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Looking for something creepy or scary? Check out these titles from our Young Adult section.
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The Dead House
by Dawn Kurtagich
The charred diary pages belonging to the chief suspect in the deaths of three classmates and the disappearance of a fourth reveal sinister events that are challenged by a growing revelation that the suspect and the missing girl are one and the same. YF KURTAGICH
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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." YF LYGA
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Rot & Ruin
by Jonathan Maberry
In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter. YF MABERRY
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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. YF MCBRIDE
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A Monster Calls
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. YF NESS
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Another Little Piece
by Kate Karyus Quinn
Having vanished from a party screaming and drenched in blood a year earlier, 17-year-old Annaliese Rose Gordon appears hundreds of miles from home with no memory of what happened to her and a haunting certainty that she is actually another girl trapped in Annaliese's body. YF QUINN
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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. YF RIGGS
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Asylum
by Madeleine Roux
A tale presented in the style of an integrated photo-novel finds intellectual misfit Dan arriving at a summer college prep program for gifted students and being required to sleep in a crumbling former psychiatric hospital, where he and his friends uncover disturbing secrets about the asylum's dark past. YF ROUX
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth
by Carrie Ryan
When the fence that surrounds her village and protects its residents from the Forest of Hands and Teeth is breached, danger strikes the only home Mary has ever known and forces her to decide between saving everything she loves or pursuing the life she has always dreamed of having. YF RYAN
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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. YF SHEPHERD
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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. YF SMITH
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Welcome to the Dark House
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Ivy, one of seven essay-contest winners who wrote about their worst nightmares to win a tour of a famous director's latest movie set, leans on sympathetic fellow winner Parker while struggling to outmaneuver a troublemaking horror-film fanatic. YF STOLARZ
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
by April Genevieve Tucholke
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious 17-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil. YF TUCHOLKE
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Shallow Graves
by Kali Wallace
After awakening in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost. YF WALLACE
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The Monstrumologist
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. YF YANCY
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