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The afterdark
by E. Latimer
"Northcroft is an elite boarding school with a deadly secret. Each night as the bell tolls and the shutters slam down, cutting off the outside world, the Afterdark descends, turning the surrounding old growth forest into a macabre copy of itself. A negative photograph crawling with horrors. Evie Laurent is certain of one thing from the moment she sees Holland Morgan on the front steps of Northcroft: she wants to know everything there is to know about her. But there are some things about Evie herself thatare better kept secret. Especially the fact that she let her sister drown. And that it's getting harder to ignore her dark impulses... Holland Morgan knows falling for Evie is just one more terrible choice in her long history of terrible choices. The problem is, she's not sure she cares. As attraction turns slowly to obsession, they find themselves playing a dangerous game. Something out there is calling to each of them. Beckoning to the shadows within. Do they fight the call and protect one another, or answer and embrace the darkness?"
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Honeysuckle and Bone
by Trisha Tobias
Carina Marshall wants to reinvent herself in Jamaica, her mother's homeland, where she has an au pair gig for a wealthy, politically powerful family, but when strange things start happening to her, she must figure out what is haunting her.
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The hysterical girls of St. Bernadette's
by Hanna Alkaf
When 17 students start screaming and succumbing to hysteria, Khadijah must save her sister when she falls to the screams as well and is forced to dig into St. Bernadette's troubled history while a specter lurks in the darkness, waiting to devour its next victim.
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The bad ones
by Melissa Albert
When her estranged best friend, Becca, goes missing, along with three other people, Nora follows coded messages Becca left for her to unravel, leading Nora to a legendary goddess who played a role in their own childhood games.
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My throat an open grave
by Tori Bovalino
When she wishes her baby brother Owen away to the Lord of the Wood, shame-filled Leah makes a deal with the devilish Lord to bring Owen back, a bargain that unearths her town's secrets, making her question everything she's been taught to fear.
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Dead girls walking
by Sami Ellis
Temple Baker, the daughter of a well-known serial killer, assumes the role of a camp counselor at a camp for true crime enthusiasts while she attempts to unearth the truth surrounding her mother's murder, but becomes embroiled in a disturbing series of events when a girl is found dead in the woods.
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Ruin road
by Lamar Giles
High school football player Cade Webster buys a ring in a pawn shop, but when his wish that people stop acting scared of him seems to be coming true, he remembers the ring came with a warning--"When the strangeness begins, come back"-- and suddenly people seem to have lost their fear of everything.
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Our wicked histories
by Amy Goldsmith
Spending the weekend at Wren Hall, her last, and only, chance to save her spot at an exclusive British art school and make amends with her former friends, Meg instead must fight for her survival when dark secrets and a tainted legacy come to light.
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Old wounds
by Logan-Ashley Kisner
Two transgender teens embark on a cross-country road trip, only to find their journey interrupted when their car breaks down in a small Kentucky town that sacrifices girls to a forest-dwelling monster.
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Now, conjurers
by Freddie Kèolsch
Following the murder of their leader and friend, a tight-knit coven of queer teens takes on a wish-granting demon lurking in their town.
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The dark we know
by Wen-Yi Lee
Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive small town, even before she realized she was bisexual--but after the deaths of two childhood friends, Slater went from feeling claustrophobic to suffocating. So, Isa took off before the town could swallow her, too. Even though it meant leaving everything she knew behind, including her last surviving friend, Mason. When Isa's abusive father dies, however, she agrees to come back from art school just long enough to collect the inheritance. But then Mason turns up at the cemetery with a revelation and a plea: their friends were murdered by an evil that haunts the town, and he needs Isa to help stop it--before it takes anyone else. When Isa begins to hear strange songs on the wind, andeerie artwork fills her sketchbook that she can't recall drawing, she's forced to stop running and confront her past. Because something is waiting in the shadows of Slater's valleys, something that feeds on the pain and heartbreak of its children. Whatever it is, it knows Isa's back... and it won't let her escape again.
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Six of sorrow
by Amanda Linsmeier
On the night of their 16th birthday, six girls all born on the same day find their sisterhood as strong as it was years ago, but when one of them disappears, they feel it deep in their bones that something has come to claim them one by one.
