HORROR and SUSPENSE NOVELS for TEENS
Anderson,
M. T. Thirsty.
From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human
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Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Demon in my View.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.
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Shattered Mirror
Midnight Predator
Hawksong
Black, Holly. Tithe: A Modern Fairy Tale.
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes.
It all begins when a lightning rod salesman appears one evening and insists that Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade take one of his contraptions covered with mystical protection symbols. Later, the boys look on as an eerie carnival rolls into town, and mysterious and sinister events take place. But what they witness on the carousel is enough to send them running.
Bray, Libba. A Great and Terrible Beauty.
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see the spirit world.
Colfer, Eoin. The Supernaturalist.
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasires that are invisible to most humans.
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Cooney, Caroline. The Face on the Milk Carton.
This fast-paced series about a kidnapped girl whose real family wants her back will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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The Voice on the Radio
What Janie Found
Cormier, Robert. Tenderness.
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
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I Am the Cheese
The Rag and Bone Shop
Dahl, Roald. The Umbrella Man and other Stories.
How much would you pay for revenge? Would you stake a bet on your little finger – or on your daughter’s hand in marriage. Here are thirteen tales of horror and hilarity from one of the world’s greatest storytellers.
Duncan, Lois. I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
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Don’t Look Behind You
Killing Mr. Griffin
Locked in Time
Stranger with My Face
The Third Eye
The Twisted Window
Giles, Gail. Shattering Glass.
When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.
Golden, Christopher. Straight on Til Morning.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for Me by Moonlight.
Lonely and unsure of her place in her father’s new family, Cynda is responsive to the attentiveness of the mysterious and sophisticated Vincent Morthanos, who turns out to be a vampire.
Hamilton, Virginia. The House of Dies Drear.
A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Hautmann, Pete. Mr. Was.
In this mysterious thriller, Jack Lund finds a door that leads into the past, escaping there when his alcoholic father brutally murders his mother.
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Sweetblood.
Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
A schoolteacher takes on a dare to watch for the headless horseman to impress a girl.
Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate.
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
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Mahy, Margaret. The Changeover.
When her younger brother is possessed by an evil spirit, Laura seeks the help of a compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Whispers from the Dead.
After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.
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Don’t Scream
In the Face of Danger
Name of the Game was Murder
Nightmare
The Weekend was Murder
Peck, Richard. Voices after Midnight.
Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery involving the former tenants of the house when the two brothers slip back in time to 1888.
Pierce, Meredith Ann. The Darkangel.
The servant girl Aeriel must choose bewteen destroying her vampie master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him.
Plum-Ucci, Carol. The Body of Christopher Creed.
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
Sleator, William. House of Stairs.
Five fifteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.
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The Boxes
The Spirit House
Stewart, Sharon. City of the Dead.
These spine-tingling tales lead to the hazy middle ground between reality and imagination, shadow and light, science and superstition. They stratch at the surface of fear and challenge preconceptions about what is real.
Vande Velde, Vivian. Being Dead: Stories.
They have unfinished business with the living – last dances to dance, old promises to keep…Seven deliciously creepy stories about seven haunted souls.
Werlin, Nancy. The Killer’s Cousin.
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.
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Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Boy in the Burning House.
Part mystery, part psychological thriller, Wynne-Jones has written a novel that is emotionally compelling, fast-paced, terrifying and clever.
Zindel,Paul. The Doom Stone.
A bloodthirsty evil monster, controlled by the doom stone, is stalking the moors around Stonehenge when fifteen-year-old Jackson arrives to visit his aunt Sarah at her latest archaeological dig in the area.
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Loch
Raptor
Rats