Here are our favorite horror books for high school readers. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Within These Wicked Walls
by Lauren Blackwood
As a debtera, nineteen-year-old Andromeda performs exorcisms to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. When she agrees to work for handsome young heir Magnus Rochester, her job becomes truly terrifying.
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Man Made Monsters
by Andrea L. Rogers
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across centuries as they encounter predators of all kinds.
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
by Ryan Douglass
When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
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Lakesedge
by Lyndall Clipstone
When Leta and her younger brother Arien arrive at the haunted Lakesedge estate, they expect to find a monster. Leta knows the terrifying rumors about Rowan Sylvanan, who drowned his entire family when he was a boy. As Leta falls for Rowan, she discovers he is bound to the Lord Under, the sinister death god lurking in the black waters of the lake. Now, to save Rowan—and herself—Leta must confront the darkness in her past.
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White Smoke
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Believing her new home to actually be alive after her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won't be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all.
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The Weight of Blood
by Tiffany D. Jackson
While at Springville High's first integrated prom, Maddie, a constantly bullied biracial teenager, is tormented by her classmates until her secret is revealed - one that will cost them their lives.
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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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Gallant
by Victoria Schwab
Invited to return to Gallant, Olivia Prior finds herself in a crumbling manor riddled with secrets about her family, forcing her to decide whether to protect our world against the Master of the House or take her place beside him.
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Lally's Game
by Scott Cawthon
A forbidden artifact from her fiancé's past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. In the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay.
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The Book of Living Secrets
by Madeleine Roux
Excited to enter the world of a gothic romance they have been obsessed with for years, best friends Adelle and Connie are instead faced with unspeakable horrors and must rewrite their own ending to survive this nightmare.
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Horror Hotel
by Victoria Fulton
Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it, he turned her affliction into an internet sensation, with the help of Emmaline, the technology expert and Kiki, the presenter. Now they are planning to film an episode in an infamously, haunted hotel in Los Angeles, but they may be tackling something really dangerous because Chrissy is seeing the terrifying shadow man who started appearing to her when her mother was dying of cancer.
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Raising the Horseman
by Serena Valentino
Wanting nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow's superstitious celebrations after receiving her ancestor's diary, Kat van Tassel must uncover a 200-year-old secret that is shockingly linked to her own life in time to protect what she truly loves.
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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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Prom House
by Chelsea Mueller
Ten people are invited to share a prom house at the Jersey Shore for the weekend. Every one of them has a secret . . . and when one by one they begin to die, panic ensues. Could somebody's prom date also be . . . a killer?
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Even If We Break
by Marieke Nijkamp
A group of friends, bound together by years of history, embark on a visit to a cabin before dangerous secrets and unknown threats reveal a sinister plot that compromises their safety.
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Small Favors
by Erin A. Craig
When strange events plague the town of Amity Falls, Ellerie must race against time to save everyone she loves from creatures who offer to fulfill the residents’ deepest desires for just a small favor.
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And the Trees Crept In
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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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The Sacrifice Box
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Martin J. Stewart
Once united by a glorious summer spent together, five teenagers are haunted years later by a broken oath and an ancient ritual.
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There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie PerkinsWhen incrementally more violent attacks overshadow life at Osborne High, an intense hunt for the killer leads to the revelation of astonishing secrets.
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Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. But it's not a life Jane wants. When families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy...and the restless dead are the least of her problems.
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Frozen Charlotte by Alex BellMoving into her uncle's home after the death of her best friend, 15-year-old Sophie endures strict rules and is forbidden to talk about the loss of a young cousin before discovering terrible secrets about the house's past as a malevolent academy for girls.
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