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Gothic Tales of Mystery and Fright
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Kin
by Holly Black
When her mother goes missing and her father is blamed for her disappearance, Rue Silver delves into her family's secret past and learns something incredible that changes her entire understanding of the world in which she lives. 30,000 first printing.
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Kind : Kind
by Holly Black
In the conclusion to the teen graphic series, Rue Silver makes increasingly convoluted discoveries as she continues to investigate her past and struggles to choose between stopping a faerie invasion on the only world she has ever known and assuming her position as the rightful faerie heir. By the Eisner Award-winning author of Kin.
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Kith : Kith
by Holly Black
In a quest to bring her mother back from the fairy realm, Rue must travel deep into that world at the same time the faerie realm is venturing into Rue's world; when her grandfather's plans threaten Rue's city, she realizes she's the only one who can stop him--but is Rue a human or a faerie and where does she fit? By the best-selling co-author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.
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The coldest girl in Coldtown
by Holly Black
Living in a world of walled cities where quarantined monsters and humans endure dangerous predatory existences, Tana, one of three survivors of a horrifying massacre, safeguards their lives by visiting the evil heart of her city. By the best-selling co-author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.100,000 first printing. Simultaneous.
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Anna dressed in blood
by Kendare Blake
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before
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A great and terrible beauty
by Libba Bray
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle 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.
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Rebel angels
by Libba Bray
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released, in the sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty.
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The sweet far thing
by Libba Bray
As Gemma, along with her friends from the Spence Academy, try to stop The Order, a mysterious group her late mother was once part of, from taking over the enchanted realms, she must sacrifice her friendships to discover her true destiny.
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The chronicles of Vladimir Tod : eighth grade bites
by Heather Brewer
In addition to being harassed by the principals and the bullies at his school, outcast Vlad has to find a way to curb his vampire cravings and hide his enlarged fangs, but when a substitute teacher becomes too inquisitive and he learns that he is being hunted by a vampire killer, Vlad's social life becomes the least of his concerns. Reprint.
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Neverwhere : a novel
by Neil Gaiman
Richard Mayhew's life is changed forever after he rescues a young girl named Door and finds himself journeying into a mysterious world hidden deep under the city of London, a city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels, and he must help Door on her mission to save this strange underworld kingdom from destruction. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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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.
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The dead
by Charles Higson
When a plague turns anyone over the age of sixteen into flesh-craving monsters, a group of teenagers escape from their infested high school and head for London with the hopes of finding a safe haven there
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Oblivion
by Anthony Horowitz
A conclusion to the best-selling series that includes Raven's Gate finds the five Gatekeepers taking an ultimate stand against a destructive evil force that has unleashed a decimating storm as part of a plot to end the world.
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Bizenghast
by M. Alice LeGrow
When a young girl moves to the town of Bizenghast, she discovers a group of lost souls that want to go home, and this realization tests her own sanity
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I hunt killers
by Barry Lyga
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad" but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
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Hold me closer, necromancer
by Lish McBride
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer and inadvertently brings himself to the attention of Douglas, a rather creepy guy with an intensely violent streak who also happens to be a necromancer--and one who now wants to team up, or else.
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The haunting of Sunshine girl. Book one
by Paige McKenzie
Moving from Texas to Washington, Sunshine, an adopted sixteen-year-old, discovers that her new home is haunted and that the ghosts may have revelations about her past
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A monster calls : a novel
by Patrick Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill, but an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children
by Ransom Riggs
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there
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Catacomb
by Madeleine Roux
Embarking on a road trip to New Orleans after the events of their senior year, Dan, Abby and Jordan realize that they are being followed and photographed before Dan begins receiving messages from someone he believes is dead. Simultaneous eBook. 125,000 first printing.
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Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
Knowing that his sister has been kidnapped by a dangerous assailant and that she did not abandon the family like their mother did years earlier, Finn confronts town secrets to organize a search. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Lily's Ghost. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
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Cirque du Freak : A Living Nightmare
by Darren Shan
Darren and Steve, two boys who are best friends, visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. 150,000 first printing.
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The madman's daughter
by Megan Shepherd
Dr. Moreau's 16-year-old daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors and a love triangle. Inspired by H. G. Wells' classic The Island of Dr. Moreau. 75,000 first printing.
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Alice in Zombieland
by Gena Showalter
When her entire existence is shattered in the blink of an eye, Ali is forced to partner with secretive bad boy Cole Holland to avenge the deaths of her loved ones by returning an undead army to their graves.
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Unwind
by Neal Shusterman
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
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Lockdown : Escape from Furnace
by Alexander Gordon Smith
Forced into the Furnace, a dark prison of pain that exists one mile beneath the earth's surface, wrongfully convicted Alex Sawyer finds himself in a living nightmare and, after meeting others like him in the same situation, plans to escape in order to let the world know the terrible truth.
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Don't stay up late : a Fear Street novel
by R. L. Stine
Plagued by nightmares and hallucinations after a car accident kills her father, Lisa takes a seemingly straightforward babysitting job to distract herself only to discover horrifying truths about her young charge. By the best-selling author of the Goosebumps series. Simultaneous eBook.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
The classic horror tale of the powerful, centuries-old vampire follows his bloodthirsty trail from the mountains of Central Europe to England, until Dr. Van Helsing comes up with a way to end his reign of terror
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My soul to take
by Rachel Vincent
When Kaylee Cavanaugh finds herself with an ability to know when people near her are about to die, she turns to hot senior Nash for help, and together they investigate when several of their classmates die for no apparent reason
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The monstrumologist : William James Henry
by Richard Yancey
As an apprentice to a monster-hunting doctor in 1888, Will Henry and his boss are brought a corpse entwined with an Anthropophagus--a supposedly extinct monster that feeds through teeth in its chest--and the two must race to stop it and its kind from consuming the world.
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The replacement
by Brenna Yovanoff
Mackie Doyle seems like everyone else in the perfect little town of Gentry, except that he is living with a fatal secret: he is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby 16 years before; now the creatures under the hill want him back, and Mackie must decide where he really belongs and what he really wants. 125,000 first printing.
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Zombies vs. unicorns
by Holly Black
A tongue-in-cheek teen anthology of twelve short stories by a variety of best-selling and award-winning authors seeks to answer the question of whether zombies are better than unicorns. 75,000 first printing.
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