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The Agony House by Cherie PriestSeventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 100 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of as the "Agony" house.
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And the Trees Crept In by Dawn KurtagichA stunning, terrifying novel about a house the color of blood and the two sisters who are trapped there. When Silla and Nori arrive at their aunt's home, its immediately clear that the blood manor is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets and questions that Silla cant ignore: Who is the beautiful boy that's appeared from the woods? Who is the man that her little sister sees, but no one else? And why does it seem that, ever since they arrived, the trees have been creeping closer?
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Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeFor 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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Asylum by Madeleine RouxA 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.
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A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales by Ying Chang CompestineBased on the Chinese tradition that those who die hungry or unjustly will return to haunt the living, this collection of frightening tales takes readers on a journey through time to different eras and locations throughout China and includes historical notes as well as delectable recipes that will both scare and satiate.
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve TucholkeViolet is in love with River, a stranger renting the guest house behind the mansion where Violet lives, but when grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
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Blood and Salt by Kim LiggettAttempting to prevent her mother's return to a village cult hidden in the cornfields of Kansas, Ash Larkin reflects on haunting memories of an ancestor who succumbed to the village's traditions of violence, superstition and secrets.
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Bone Gap by Laura RubyKnowing 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.
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The Broken Lands by Kate MilfordA fast-paced and richly textured historical fantasy, this prequel to The Boneshaker centers around the seedy underworld of 19th-century Coney Island, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the two orphans who are determined to stop evil forces from claiming the city of New York.
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Cuckoo Song by Frances HardingeIn post-World War I England, eleven-year-old Triss nearly drowns in a millpond known as "The Grimmer" and emerges with memory gaps, aware that something is terribly wrong, and to try to set things right, she must meet a twisted architect who has designs on her family.
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Daughters Unto Devils by Amy LukavicsWhen her family moves from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, pregnant teen Amanda finds that the plains contain a horror all their own.
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The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie AlenderMurdered by a spirit in her house which was previously an insane asylum, sixteen-year-old Cordelia wanders the house, meeting other trapped ghosts and learning the house's dark secrets, searching for a way to save her family, and perhaps herself.
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The Dead House by Dawn KurtagichCarly, a teen who was institutionalized after her parents' death, attends a private school, Elmbrige High School, where she is believed to have a second personality or soul named Kaitlyn, and be possessed by a demon.
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A God in the Shed by J F DubeauWhen a serial killer eluding the police for nearly two decades is caught, the town of Saint-Ferdinand discovers darker forces are at play after a dark spirit reveals itself to Venus McKenzie.
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The Haunted by Danielle VegaTo evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house.
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The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzieMoving 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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House of Furies by Madeleine RouxEscaping from her harsh school before taking work as a maid in a northern England boarding house, Louisa gradually realizes that her mysterious employer and his staff execute cruel judgments on the guests.
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A Monster calls: A Novel by Patrick NessThirteen-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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A Room Away From the Wolves by Nova Ren SumaTeenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.
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Sawkill Girls by Claire LegrandA lovelorn newcomer, a grief-stricken pariah and a privileged liar intersect on the island of Sawkill Rock, where they become unlikely defenders against an insidious monster that has been preying upon the girls in their community for decades.
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The Sacrifice Box by Martin J. StewartOnce united by a glorious summer spent together, five teenagers are haunted years later by a broken oath and an ancient ritual.
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A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal SutherlandEsther Solar makes a determined effort to overcome her debilitating phobias and develops a friendship with an old classmate, only to be faced with an unexpected new fear, falling in love.
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Servants of the Storm by Delilah S DawsonAfter her best friend dies in a hurricane, high schooler Dovey discovers something even more devastating--demons in her hometown of Savannah.
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Strange Grace by Tessa GrattonIn an atmospheric fantasy novel that entwines love, lies and sacrifice, Mairwen, Rhun and Arthur will each have a role to play when the Slaughter Moon rises and the devil demands a body to fill the bargain made long ago by villagers to ensure their prosperity.
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Thornhill by Pam SmyParallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door.1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill itself. 2016: Ella has just moved to a new town where she knows no one. From her room on the top floor of her new home, she has a perfect view of the dilapidated, abandoned Thornhill Institute across the way, where she glimpses a girl in the window. Determined to befriend the girl, Ella resolves to unravel Thornhill's shadowy past.
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Unspoken by C. C HunterIn her new role as an elite paranormal investigator, Della Tsang is assigned a twenty-year-old murder case where the prime suspect is her father.
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The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren SumaOrianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
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The Wrong Train by Jeremy De QuidtA treasury of scary stories by the author of The Toymaker envisions the experiences of a train passenger who becomes subject to the nightmarish elements in stories told by a mysterious stranger, who demands a terrible price to make the stories end.
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Animus by Antoine J. D Revoy The residents of a quiet Japanese neighborhood have slowly come to realize that inauspicious, paranormal forces are at play in the most unlikely of places: the local playground. Two friends, a young boy and girl, resolve to exorcise the evil that inhabit it, including a snaggle-toothed monster.
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Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories by Brian ColdrickBehind you is an illustration series, a comic with no panels, where each piece is essentially a separate story. Each tale is one image and one piece of text, an unsuspecting victim with someone or something, behind them. Entries range from the amusingly weird to the genuinely unsettling. Inspired by spooky films, books, myths, and Internet tall tales, Behind you is full of scary set-ups but leaves lots of blanks for the reader to fill in with their own narrative.
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Through the woods by Emily CarrollDiscover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online web comic sensation “His Face All Red,” in print for the first time. Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong.
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The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 1, Siúil, a rún by NagabeIn a land split into two realms, the Outside, where beasts roam that can curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans live in safety, a girl and a beast, who should never have met, share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances.
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Spill Zone by Scott WesterfeldYears after the devastation that killed her parents, scarred her sister, and destroyed her city, Addison takes a job from an eccentric collector that forces her to break her own rules of survival.
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