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Clever creatures of the night
by Samantha Mabry
When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's isolated West Texas home and finds her missing, she embarks on a search for clues about Drea's disappearance while facing the unsettling, cult-like and possibly murderous behavior of Drea's roommates.
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Bad graces
by Kyrie McCauley
Stealing her perfect sister's identity, self-destructive and desperate Liv Whitlock finds herself stranded with a pop star, two actresses, an Olympic gymnast and a social media influencer on an island where they must face something inhuman, using each other as their final tether to humanity.
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Flawless girls
by Anna-Marie McLemore
When her sister Renata returns from prominent finishing school Alarie House, seemingly pleasant, unnervingly polite and possibly murderous, younger sister Isla is determined to find out want happened to Renata by going back to the school and is drawn into the opulent, unsettling place that won't give up its secrets—or her—without a fight.
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Come out, come out
by Natalie C. Parker
Five years after the disappearance of their friend Mallory and their memories of that fateful night, high school seniors Fern and Jaq encounter a vengeful spirit resembling Mallory, forcing them to confront their true identities and the dark secrets hidden in their past.
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Tender beasts
by Liselle Sambury
When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer--and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
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Breakup from hell
by Ann Dâavila Cardinal
When she realizes there is something off about her new boyfriend, Mica Angeles finds herself living in a horror novel and must find a way to leave him without bringing an end to everything she knows and loves.
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This delicious death
by Kayla Cottingham
Ex-zombies living in Southern California, four best friends attend a musical festival in the desert, as a last hurrah before graduation, where they soon discover someone is drugging ghouls and reawakening their hunger for flesh and must work together to stop the carnage.
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The pledge
by Cale Dietrich
"The survivor of a horrific massacre, Sam, now a freshman in college, joins a fraternity as a fresh start, but when one of his frat brothers is murdered, he realizes he cannot escape the past as he seeks to unmask the killer.
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What stalks among us
by Sarah Hollowell
Best friends and high school seniors Sadie and Logan make their first mistake when they ditch their end-of-year field trip to the amusement park in favor of exploring some old, forgotten backroads. The last thing they expect to come across is a giant, abandoned corn maze. But with a whole day of playing hooking unspooling before them, they make their second mistake. Or perhaps their third? Maybe even their fourth. Because Sadie and Logan have definitely entered this maze before. And again before that. When they stumble on the corpses in the maze, identical to them in every way (if you can ignore the stab and gunshot wounds)--from their clothes to their hidden scars to their dyed hair, to that one missing tooth--they quickly realize they've not only entered this maze before, they've died in it too. A lot. And no matter what they try, they can't figure out what-or who-is hunting them. Deeply unnerving, clever, and atmospheric, this time-bending, mind-bending speculative horror is a poignant meditation on the lasting effects of trauma and the healing powers of connection and forgiveness-all while delivering more surprise twists and turns than a haunted corn maze.
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All the dead lie down
by Kyrie McCauley
Accepting a nanny position with acclaimed horror writer Alice Lovelace, Marin Blythe discovers something dangerous is lurking in the nearby woods—and it's coming for her.
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The shadow sister
by Lily Meade
When her missing sister Sutton suddenly reappears but is changed in ways she cannot explain, Casey starts uncovering her sister's secrets while searching for the truth surrounding the disappearance of other girls in their area.
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Beholder
by Ryan La Sala
The only survivor of a NYC penthouse party massacre where dead bodies were arranged into disturbingly elegant sculpture, Athan becomes the prime suspect and, desperate to prove his innocence, must confront an ancient evil compelling its victims toward violence, chaos and self-destruction.
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Delicious monsters
by Liselle Sambury
While investigating what happened to a young Black girl named Daisy, who lived in the infamous “Miracle Mansion,” for her popular Haunted web series, Brittney discovers that the most dangerous monsters of all are those that hide in plain sight.
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I feed her to the beast and the beast is me
by Jamison Shea
Striking a deal with the river of blood to take center stage in the Parisian ballet, Black dancer Laure gains everything she's dreamed of and worked toward until she discovers, despite her vicious desires, she isn't the only monster around.
