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Trick Or Treat Yourself to Some Spooky (Young Adult) Reads
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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.
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The fall
by Bethany Griffin
A reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, features short, non-chronological chapters that reveal how Madeline's resolve to save her brother from madness causes her to be buried alive inside their decimated home. By the author of Masque of the Red Death.
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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.
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There's someone inside your house
by Stephanie Perkins
When incrementally more violent attacks overshadow life at Osborne High, an intense hunt for the killer leads to the revelation of astonishing secrets. By the best-selling author of Anna and the French Kiss.
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I know what you did last summer
by Lois Duncan
When four friends make a pact to keep a terrible accident a secret, things take a turn for the worse as someone from outside their privileged group learns about the secret and decides to seek revenge on them all.
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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.
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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.
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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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Dread nation : rise up
by Justina Ireland
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
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As I descended
by Robin Talley
Tapping a dark power to prevent the favorite candidate of a distinguished educational prize from winning, school power couple Maria and Lily unleash fatal energies that blur the lines between reality and madness. By the award-winning author of Lies We Tell Ourselves.
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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.
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The monstrumologist : William James Henry
by Richard Yancey
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi
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Rotters
by Daniel Kraus
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
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The name of the star
by Maureen Johnson
Rory, a teenager from Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved in the highly unusual investigation.
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Labyrinth lost
by Zoraida Córdova
"Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back."
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Unnatural creatures : Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman
by Neil Gaiman
Selected by a master storyteller and beloved New York Times best-selling author, the 16 stories in this menagerie will introduce teen readers to a host of strange, wondrous beings that have never existed anywhere but in the richness of the imagination.
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Gris Grimly's Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
by Gris Grimly
Retells, in graphic novel format, Mary Shelley's classic tale of a monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
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This savage song
by Victoria Schwab
A dark urban fantasy by the author of The Unbound finds the heirs to a monster-infested city, one a ruthless opportunist and one a protector of the innocent, having to choose between friendship and enmity, with their city's future at stake.
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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.
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Daughters unto devils : A Chilling Debut
by Amy Lukavics
When 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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Possess
by Gretchen McNeil
Enlisted to help in dangerous cases of demonic possession, a teenaged exorcist discovers a race of part-demons intent on raising their forefathers to the earth in human form.
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(Don't you) forget about me
by Kate Karyus Quinn
Traces the emotionally complex journey of a teenage girl haunted by the death of her sister and the strange, secretive power that fuels a hometown where virtually nobody ever gets sick or dies.
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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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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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