by Darren Shan Californian Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta The only witness to the horrific and bloody murder world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes only the mental health professionals determined to her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only the occult. (Grades 9+) he can see. (Grades 9+) Killing Britney by Sean Olin After transforming herself into one of the most The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepard popular girls in school, tragedy leads Britney to think Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her that the so-called accidental deaths of her mother and estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, boyfriend may have something to do with a jealous medical horrors, and a love triangle. (Grades 9+) schoolmate. (Grades 7+) Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck Everlost* by Neal Shusterman Kerry is overjoyed when 3 popular senior girls pick When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they her to be in their clique, until a shocking accident end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where sets off a string of supernatural occurrences that although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing- become more and more threatening. (Grades 8+) -even skinjacking--to break free. (Grades 7+) The Death Collector by Justin Richards The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts After barely escaping an attempted kidnapping, at the British Museum match wits with a madman Jack goes to London with his best friend Conner, determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate where someone gives him a pair of glasses that the dead, both humans and dinosaurs. (Grades 7+) send him to an alternate universe where war is raging. (Grades 10+) Devil’s Footsteps by E.E. Richardson Blue is For Nightmare* by Laurie F. Stolarz After the disappearance of his brother, 13 year old Hereditary witch Stacey has nightmares of her Bryan faces a shadowy, centuries-old evil presence roommate being murdered and hopes that her known as the Dark Man that, taking the form of its magick will be enough to protect Drea--unlike victims' worst fears, stalks the town's children. the last person whose death Stacey dreamed. (Grades 8+) (Grades 7+) Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children The Other Life by Susanne Winnacker by Ransom Riggs Years after a rabies mutation drove survivors into After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore underground bunkers, Sherry teams up with Joshua, an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of who takes her to Safe Haven and helps rescue her Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children family while fending off part-human, part-beast who were kept there. (Grades 7+) creatures known as Weepers. (Grades 8+) Asylum by Madeleine Roux Monstrumologist* by Rick Yancey Three teens at a summer program for gifted students In 1888, Will chronicles his apprenticeship with uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned- Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them studies real-life monsters, as they discover and all to the asylum's dark past. (Grades 9+) attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. (Grades 8+) The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff Gabry lives a quiet life in a town surrounded by the When the creatures under the hill want him back, dead who hunger for the living, but her mother's Mackie Doyle must decide where he belongs and secrets, a cult that worships the dead, and a stranger what he wants. (Grades 8+) from the forest who seems to know her threaten to destroy Gabry's world. (Grades 9+) The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgewick With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil. (Grades 7+) Santa Clara City Library Teen Services, 2016 .