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Find him where you left him dead
by Kristen Simmons
Summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead, Owen, Madeline, Emerson and Dax must restart the deadly game they never finished in order to bring Ian home, entering into a hell-scape of Japanese underworlds where they must make the ultimate sacrifice.
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We don't swim here
by Vincent Tirado
Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother is in hospice, and her father needs to get her affairs in order. And they're all meant to make some final memories together. Except Bronwyn is miserable. Her grandmother is dying, everyone is standoffish, and she can't even go swimming. All she hears are warnings about going in the water, despite a gorgeous lake. And a pool at the abandoned rec center. And another in the high school basement. Anais tries her hardest to protecther cousin Bronwyn from the shadows of Hillwoods. She follows her own rituals to avoid any unnecessary attention--and if she can just get Bronwyn to stop asking questions, she can protect her too. The less Bronwyn pays attention to Hillwoods, the less Hillwoods will pay attention to Bronwyn. She doesn't get that the lore is, well, truth. History. Pain. The living aren't the only ones who seek retribution when they're wronged. But when Bronwyn does more exploring than she should, they are both in for danger they couldn't expect.
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The spirit bares its teeth
by Andrew Joseph White
Shipped away in 1883 London to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanitorium after a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, 16-year-old autistic trans Silas Bell decides to expose the school's darkest secrets to the world when the ghosts of missing students beg him for help.
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Into the Sublime
by Kate A. Boorman
With her cousin Sasha in a coma, guilt-stricken 17-year-old Amelie Desmarais, who is part of a meet-up for thrill seekers, searches an underground cave system for a lake rumored to reveal your deepest fears and discovers the truth about Sasha's accident.
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Not good for maidens
by Tori Bovalino
Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women--the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market--until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl, accepted her invitation, and became inextricably tied to the world her family tried to protect her from. The market learned her name, and even when she and her sister left York for Boston to escape it, the goblins remembered. Seventeen years later, Lou, May's niece, knows nothing of her magical lineage or the twisted streets, sweet fruits, and incredible jewels of the goblin market. But just like her aunt, the market calls to her, an echo of a curse that won't release its hold on her family. And when her youngest aunt, Neela, is kidnapped by goblins, Lou discovers just how real and dangerous the market is. To save her, both May and Lou will have to confront their family's past and what happened all those years ago. But everything--from the food and wares, to the goblins themselves--is a haunting temptation for any human who manages to find their way in. And if Lou isn't careful, she could end up losing herself to the market, too.
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The girl from the well
by Rin Chupeco
Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing innocent ghosts and taking the lives of killers, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen is not a monster and needs to be freed from the demon that clings to him.
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My dearest darkest
by Kayla Cottingham
When transfer student Finch Chamberlin and popular senior Selena St. Clair accidentally wake something terrifying and ancient in the depths of their school, they must work together to stop the horror they unleashed before it consumes the town.
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The getaway
by Lamar Giles
When Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts, suddenly offers the richest and most powerful families a safe haven from the nightmare outside its walls, Jay and his crew learn just how far they'll go to find out the truth and save themselves.
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Belladonna
by Adalyn Grace
Making an alliance with Death himself—the very man she hates most—to solve a murder by poisoning, 19-year-old Signa Farrow is shown that their connection may be more powerful than she dared imagine. 100,000 first printing.
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Wake the bones
by Elizabeth Kilcoyne
When a devil from her past returns to court her, as he did her mother years earlier, tobacco hand and taxidermist Laurel Early must unravel her mother's terrifying legacy and tap into her own magic to save everyone she loves.
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The Honeys
by Ryan La Sala
After his twin sister Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars takes her place at the elite Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where he finds himself hunted by something toying with his mind that leads him to the Honeys, a group of beautiful—and terrifying—girls.
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Extasia
by Legrand, Claire
To protect her village against the evil power living beneath the black mountain, a girl joins a coven, becoming one of the four saints of Haven and standing with her sisters to save their people from destruction.
