Grades 7-9
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City of Ghosts
by Victoria Schwab

Surviving a near-fatal accident that gives her the ability to enter the spirit world, the daughter of television ghost-hunters visits with her ghost best friend and meets another girl who shares her abilities before realizing the dangers that come with her powers.
TEEN SUPERNATURAL SCHWAB VICTORIA
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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman

Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. 
TEEN HORROR GAIMAN NEIL
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The Devouring Gray
by Christine Lynn Herman

An unsuspecting founding family member in mourning for her sister, a boy determined to keep his birthright in spite of not inheriting family powers, a girl who would exact revenge and the youth responsible for her accident become rivals and then allies against a brutal interdimensional monster. 
TEEN FANTASY HERMAN CHRISTINE
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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.
TEEN HORROR KIERSTEN WHITE
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The Jumbies
by Tracey Baptiste

In a spine-tingling tale that is rooted in Caribbean folklore, 11-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
TEEN FANTASY BAPTISTE TRACEY
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Small Spaces
by Katherine Arden

After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to venture through frightening woods, relying on her wits to survive and sticking to small spaces.
TEEN HORROR ARDEN KATHERINE
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A Taste for Monsters
by Matthew J. Kirby

When the Jack the Ripper murders begin, Evelyn Fallow and Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, find themselves haunted by the ghosts of his victims and Evelyn is obsessed with learning the killer's identity.
TEEN HORROR KIRBY MATTHEW
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Through the Woods
by Emily Carroll
 
Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection of fairytales gone seriously wrong.
YA GRAPHIC CARROLL
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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 survive until they turn eighteen.
TEEN DYSTOPIAN SHUSTERMAN NEAL
Grades 10-12
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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.
TEEN HORROR BLAKE KENDARE
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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.
TEEN HORROR LLOYD-JONES EMILY
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Devils Unto Dust
by Emma Berquist
 
Willie must protect her younger siblings from the flesh-eating creatures surrounding her town and is forced to enter the dangerous desert to find her father when he steals from the most powerful man in town.
TEEN HORROR BERQUIST EMMA
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The Diviners
by Libba Bray

Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
TEEN SUPERNATURAL BRAY LIBBA
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His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined
by Dahlia Adler

An anthology of modern tales, written by leading young adult authors and inspired by favorite Edgar Allan Poe stories, includes Tiffany D. Jackson’s reimagining of “The Cask of Amontillado” and Stephanie Kuehn’s adaptation of “The Tell-Tale Heart."
TEEN HORROR HIS
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I Hunt Killers
by Barry Lyga

Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his father, but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer.
TEEN MYSTERY LYGA BARRY
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The Name of the Star
by Maureen Johnson

Rory, of Bénouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
TEEN MYSTERY JOHNSON MAUREEN
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There's Someone Inside Your House
by Stephanie Perkins

One year after moving to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, Makani Young is forced to confront dark secrets about her past in Hawaii when a serial killer begins to target her fellow high school students.
TEEN HORROR PERKINS STEPHANIE
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
by Michelle Hodkin

Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends, but after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes that uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.
TEEN FANTASY HODKIN MICHELLE
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The Wicked Deep
by Shea Ernshaw

Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge but Penny, seventeen, is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.
TEEN FANTASY ERNSHAW SHEA
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