Books on Display: Horror Reads
Read these young adult books if you dare!
 
 

Killer Pizza : a novel
by Greg Taylor

While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters.
Blood magic
by Tessa Gratton

In Yaleylah, Missouri, teens Silla and Nick, drawn together by loss and a shared family history of blood magic practitioners, are plunged into a world of dark magic as they try to unravel the mystery of Silla's parents' apparent murder suicide
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
The ghost of Graylock
by Dan Poblocki

Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric set out to explore Greylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.
The lost boy
by Greg Ruth

When Nate finds a tape recorder and note addressed to him in his new home, he is thrust into a dark mystery about a boy who went missing long ago, and must team with local girl Tabitha to uncover the truth
In the end
by Demitria Lunetta

A conclusion to the thriller that began with In the After finds an escaped Amy fighting her way to the Fort Black survivor colony to find Kay's brother, Ken, in order to rescue Baby from the sinister Dr. Reynolds. 
Attack on Titan. 1
by Hajime Isayama

In the walled enclave where the remnants of humanity shelter from the Titans, giant creatures who have taken over the rest of the world, Eren and Mikasa join the fight
The walls around us
by Nova Ren Suma

Orianna 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. 
The dead girls of Hysteria Hall
by Katie Alender

Murdered by the angry spirit of a mentally ill woman who lived in her house when it was an insane asylum, Delia, now a ghost, meets the ghosts of other trapped teens before learning that her bereaved sister is being targeted. By the author of the Bad Girls Don't Die series. 
The house on Stone's Throw Island
by Dan Poblocki

Stranded on the remote island of Stone's Throw by a freak storm, Josie and Eli are targeted by undead forces that compel them to uncover the island's tragic World War II history in order to survive. By the author of The Stone Child.
Wax
by Gina Damico

Visiting a candle factory where she spots a room filled with unsettling lifelike wax sculptures, Poppy is astonished when one of the figures comes to life and follows her home before the factory is destroyed in a fire and the people in her town begin transforming in frightening ways. By the author of the Croak trilogy.
Odd & true
by Cat Winters

A young girl disabled by childhood polio and growing up in the first decade of the 20th century wonders if the stories her older sister told her about their monster-slaying mother were true before her sister brings her on a journey to defeat a nightmarish beast using possibly inherited magic. By the author of In the Shadow of Blackbirds.
There's someone inside your house : a novel
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. 
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
Last things
by Jacqueline West

A guitar prodigy whose band is soaring toward fame suffers the inexplicable losses of his cat, girlfriend and musical talents before starting to wonder if his number-one fan and stalker is responsible, or trying to protect him. By the award-winning author of The Shadows. 
The waking forest
by Alyssa Wees

A girl living on the edge of a magical forest that only she can see, and a wish-granting witch who is asked by a stranger about her own dreams, find their lives thrown together by a mysterious force with ties to a truth beyond their imagining. 
Wilder girls
by Rory Power

Left to fend for themselves when their island boarding school is quarantined, three best friends watch their teachers die before their fellow students begin succumbing to feral violence, a situation that is further complicated when one of them goes missing. A first novel. 
The bone houses
by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Enduring a meager existence as a gravedigger after the death of her parents, Ryn teams up with apprentice mapmaker Ellis to stop an undead plague linked to a decades-old curse. By the author of Deceptive.
Now entering Addamsville
by Francesca Zappia

When Zora Novak is framed for a crime she didn’t commit, she must track down the true culprit and clear her name before it’s too late, but in a small town obsessed with ghosts, getting people to believe the truth might prove to be impossible. By the acclaimed author of Eliza and Her Monsters.
The glare
by Margot Harrison

Moving to her father’s home in California after a decade at her mother’s isolated ranch, a teen who has been taught to fear technology reunites with friends and family members before experiencing nightmares about a dark-web video game that poses life-threatening dangers. By the author of The Killer in Me.
House of salt and sorrows
by Erin A. Craig

When her beautiful sisters are cursed to dance at glittering balls night after night before they start dying in tragic accidents, Annaleigh questions her involvement with a mysterious stranger and wonders if she will be next.
Kingdom of the wicked
by Kerri Maniscalco

Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia's side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women's murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems...
The Ravens
by Kass Morgan

Loner Vivi Deveraux is thrilled to join Westerly College's Kappas, who are secretly witches, until she meets perfect, polished Scarlett Winter, who will stop at nothing to be the sorority's next president
The initial insult
by Mindy McGinnis

Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
Hide and seeker
by Daka Hermon

Joining his friends for a game of hide-and-seek at the welcome back party of a young neighbor who mysteriously went missing for a year and came back rather changed, Justin watches in horror as players are pulled into a nightmarish alternate world where they are terrorized by a mysterious Seeker.
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.
The Ivies
by Alexa Donne

A ruthless band of prep-school elites competing for admission into the Ivy League colleges of their dreams disrupt class ranks, club leaderships and academic competitions before one of them resorts to more deadly measures. By the author of Burning Brightly.
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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