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It will end like this
by Kyra Leigh
When Charlotte and Maddi's mother dies suddenly and mysteriously, the two girls suspect foul play when their father moves on with their mother's personal assistant, whom they are convinced is determined to take everything that's theirs away for herself, in this contemporary take on the Lizzie Borden story that explores how grief can cut deep.
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These fleeting shadows
by Kate Alice Marshall
To claim her inheritance, Helen Vaughan must spend one year in her ancestral home, Harrowstone Hall, and with her life and sanity at stake, she must unravel Harrowstone's secrets, an endeavor that forces her to question everything she knows about her family and herself.
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Dig two graves
by McNeil, Gretchen
Neve Lanier, after being betrayed by her best friend Yasmin, attends a girl's empowerment camp where she falls under the spell of the manipulative Diana who kills Yasmin in exchange for Neve murdering her stepbrother, whom Neve has fallen for.
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Primal animals : a novel
by Julia Lynn Rubin
While at the college prep Camp Rockaway, sixteen-year-old Arlee Gold is tapped to join a secret society, with deadly consequences.
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Burn down, rise up
by Vincent Tirado
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
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The restless dark
by Erica Waters
When a true-crime podcast hosts a contest to find the Cloudkiss Killer's bones, three girls seek answers, new identities and a place to bury their secrets, discovering that sometimes the darkness inside is more frightening than anything the dead leave behind.
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Hell followed with us
by Andrew Joseph White
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji's darkest secret: the cult's bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick's terms... until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.
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Katzenjammer
by Francesca Zappia
Living in her high school, Cat watches as things start horrifically transforming, including herself, and must find a way out from her school's upside-down world as she desperately tries to remember what put her there in the first place.
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Within these wicked walls : a novel
by Lauren Blackwood
Andromeda, an exorcist who has been forced to work for Magnus Rochester and hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye, realizes that death will be the outcome if she stays but refuses to let Magnus live out his curse alone since she's fallen for him.
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The devil makes three
by Tori Bovalino
When Tess and Eliot stumble upon an ancient book hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the school library, they accidentally release a devil from his book-bound prison, and he'll stop at nothing to stay free. He'll manipulate all the ink in the library books to do his bidding, he'll murder in the stacks, and he'll bleed into every inch of Tess's life until his freedom is permanent. Forced to work together, Tess and Eliot have to find a way to re-trap the devil before he kills everyone they know and love, including, increasingly, each other. And compared to what the devil has in store for them, school stress suddenly doesn't seem so bad after all.
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Horrid
by Katrina Leno
Following her father's sudden death, Jane North-Robinson and her mother are forced to move to the old North house in Maine, where Jane uncovers her family's disturbing secrets.
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Bad witch burning
by Jessica Lewis
Desperate to make money, Katrell accidentally raises someone from the dead, discovering that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition, but she soon learns that magic isn't free and dark forces are coming to collect.
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The Mary Shelley Club
by Goldy Moldavsky
Struggling to fit in as a scholarship student at an elite prep school, newcomer Rachel Chavez is caught up in a prank gone wrong before attracting the attention of a secret club of students who compete with each other for the best scary pranks.
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The woods are always watching
by Perkins, Stephanie
When two girls go backpacking deep in the woods of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, things go very wrong when they cross paths with a serial killer.
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This is not a ghost story
by Andrea Portes
Unable to shake feelings of hostility and unease while housesitting for a wealthy couple during the summer before college, a young woman uncovers the property's dark history and her own fated role in making things right. By the best-selling author of Anatomy of a Misfit.
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Hold back the tide
by Melinda Salisbury
Everyone in this quiet lakeside community knows that Alva's father killed her mother, all those years ago. There wasn't enough proof to arrest him, though, and with no other family, Alva's been forced to live with her mother's murderer, doing her best to survive until she can earn enough money to run away. One of her chores is to monitor water levels in the loch--a task her father takes very seriously. It's a cold, lonely task, and a few times, Alva can swear she feels someone watching her.
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House of Hollow
by Krystal Sutherland
Reappearing in their Scotland suburb a month after going missing, three sisters with no memory of what happened begin to transform, while strange phenomena begin occurring around them in ways that impact their coming-of-age a decade later.
