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The dark descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
by Kiersten White
The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankensteins as a companion for their volatile son Victor.
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Sawkill girls
by Claire Legrand
A 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. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Winterspell.
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Dread nation
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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The sacrifice box
by Martin J. Stewart
Summer, 1982. Five friends discover an ancient stone box hidden deep in the woods. They seal inside of it treasured objects from their childhoods, and they make a vow: Never come to the box alone. Never open it after dark. Never take back your sacrifice.Four years later, a series of strange and terrifying events begin to unfold: mirrors inexplicably shattering, inanimate beings coming to life, otherworldly crows thirsting for blood. Someone broke the rules of the box, and now everyone has to pay. But how much are they willing to sacrifice?
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Through the woods
by Emily Carroll
"A collection of five spine-tingling short stories"
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans Molly, 14, and Kip, 10, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house. By the author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes.
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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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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
When Coraline attempts to leave her family's new flat, she discovers that she and her family are trapped by a dangerous presence, thus a battle between good and evil must take place in order to break out and set her loved ones free.
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The enemy
by Charles Higson
In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone older than 16 is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh--teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food; when a mysterious traveler offers them safe haven at Buckingham Palace, they begin a harrowing journey across London.
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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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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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Rot & Ruin
by Jonathan Maberry
Struggling for survival in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested America where teens must find employment at an early age or have their rations cut, Benny reluctantly takes work as a zombie hunter, an apprenticeship that shows him what it means to be human. By the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues.
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Bad girls don't die
by Katie Alender
When her 13-year-old sister, Kasey, begins to change before her eyes, the house she lives in transforms itself in strange ways, and dangerous things start happening that put her family's lives in jeopardy, Alexis must find the cause of the disturbances in order to save those she loves and return Kasey back to the girl she used to be.
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Pet
by Akwaeke Emezi
A girl and her best friend confront difficult choices in the face of a home city in denial when they meet a being who exposes the community’s willful disbelief about the existence of monsters. A first young adult novel by the award-winning authors of Freshwater.
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.
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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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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. By the author of Allison Hewett Is Trapped. 100,000 first printing.
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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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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. Reissue.
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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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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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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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You may now kill the bride
by R. L Stine
Published to coincide with the release of the Fear Street movies, a first of three new novels set in the perennially popular Fear Street universe traces the chilling story of two sisters, decades apart, who are bound by an ancient family curse.
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The knife of never letting go
by Patrick Ness
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
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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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Deep and dark and dangerous : A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
When twelve-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
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The graveyard book
by Neil Gaiman
Raised since he was a baby by ghosts, werewolves, and other residents of the cemetery in which he has always resided, Bod wonders how he will manage to survive amongst the living with only the lessons he has learned from the dead.
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The screaming staircase
by Jonathan Stroud
Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.
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Doll bones
by Holly Black
Playing an endless make-believe game about pirates, mermaids and warriors under the rule of a formidable Great Queen china doll, best friends Zach, Poppy and Alice find their bond tested when Zach is compelled to give up their shared adventures and Poppy begins having dreams about the doll. By the co-author of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles.
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