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The Black Slide by J.W. Ocker book cover
The Black Slide
by J. W. Ocker

Something is wrong with the playground's new black slide. Nobody dares go on it - except for Griffen and his best friend Laila. Unfortunately their fears were well placed, and the accursed slide transports them to a nightmare world filled with bloodthirsty creatures. Will they be able to survive?
TEEN HORROR OCKER J.W.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman Book Cover
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman

Wishing for a better life, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door in her new home, emerging in a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own. Now she must challenge a gruesome entity to save herself, her family, and the souls of lost children!
TEEN HORROR NEIL GAIMAN
 
It Found Us by Lindsay Currie Book Cover
It Found Us
by Lindsay Currie

Hazel joined her brother and his friends for a game of hide-and-seek in the cemetery. There's just one problem - Everett, her brother's best friend, was  never found. Now Hazel must solve cryptic clues while dealing with a creepy ghost to find Everett before he's lost forever. 
TEEN HORROR CURRIE LINDSAY
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier Book Cover
The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier

Set during the mid-1800s, Irish orphans Molly and Kip travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house. While there, they must confront the mysterious Night Gardener, who harvests their nightmares to feed a great tree that grants wishes for a terrible price.
TEEN HORROR AUXIER JONATHAN
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy Book Cover
Skulduggery Pleasant
by Derek Landy

When a not-so-innocent twelve-year-old girl named Stephanie inherits her eccentric uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from an ancient evil. 
TEEN SERIES SKULDUGGERY
Small Spaces by Katherine Arden Book Cover
Small Spaces
by Katherine Arden

Ollie’s field trip was going perfectly normally until her bus mysteriously broke down. Now Ollie must go toe-to-toe with the Smiling Man, a creature straight out of a book she found. Will Ollie be able to save herself and her classmates, or will she make a bargain with the spectre to ease her own pain?
TEEN HORROR ARDEN KATHERINE
This Appearing House by Ally Malinenko book cover
This Appearing House
by Ally Malinenko

On the five year anniversary of Jac's cancer diagnosis, a strange house appears from seemingly nowhere. Jac and her friend venture in on a dare and soon find themselves trapped, and the only way they can escape is by facing nightmares sprung forth from their own fears!
TEEN HORROR MALINENJO ALLY
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll Book Cover
Through the Woods
by Emily Carroll

Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection of fairytales gone seriously wrong.
TEEN GRAPHIC HORROR CARROLL EMILY
Grades 10-12
To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames book cover
To Break a Covenant
by Alison Ames

Clem and her best friend, Nina, live in the haunted town of Moon Basin, known for its accidents and murders that are linked to a now-abandoned coal mine. When they join their new friend Piper and her dad on a trip into the mine, something follows them out - and now it won't leave them, or the town, alone.
TEEN HORROR AMES ALISON
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare book cover
Clown in a Cornfield
by Adam Cesare

After her dad moves them to Kettle Springs for her senior year, Quinn resolves to keep her head down through graduation. But all is not well in this small town - when the old corn syrup factory closed down, it divided the adults and teens of the community. Now Quinn is caught in a dispute between tradition and progress, and after a parade turns disastrous the towns defunct mascot, Frendo the Clown, makes a homicidal appearance.
TEEN HORROR CESARE ADAM
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould book cover
The Dead and the Dark
by Courtney Gould

Filming for her dads' paranormal TV show finds Logan in Snakebite, Oregon. She thinks this is just another stop in her constantly changing life, but when teenagers start turning up dead it's clear something sinister is lurking in the town. Now Logan and her new friend Ashley have to find out - are these deaths supernatural, or are the people of Snakebite the real terrors?
TEEN HORROR GOULD COURTNEY
The Gathering Dark, edited by Tori Bovalino book cover
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
by Tori Bovalino

Hauntings and a variety of horrifying secrets lurk in the places we once called home. This collection of terrifying tales is a great introduction to folk horror, where sinister evils come from your own backyard.
TEEN HORROR GATHERING
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew White book cover
Hell Followed With Us
by Andrew Joseph White

Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him and planted a bioweapon in his blood. He is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. At first it seems all of Benji's dreams have come true - until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.
TEEN HORROR WHITE ANDREW
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala book cover
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. Once there, he finds that not even his mind is safe as he is drawn to the Honeys, a group of beautiful—and terrifying—girls.
TEEN HORROR LA SALA RYAN
How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine book cover
How to Survive Your Murder
by Danielle Valentine

Knocked out before she can testify against the man suspected of killing her sister Claire, Alice wakes up a year earlier, on the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and the bring real killer to justice.
TEEN HORROR VALENTINE DANIELLE
The Initital Insult by Mindy McGinnis book cover
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. While the party upstairs rages on, she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows in this modern re-imagining of Edgar Allen Poe's classic tale, The Cask of Amontillado.
TEEN HORROR MCGINNIS MINDY
Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman book cover
Into the Sublime
by Kate A. Boorman

Four girls from a defunct thrill-seeking group descend into a dangerous underground cave system in search of a mystical power. In order to claim this power they must face their deepest fears, and when only three of the girls make it back to the surface there's some explaining to do... 
TEEN HORROR BOORMAN KATE
Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams book cover
Mirror Girls
by Kelly McWilliams

Set in the 1950s, biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
TEEN HORROR MCWILLIAMS KELLY
Never Coming Home by Kate Williams book cover
Never Coming Home
by Kate Williams

Chosen to be the first to experience a mysterious new resort on Unknown Island, 10 elite influencers soon discover the vacation has been arranged by someone who wants to make sure they don't get off the island alive. They all want to escape the island, but when everyone is hiding secrets who can be trusted?
TEEN HORROR WILLAIMS KATE
Our Shadows Have Claws, edited by Yamile Saied Méndez book cover
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
by Yamile Saied Méndez
 
This short story collection features the most fearsome monsters from Latin American mythos. Shapeshifters, zombies, vampires, and more await in this terrifying tome.
TEEN HORROR OUR
The Sacrifice by Rin Chupico book cover
The Sacrifice
by Rin Chupeco

When a Hollywood film crew begins to work on the island of Kisapmata, they ignore the warnings that the island is cursed. Only Alon, a local Filipino teen, is willing to guide them there, and once crew members start to die Alon is the only one who can make the survivors turn back - before it's too late.
TEEN HORROR CHUPECO RIN
She is a Haunting by Trang Tranh Tran book cover
She is a Haunting
by Trang Thanh Tran

Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn spends the summer in Vietnam with her estranged father, who is fixing up an old colonial house. She thought dealing with her father would be the most of her troubles, but she didn't account for ghosts or a house that doesn't want her family to leave... ever!
TEEN HORROR TRAN TRANG
The Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham book cover
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. Things are going great, until someone drugs attending ghouls and reawakens their hunger for flesh. The girls must work together to stop the carnage before succumbing to it themselves.
TEEN HORROR COTTINGHAM KAYLA
Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne book cover
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. 
TEEN HORROR KILCOYNE ELIZABETH
We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado book cover
We Don't Swim Here
by Vincent Tirado

In rural Hillwoods, nobody swims. This doesn't sit right with Bronwyn, who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer. She's in town visiting her sick Grandmother, and nobody will answer her questions - not even her cousin, Anais. But what Bronwyn doesn't know is that in this town the living aren't the only dangers present. When she does more exploring than she should, both girls are in for more trouble than they bargained for.
TEEN HORROR TIRADO VINCENT
What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell book cover
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. They make their second mistake when they enter a giant corn maze. This is also their third, fourth, and fifth - and they just keep making it. When they find their own dead bodies around a corner, they quickly realized they've been here before - and it did not end well. Hunted by an unseen and unknown force, they will find their friendship and their minds tested in this trippy supernatural thriller.
TEEN HORROR HOLLOWELL SARAH
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron book cover
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
by Kalynn Bayron

Charity works at a horror simulation camp, and she has the honor and privilige of playing the Final Girl. But when blood splatters for real, Charity finds herself as the star of an actual slasher film - and not even her Final Girl status will keep her safe.
TEEN HORROR BAYRON KALYNN
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