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What big teeth
by Rose Szabo
Returning to Maine after years at boarding school, Eleanor Zarrin barely remembers her monstrous family, but she sets off a series of events that could destroy them all
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The river has teeth
by Erica Waters
When her sister goes missing on the Bend, becoming the second girl to disappear from the wildlife preserve, Natasha turns to a local girl rumored to be a witch to find her.
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Harrow Lake
by Kat Ellis
Moving to her grandmother's home in a small and secretive community where her father once filmed a celebrated horror movie, a fearless teen observes strange phenomena before discovering that she is being followed by an unknown being.
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Burn our bodies down
by Power, Rory
Growing up alongside a mother who refuses to speak about the past, a teen who longs for a family discovers a photograph that leads to her mother's hometown, where she encounters disturbing revelations. By the best-selling author of Wilder Girls.
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Here there are monsters
by Amelinda Bâerubâe
Moving to a small swamp community to give her troubled sister a chance to start over, 16-year-old Skye is horrified when her sister becomes fixated with the nearby woods before going missing.
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The tenth girl
by Sara Faring
Dismissing rumors that the Patagonia school where she has taken recent employment is haunted, a young teacher unexpectedly agrees to help a spirit find redemption, before a dark secret threatens both of their existences.
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Strange grace
by Tessa Gratton
Every seven years, the people of Three Graces send a sacrifice to the woods. The death of their 'best boy' ensures seven years free from disease, blight, and pain. But this year, the Slaughter Moon has risen early, and three, not one, will run into the forest as a sacrifice.
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Teeth in the mist
by Dawn Kurtagich
An epic fantasy inspired by the legend of Faust traces the experiences of a teen photography enthusiast whose destiny is tied by an ancient pact to the lives of two women from other centuries.
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The grace year
by Kim Liggett
Dreaming of a life outside the strict society that criminalizes teen girls and banishes them into the wild to be“purified,” 16-year-old Tierney discovers that many of the banished girls are being poached and sold on the black market. By the award-winning author of The Last Harvest.
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The haunted
by Danielle Vega
Moving to a new town with his parents to start over, a teen with a traumatic past learns from his classmates that the home his family has moved into is believed to be haunted. By the author of the Merciless series.
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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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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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Not even bones
by Rebecca Schaeffer
Reluctantly helping with her mother's brutal black-market operation selling the body parts of supernatural beings, Nita, a girl with rare powers of her own, protests when her mother brings home a living subject, only to be sold in his place. A first novel.
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The Wicker King
by Kayla Ancrum
Best friends August and Jack struggle to cope as one spirals into madness.
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Alone
by Cyn Balog
Dismayed when her unhappy mother moves them away from the city to a crumbling mansion in the aftermath of her father's abandonment, Seda anticipates a lonely winter before offering shelter to a group of stranded teens, which ends up placing them in the path of a malevolent force.
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And the trees crept in
by Dawn Kurtagich
Sisters Silla and Nori are trapped in their aunt's cursed manor and can only escape with the help of a mysterious boy.
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House of furies
by Madeleine Roux
Escaping 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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Scary out there
by Jonathan Maberry
Edited by a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning writer, a collection of more than 20 stories and poems by members of the Horror Writers Association centers on a theme of worst fears and includes contributions by such renowned authors as R.L. Stine, Ellen Hopkins, and Neal and Brendan Shusterman.
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Dreamland
by Robert Luis Anderson
Odea Donahue has been able to travel through people's dreams since she was 6 years old, but when Dea breaks the rules, the boundary between the dream world and reality begins to deteriorate, putting everyone she loves in danger. A debut novel.
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The cemetery boys
by Zac Brewer
When Stephen moves to the small, midwestern town where his father grew up, he quickly falls in with punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother, Devon; but the town has a dark secret, and the twins are caught in the middle of it.
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Slasher girls & monster boys
by April Genevieve Tucholke
An anthology of stories inspired by classic horror tales features contributions by leading suspense and young adult authors, including Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake.
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Messenger of Fear
by Michael Grant
The Messenger of Fear brings justice to those who do wrong, creating frightening games where the players earn their redemption--or lose their sanity--and somehow Mara, fifteen, has become his apprentice.
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